Bus Monitor

Assists with the safety, movement, management and care of students with special needs while on a bus. Partners with the assigned driver to provide appropriate transportation services for students.

• Assists the bus driver in managing student behaviors on the bus.
• Assists students with loading/unloading the school bus.
• Ensures responsible adults meet students leaving the bus.
• Operates equipment, including wheelchairs, tie-downs, seat belts, safety vests, safety restraint systems, mechanical lifts and other adaptive equipment as necessary.
• Assists driver in ensuring seat belts, safety restraint systems and wheel chair securement straps are secured as required.
• Provides written records of any incident that occurs on the bus to the supervisor.
• Is alert to conditions in the loading and unloading area which present a danger to students.
• Ensures students are appropriately secured in bus.
• Required to attend all meetings as directed by transportation staff and meetings scheduled by schools pertaining to position.
• Maintains current knowledge of emergency evacuation procedures.
• Properly assists and cleans body fluids as necessary.
• Assists the bus driver in cleaning and disinfecting the bus interior and with the removal of trash and litter daily.
• Performs related duties as assigned.