This is companionship work with mentally retarded children. Work involves establishing close relationships with assigned children while engaging them in play, talk, walks, and related activities. Employees of this class conduct rudimentary adjunctive therapy activities, usually with one child at a time.
Work performance is reviewed by a superior.
They are often physically removed from their supervisor and subject to only periodic checks. Where the employee is confronted with a variety of duties susceptible to different methods of solution which, in turn, places a correspondingly higher demand upon resourcefulness and concentration. Positions which require the analysis and evaluation of raw data and the rendering of conclusions would, in many instances, fall into this category. This level involves simple analysis of data, identification of easily distinguishable facts and recognition of differences in related situations. Workers at this level exercise limited independent judgment in determining methods or procedures to be used in making minor decisions.