Bus Assistant - Transportation Central

Cherry Creek Schools • Aurora, CO

16h

About The Position

Collaborate with bus drivers by monitoring and assisting students
with special needs to ensure safe, efficient, courteous, and customer-service
oriented experience for students, parents/guardians, and staff.

Requirements

• Criminal background check and fingerprinting required
• High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma
• No professional work experience required
• CPR and First Aid certifications within 90 days of hire
• Intermediate verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate interpersonal relations skills
• Intermediate organizational skills
• Ability to consistently report for scheduled work
• Ability to learn and master skills related to transporting students with special needs
• Ability to diffuse and manage stressful situations
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job
• Ability to demonstrate emotional stability with challenging situations
• Ability to work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours
• Ability to work in existing and varying weather conditions
• Ability to work alone and with others
• Ability to maneuver heavy wheelchairs (manual and electric) that total weight up to 800 pounds.
• Criminal background check and fingerprinting required for hire

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in the public sector
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds
• Racially conscious and culturally competent with the skill, will, capacity, and knowledge to commit to a culture of continuous improvement
• Work requires maneuvering heavy wheelchairs (manual and electric) that total weight up to 800 pounds with student/chair combined (e.g. maneuvering up ramps, over curbs, and around the inside of a bus)
• Frequent bending, reaching, squatting, and climbing
• Eye/hand coordination
• Visual concentration
• Concentrated reading/writing/mathematics
• Prolonged standing and walking
• Overhead work
• Occasional lifting, pulling, and pushing
• Work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours
• Work in any existing weather conditions

Responsibilities

• Consistently monitor students with varying special needs during the bus ride.
• Provide emotional and behavioral support and physically assist students with a variety of special needs and disabilities with entering/exiting the bus, walking, sitting, securements, backpacks, etc.
• Safely secure wheelchairs on board the bus without compromising wheelchair structure.
• Perform pre- and post-trip vehicle inspections with the bus driver.
• Communicate student information to the bus driver, parents/guardians, and/or teachers when needed.
• Collaborate with the bus driver to formulate an emergency evacuation plan.
• Maintain all required certifications and participate in regularly scheduled training meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED