EC Instructional Assistant​/Bus Driver

Job Summary

Starting Date: Aug 17, 2026

This position supports disabled students in a permanent role, providing physical, academic, and emotional support to help them achieve their IEP goals and participate fully in the Exceptional Children’s program.

• Assist classroom teachers with specific instructional and behavioral tasks to enhance student outcomes.
• Work with individuals, small groups, or large groups as assigned.
• Collect and record data for behavior modification plans and implement behavior plans.
• Accompany students to assigned locations, lunch, transitions, and buses as needed.
• Provide personal care assistance (restroom, hygiene, diapering, toileting, wash‑up routines).
• Administer immediate first aid and medical assistance per healthcare professional guidance.
• Collaborate with occupational and physical therapists to implement IEP‑specified equipment and interventions.
• Move and operate adaptive equipment; assist students with electronic communications and devices.
• Assist with mobility needs: lifting, positioning, wheelchair transfers, bus loading/unloading, transportation around school and on field trips.
• Monitor students during assigned periods in various school environments to maintain a safe and positive learning environment.
• Provide programmed practice activities and repetitions developed by the teacher, therapist, or pathologist.
• Perform clerical tasks (copying, filing, collating) to support instructional preparation.
• Follow the daily schedule outlined by teacher and administrator.
• Maintain confidentiality of student and school personnel information.
• Create a pleasant and orderly classroom environment; maintain records and files.
• Drive a school bus route when required.
• Perform any other duties as directed by the supervisor.

Associate's Degree or 48 approved semester hours from a regionally accredited institution.

Clearance, criminal background check, and references required.

Bus Driver:
Must obtain and maintain a bus certification and license to drive a morning or evening route.

• Willingness to seek and maintain bus license.
• Potential to serve as a substitute bus monitor.
• Possible requirement to attend and obtain CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training and renewal.
• Empathetic attitude toward disabled students.
• Cooperative, positive teamwork approach.
• Willingness to learn specialized instructional and management techniques.
• Effective communication and relationship building with students, parents, and staff; maintaining confidentiality.
• Ability to follow detailed written and oral instructions.
• Ability to drive a school bus (required).

• Frequent to significant walking, standing, sitting, kneeling, bending, reaching, pushing, pulling, stooping, lifting up to 30 pounds, and occasional lifting of equipment or students up to 90 pounds.
• Occasional lifting, movement, and transferring of students.
• Occasional use of wheelchairs and contact with bodily fluids.
• Understanding of universal precaution measures and proper use of materials.
• Regular contact and communication with staff and administration.
• Drive a school bus route when needed.

Full‑time (10 months); 37.5 hours per week; 5 days per week.