Job Description: Bus Aide

SUMMARY:

Position : Bus Aide

Description : The position provides support within the student transportation services area, with specific responsibilities for ensuring students are safely, efficiently, and timely transported over scheduled routes and/or to/from special excursions and ensuring students' safety during transport, loading, and unloading from buses.

Reports to : Transportation Supervisor

Department : Transportation

Job type : Part-time

Classification : Non-Exempt

Calendar Type : 10 Month (Calendar 1). Summer work may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A High School Diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Job-related experience is preferred.
• First Aide/CPR is preferred
• Training in special needs is preferred
• Required Testing: Pre-employment Physical Exam
• Clearances: Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background and Family Care Safety Registry Clearance
• Continuing Educ. / Training: School Required Behavior Management; CPR/First Aide; Attend All Required In-Service Training

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ability to assist students by providing safe loading and unloading from buses during normal transport and emergency situations.

• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with teachers, administrators, parents, and other staff members to implement safe riding habits, behavior, and bus plans for students.

• Ability to properly restrain students following school procedures if required.

• Ability to work with students and encourage, train, and reinforce appropriate behavior and safe riding.

• Ability to adapt to changes and behaviors to meet the student’s needs.

• Ability to interact positively with students and model appropriate behavior.

• Ability to provide escort and assistance to students as necessary.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of student records and other information shared about students.

• Attend unit meetings, in-service training, workshops, etc., for the purpose of gathering information required to perform job functions.

• Redirect students for the purpose of enforcing rules/regulations and maintaining student safety and wellbeing.

• Monitor and supervise students until released to a teacher, instructional assistant, parent, etc., to ensure the safe transportation of all passengers.

• Prepares reports (e.g., incident reports, passenger conduct, etc.) to document activities, provide written references, convey information, and/or comply with established guidelines.

• Report observations and/or incidents (e.g., discipline, accidents, inappropriate social behavior, etc.) to communicate information to appropriate personnel for their action.

• Ability to be flexible in changing assignments and duties with little to no notice.

• Ability to work with students with behavioral, medical, ambulatory, and other special needs.

• Ability to work with daily stressors such as inappropriate verbal and physical behaviors.

• Ability to operate specialized equipment such as wheelchair lifts.

• Ability to inspect and utilize various child safety restraint systems (CSRS), including wheelchair securements.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to communicate effectively in both written and oral forms with all levels of management, both internal and external to the district.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective internal and external working relationships with the
• Ability to perform multiple tasks with a potential need to upgrade skills to meet changing job conditions.
• Specific skill-based competencies required to perform the functions of the job satisfactorily include:
  • Adhering to safety practices
  • Implementation of behavior management and de-escalation techniques
  • Preparing and maintaining accurate records
  • Operating equipment used in transporting students
  • Administering first aid
  • Applying pertinent codes, policies, regulations, and/or laws
  • Use of special equipment such as: fire; extinguisher, two-way radio, and standard office equipment
  • Preparing and maintaining accurate records.

• Required to perform basic math
• Understand written procedures
• Write routine documents, speak clearly, and solve practical problems
• Specific knowledge-based competencies required to perform the functions of the job satisfactorily include:
  • Safety practices and procedures
  • Emergency evacuation techniques

• • First aid, health standards, and hazards

• Utilization of special equipment such as wheelchairs, tie-downs, CSRS, child safety seats, lifts, etc.

• Required to schedule activities and/or meetings
• Gather and/or collate data and use job-related equipment
• Flexibility is required to work with others in a wide variety of circumstances
• Work with data utilizing specific, defined processes and operate equipment using standardized methods.
• Ability is also required to work with a wide diversity of individuals
• Work with similar types of data and utilize a variety of job-related equipment.
• Problem-solving is required to analyze issues and create action plans
• Problem solving with data requires following prescribed guidelines; and problem solving with equipment is moderate.
• Specific ability-based competencies required to perform the functions of the job satisfactorily include:
  • Communicating with diverse groups
  • Maintaining confidentiality
  • Working as part of a team.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions require the following physical demands:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, and hear.
• The employee is regularly required to do significant lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; some climbing and balancing; frequent stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling; significant fine finger dexterity; and sense of smell.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds and occasionally up to 100 pounds. The employee is required to move about a moving vehicle to meet the needs of the students, requiring the ability to balance and coordinate movements.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, the ability to adjust focus, and significant fine finger dexterity.
• Generally, the job requires 75% sitting, 15% walking, 5% standing, and 5% crouching/kneeling.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and vibration.
• The employee is exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements, physical demands, work conditions and environment listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.