Policy 5:30
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 opportunity and minority recruitment. The
Superintendent is responsible for recruiting personnel, and making
hiring recommendations to the Board. The Superintendent may select
personnel on a short term basis for a specific project or emergency
condition before the Board’s approval. No individual will be employed
who has been convicted of a criminal offense listed in Section 5/21B-80
of the School Code.
All applicants must complete a District application form in order to be considered for employment.
Job Descriptions
The Superintendent 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 fingerprint-based
criminal history records check and a check of the Statewide Sex Offender
Database and Violent Offender Against Youth Database is performed on
each applicant as required by State law. The Superintendent or designee
shall notify an applicant if the applicant is identified in either
database. The School Code requires the Board President to keep a
conviction record confidential and share it only with the Superintendent
or designee, Regional Superintendent, State Superintendent, State
Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, or any other person necessary
to the hiring decision, or for purposes of clarifying the information,
the Department of State Police and/or Statewide Sex Offender Database.
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 Section 5/21B-80
of the School Code or who falsifies, or omits facts from, his or her
employment application or other employment documents.
The Superintendent shall ensure that the District does not engage in
any investigation or inquiry prohibited by law and complies with each of
the following:
- The District uses an applicant’s credit history or report from a
consumer reporting agency only when a satisfactory credit history is an
established bona fide occupational requirement of a particular position.
- The District does not ask an applicant or applicant’s previous
employers about claim(s) made or benefit(s) received under the Workers’
Compensation Act.
- The District does not request of an applicant or employee access in
any manner to his or her social networking website, including a request
for passwords to such sites.
- The District provides equal employment opportunities to all persons.
See Policy 5:10, Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority Recruitment.
Physical Examinations
New employees must furnish evidence of physical fitness to perform
assigned duties and freedom from communicable disease. All physical
fitness examinations 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 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. The employee must
have the physical examination performed no more than 90 days before
submitting evidence of it to the District.
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 District
will pay the expenses of any such examination.
Orientation Program
The District’s staff will provide an orientation program for new
employees to acquaint them with the District’s policies and procedures,
the school’s rules and regulations, and the responsibilities of their
position. Before beginning employment, each employee must sign the Acknowledgement of Mandated Reporter Status form as provided in Policy 5:90, Abused and Neglected Child Reporting
Adopted: November 10, 1997
Revised: February 20, 2007, February 23, 2015