I am a substitute health aide. My job is to assist the nurse in the office and administer first aid, document, take vitals etc of everyone who walks in, sign sick kids out and make sure they go with a guardian, give any instructions etc (yes, I have training in cpr and first aid)
I use a specific app to book jobs, as well as accept jobs through my dept. please note, I do not work for any schools. I work for a specific dept called special services. They pay me. Schools do not. My pay comes out of the SS budget, not any schools budget.
Anyways, I accept a job on the app because it popped up, and I go to work like usual, wearing scrubs and all because I’m suppose to only be working in the nurses office.
Well, I get there and find out I’m going to be a 1:1 special education aide. I do my job and leave. I then call hr to ask if this is something that I’m supposed to even be doing in the first place and I get told no, my job is to work in the nurses office and that’s it. She said she will call the building to tell them not to do this to people.
I got lucky, the kid only needed help opening doors or moving chairs so he could roll up (wheelchair bound).
I could have left and said no, this is not my job but I needed the money.
Apparently the confusion is because up until 2 years ago, health aides also acted as 1:1 aides. It I was hired only two or three weeks ago for this position, having worked in healthcare before and for the district itself last year.
They also went about the wrong way for paying me too but hr said it’s ok and they’ll fix it.