Bus Monitor; Transportation Dept

Job Summary

This position assists the bus driver in maintaining a clean, orderly and safe environment while transporting students with disabilities.

• Assists the school bus driver in all aspects of on-board duties
• Helps drivers maintain the planned route path
• Ensures that students safely embark and disembark from the school bus (To include helping them across the street or roadway)
• Ensures that students disembark at the correct stop
• Properly secures wheelchairs
• Properly utilizes CRSs (Child Restraint Systems)
• Assists drivers when loading and unloading non-ambulatory students
• Performs basic first aid
• Keeps the inside of bus clean
• Ensures that all safety related equipment is kept clean and stored properly
• Other duties as defined by the Director of Transportation or their designee

• No supervisory responsibilities

• High School graduate or equivalent

• Experience working with Special Needs students

• Ability to work compassionately and patiently with students with disabilities
• Ability to follow directions
• Ability to communicate in a polite and professional manner with students, co-workers, parents, and school staff members
• Ability to physically move students in wheelchairs
• Extensive knowledge of proper emergency bus evacuation procedures
• Extensive knowledge of planned routes, runs, and assigned stop locations
• First aid and CPR training required as part of the duties
• Ability to physically remove students from a disabled bus
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in regards to student information
• Ability to properly operate wheelchair securement and child restraint equipment
• Ability to comprehend and understand the manifested disabilities of students with special needs
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
• Ability to be regularly, predictably and reliably at work
• Ability to perform routine physical activities that are required to fulfill job responsibilities