Bus Aide

Position:       Bus Aide    (Part-Time)

Location:      Transportation Department

Reports To:  Director of Transportation

Wage:           $17.82 per hour     

Schedule:     School Year Position up to 28.75 hours per week

Start Date:   As available

Position Summary

Bus Aides ensure the safe transportation of bus patrons and special needs students.  Bus aides are required to work a morning and afternoon shift each day.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Ensures safe transportation of bus patrons and special needs passengers
• Complies with all applicable safety requirements, laws, and regulations
• Completes daily safety checks of the bus
• Assists the driver with keeping the bus clean inside
• Notifies the Transportation Director of any safety or maintenance concerns
• Communicates positively with bus students and parents of Special Needs passengers
• Ensures appropriate, positive guidance to children
• Attends training and staff meetings as required
• Other duties as assigned

Employment Qualifications

• EDUCATION: This position requires a high school diploma or general education degree (G.E.D.). 
• EXPERIENCE:  Previous experience working with special needs students is preferred, but not required.
• SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: No supervisory responsibilities 

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Required:

• Ability to lift to 50 lbs. to provide passenger assistance including but not limited to boarding and deboarding, transfers from seat to seat, package handling, assistance to visually impaired and others with varying disabilities, etc.
• Basic written and verbal communication skills
• Must be willing to gain CPR training and certification
• Good time management and organizational skills
• Ability to read and follow instructions
• Must present a neat and clean appearance at all times
• Ability to sit for long periods while aiding students on the bus
• Satisfactory criminal history check

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, talk, and hear. 
• The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision, and the ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration when driving the bus.
• Must be able to open the emergency doors and exit the bus from the emergency exit
• Must be able to bend, support, and otherwise physically carry a student/passenger/rider/ into and out of a school bus, especially in the case of an emergency
• Must be able to bend, stretch, pull, or drag all students/passengers/riders, equipment, or other types of articles that would be of varying sizes and weights out of the emergency exits on demand
• Must be able to bend, twist, and stretch for the cleaning and securing of equipment in the interior of the bus

Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.