SUMMARY Learn how to care for students with special needs and ensure their safety while in transit on District school buses.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Learn the care for passengers' needs while in transit. Assist passengers on and off the bus and crossing streets.
Learn how to load and unload passengers in wheelchairs using the lift. Maneuver chairs on ramps, curbs, and inside buildings.
Learn how to secure passengers' wheelchairs and properly fasten all protective safety devices, car seats, lap belts, and T-straps.
Collaborate with driver on passenger management. Assist driver with maintaining student control.
Learn how to manage passengers ambulatory appliances, restraint systems, and difficult behavior.
Learn how to prepare and submit all necessary records and reports in a timely manner.
Learn proper cleaning of the inside of bus, mirrors, and windows.
Learn the protocol for maintaining emergency card book for passengers, and maintain confidentiality of information
Learn how to assist driver with following route folder.
Learn how to report accidents and implement breakdown procedures when required.
Learn the correct safely stop and secure vehicle and evacuate school bus if driver becomes incapacitated.
Obtain special training related to specific disabilities and the assistant role in caring for those needs in transit.
Perform other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE: No experience required.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING: High school diploma/GED preferred.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES & REGISTRATIONS: Valid Colorado driver's license
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES Ability to operate wheelchair lifts, secure wheelchair straps, and safety vests within one week after hire. Must pass District Pre-Placement physical, District written test, District skills training, and First Aid test within one week after hire.
The physical requirements, mental requirements and work environment factors described below 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 the essential functions.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, climb or balance, and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
MENTAL FUNCTIONS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to compare, communicate, use interpersonal skills, and negotiate. The employee is frequently required to analyze, coordinate, compute, evaluate, and compile. The employee is occasionally required to copy, instruct, and synthesize.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions; and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. High exposure to bruises and cuts to self due to hostile passengers. Medium exposure to self to hernia due to lifting wheelchairs and passengers; disease due to handling passengers' bodily fluids; and repetitive motion or stress to wrist or shoulder due to lifting. Low exposure to self and passengers to loss of limb due to wheelchair lift, loss of sight due to hostile passengers, disfigurement due to falling in/off bus lift, and fatality due to maneuvering and assisting passengers in high traffic areas.
