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Seeking Health Occupations Youth Apprenticeship (HOYA) HOYA 1 Instructor for 11^th/12^th grade students for 2024-2025 school year, full time in Freeport, IL. Salary: $51,156 - $57,771 commensurate with experience and education. Nine-and-one-half month position that follows the Freeport (IL) High School calendar

Duties

• Provide leadership for activities which achieve completion of IDPH BNATP objectives
• Develop, implement, and evaluate a multi-skilled, performance-based Career Pathways Health Occupations Youth Apprenticeship (HOYA) program
• Instruct and coordinate educational and work-based experiences for students
• Foster partnerships and serve as liaison between educators, community, and business partners
• Assist in recruitment of program participants
• Prepare and maintain reports as required for the project program
• Participate in those activities most likely to lead to continued professional growth in leadership of the project program
• Identify and define local job opportunities and the role of the project program in meeting these opportunities
• Provide a variety of job shadowing activities for HOYA 1 students with feedback from the students and business partners
• Work in tandem with the program coordinator, director, and other department members to provide a consistent program for all HOYA students
• Participate in student clinical rotations by working additional hours outside of normal class days at various facilities in the area

Qualifications

Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:

• Active Illinois RN licensure
• Bachelor of Science degree preferred
• Eligible for certification as a CNA Instructor/Trainer as required by IDPH
  • 2 years nursing experience with at least one year of providing care to geriatric or chronically ill adults as in long-term care nursing.
  • BSN degree or Train the Trainer program completion
• 2,000 hours work experience in specific CIP-related code (Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Assistant/Aide)
• CPR Instructor Certification
• Experience as an educator or health education position
• Good communication and writing skills, experience using Microsoft Office
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, including flexibility and adaptability

Salary/Benefits

$51,156 - $57,771 (includes TRS; commensurate with experience and education) and health benefits.

Additional Notes

Nine-and-one-half month position that follows the Freeport (IL) High School calendar

How to Apply

Email Brian.Greene@fsd145.org or mail a letter of interest, résumé and two letters of reference to: Brian Greene, System Director, CareerTEC, 2037 W. Galena Ave., Freeport, IL  61032

In the second half of March, students focused on cooking with fruit as well as other advanced baking concepts. Recipes included banana cream pie and strawberry shortcake. Students also began attending job shadows in March, providing them a valuable opportunity to learn from individuals and businesses in the food service industry. In April, students have practiced appetizer and hors d'oeuvres preparation, including recipes such as crab rangoons and teriyaki meatballs. Additionally, students have begun preparing for the Mock Restaurant event, which will take place in the second week of May. Each student will be encouraged to invite two family members to attend the Mock Restaurant and will be served a three course meal, prepared to order entirely by students.

The first year students have been job shadowing (JS) on Friday’s and will continue until the end of the school year. Students have been welcomed by the community in the following areas: accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, real estate, project management, banking, investing, and marketing just to name a handful. 

The goal of shadowing is to help students learn about various career paths in an effort to solidify their choice or perhaps remove it as an option. Therefore, saving them time and money in the future. The academic end of JS includes students polishing their communication skills in a variety of ways: using proper email etiquette with their mentors, researching and writing pre-job shadowing memos, post JS thank you letters, and making PowerPoint presentations to share with the class about each experience. 

Often, students find a business they would like to intern for. This year, I’m thrilled that 15 of the current juniors have chosen to take the second year of the program which means having an internship next school year. In fact, some begin in May of the current year. It is my sincere belief that having an internship elevates the student from other students; in particular, when “selling” yourself to colleges and trying to obtain scholarships. The internship is also dual credit which is an added plus! 

Students are still competing in the Stock Market Game which concludes mid-May with the completion of team portfolios, presentations, and evaluations. Lastly, thank you to the area businesses for supporting our CIB program! This is an immeasurable experience for the students and we are always very appreciative.

The students are halfway through clinicals and practicing their hands on skills with residents. In the past month they learned about dementia and Alzheimer's disease. They also made fake urine and stool samples using food ingredients as part of the elimination chapter. Doug Toepfer from FHN finished up his presentations for  emergency preparedness and management. Jose Hernandez got the opportunity to fully experience what wearing a hazmat suit feels like. The students are currently learning about mental illness and preparing skits and videos of various mental disorders. The next topics will be death and dying followed by self care.

CIS1 students are developing a deeper understanding of software as we are now installing Windows and Linux Operating Systems on the computers that they have been building.  This also helps them to differentiate between primary and secondary storage.  The students continue to learn how to apply their troubleshooting algorithm(abstraction) to real world experiences.  We will be spending more time this month utilizing abstractions to solve hardware problems with the different tools that come with the OS software.

 CIS2 continues on with the IP camera project, they have received and updated the new switch.  They have gone through the application layer of the OSI model and done a basic review of the initial switching configurations.  This month we are going deeper into switching concepts.  The students will become more familiar with the frame structure and how to tag the frames to control the flow of the packet switched network  at layer 2 of the OSI model

The HOYA II students  are on the downhill slide before they reach the ultimate goal post of high school graduation!! They are keeping extremely busy and avoiding the plague of senioritis. I am confident that these young adults will maintain their focus even as the weather gets warmer and graduation creeps closer.  

HOYA 2 will continue to use their critical thinking skills by doing situational assignments where they interact as CNAs and potential healthcare professionals via their online workbook. This allows a much more accurate illustration of what they can expect as they progress through their career paths.   

A few of the student group have completed their Leadership/Teaching assignments. They worked with local  elementary teachers and educated students in the 5th grade or lower on a healthcare subject. So far, students have taught proper teeth brushing and cardiovascular system. The younger generation of future HOYA students were taught where their radial pulse was located. They were also taught how exercise affects their heart rate by completing 30 seconds of jumping jacks and measuring their heart rate rate via their radial pulse.  The remaining groups will complete the Leadership/Teaching assignment this month.   

As teaching others is extremely important in any healthcare provider's profession, our students are working diligently on their team teaching projects to encompass the Medical Terminology of body systems this semester. These lessons include the pathology of specific disease processes, medical specialties and diagnostic tools that deal with those processes, as well as looking into some rare diseases they may encounter.  The students have found some interactive games to help with these teaching projects.  

Here’s to finishing April without any additional “snow days”. 

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