Sterling Schools CUSD #5 5.30
General Personnel
Hiring Process
and Criteria
The district
hires the most qualified personnel consistent with budget and staffing
requirements and in compliance with School Board policy on equal employment
opportunities and minority recruitment. The Superintendent or a designee
is responsible for recruiting personnel, in compliance with Board of Education
policy, and making hiring recommendations to the Board of Education. The Superintendent or a designee may select
personnel on a short-term basis for a specific project or emergency conditions
before the Board of Education's approval.
No individual will be employed who has been convicted of a criminal offense
listed in Section 5/10-21(c) of the School Code.
All applicants
must complete a District application form in order to be considered for
employment.
Job Descriptions
The
Superintendent or a designee shall develop and maintain a current,
comprehensive job description for each position or job category, however a
provision in a collective bargaining agreement or individual contract will
control in the event of a conflict.
Investigations
The
Superintendent or designee shall ensure that a finger-based criminal history
records check and a check of the Statewide Sex Offender Database and Violent
Offender Against Youth Database (when available) are
performed on each applicant as required by State law. The Superintendent or designee shall notify
an applicant if the applicant is identified in the Database. The Board President will keep a conviction record
confidential and share it only with the Superintendent, Regional
Superintendent, State Superintendent, State Teacher Certification Board, and
any other person necessary to the hiring decision.
Each newly hired
employee must complete an Immigration and Naturalization Service Form as
required by federal law.
The District
retains the right to discharge any employee whose criminal background
investigation reveals a conviction for committing or attempting to commit any
of the offenses outlined in §10-21.9 of the School Code or who falsifies, or
omits facts from, his or her employment application or other employment
documents.
Physical
Examinations
New employees
must furnish evidence of physical fitness to perform assigned duties and
freedom from communicable disease, including tuberculosis. All physical fitness examinations and tests
for tuberculosis must be performed by a physician licensed in Illinois, or any
other state, to practice medicine and surgery in any of its branches, or an
advanced practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a
collaborating physician that authorized the advanced practice nurse to perform
health examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority
by his or her supervising physician to perform health examinations. The employee must have the physical
examination and tuberculin test no more than 90 days before submitting evidence
of same to the School Board.
Any employee may
be required to have an additional examination by a physician who is licensed in
Illinois to practice medicine and surgery in all its branches, or an advanced
practice nurse who has a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating
physician that authorizes the advanced practice nurse to perform health
examinations, or a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority by
his or her supervising physician to perform health examinations, if the
examination is job-related and consistent with business necessity The Board of Education will pay the expenses
of any such examination.
Orientation
Program
Please refer to
the "Agreement Between the Board of Education Community Unit School
District No. 5 and the Sterling Education Association."
For employees not
covered by this agreement, the District's staff will provide an orientation
program for new employees to acquaint them with the District's policies and
procedures, their school's rules and regulations, and the responsibilities of
their position.
LEGAL REF.: Americans With Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §
12112, 29 C.F.R. Part 1630.
Immigration Reform and Control Act, 8 U.S.C.
§ 1324a et seq.
105 ILCS 5/10-20.7, 5/10-21.4, 5/10-21.9,
5/10-22.34, 5/10-22.34b, 5/22-6.5, and 5/24-5.
Duldulao v. St. Mary of
Kaiser v.
Molitor v. Chicago Title & Trust Co., 59
N.E.2d 695 (5th
CROSS REF.: 3.50, 5.10, 5.40, 5.280
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