Bus Assistant - Transportation East
Job description
Non-Exempt
COMPENSATION SCHEDULE:
Link to https://www.cherrycreekschools.org/Page/2906
Educational Support Personnel Compensation
Para-Educator
PAY GRADE:
Range 3
BENEFITS:
Our employee benefits package includes medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, long term disability, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance. Visit our website for full details.
SUPERVISOR:
Supervisor or designee.
SUMMARY:
Collaborate with bus drivers by monitoring and assisting students with special needs to ensure safe, efficient, courteous, and customer-service oriented experience for students, parents, and staff.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide emotional and behavioral support and physically assist students with a variety of special needs and disabilities with entering/exiting the bus, walking, sitting, securements, backpacks, etc. Use a variety of equipment to ensure students are safely and comfortably secured. May include but not limited to: wheelchair lifts, securements, vests, seatbelts, integrated seats, etc. [Daily, 20%]
- Safely secure wheelchairs on board the bus without compromising wheelchair structure. Identify and execute emergency release mechanism if necessary. Properly adjust a student’s safety vest and its attachments and properly position student adjustments of wheelchair and car seats. Maintain and replace District equipment as needed. [Daily, 20%]
- Perform pre- and post-trip vehicle inspections with the bus driver. [Daily, 5%]
- Clean up and properly dispose of body fluids in a designated disposal site. Safely clean and sanitize windows, seats, floor, seat belts, and tie-downs. [Daily, 5%]
- Communicate student information to the bus driver, parents/guardians, and/or teachers when needed. Prepare and submit all required records and reports in a timely and acceptable manner. Maintain the students’ emergency card book that contains confidential information. [Daily, 5%]
- Collaborate with the bus driver to formulate an emergency evacuation plan. Execute emergency evacuation procedures if necessary, which may include stopping and securing the vehicle in the event the bus driver is incapacitated, and utilizing bus equipment including but not limited to the bus radio, emergency signal lights, first aid kit, and fire extinguisher. Read maps of area and know route directions to assist any substitute bus driver. Work as a team with the bus driver to best service the affected student(s) while confined to small spaces. [Monthly, 5%]
- Maintain all required certifications and participate in regularly scheduled training meetings. [Annually, 1%]
- Perform other related duties as assigned or requested. [Daily, 4%]
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- No experience required.
- Intermediate English language skills.
- Intermediate oral and written communication skills.
- Intermediate interpersonal relations skills.
- Intermediate organizational skills.
- Ability to consistently report for scheduled work.
- Ability to learn and master skills related to transporting students with special needs.
- Ability to diffuse and manage stressful situations.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job.
- Ability to demonstrate emotional stability with challenging situations.
- Ability to work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours.
- Ability to work in existing and varying weather conditions.
- Ability to maneuver heavy wheelchairs (manual and electric) that total weight up to 800 pounds.
REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, AND REGISTRATIONS:
All certifications, licenses, and registrations must be valid and unexpired.
- CPR and First Aid certifications within 90 days of hire.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Associate’s degree.
• Experience working with school age children.
• Experience working with in a special education environment.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Frequent bending, reaching, squatting and climbing.
- Eye/hand coordination.
- Visual concentration.
- Concentrated reading/writing/mathematics.
- Ability to work alone and with others.
- Prolonged standing and walking.
- Squatting.
- Overhead work.
- Occasional lifting, pulling, and/or pushing.
- Normal school district environment.
- Work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours.
- Work in any existing weather conditions.
- Work requires maneuvering heavy wheelchairs (manual and electric) that total weight up to 800 pounds – student/chair combined up ramps, over curbs, and around the inside of a bus.
Last Updated: 2020/2021
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