Bus Monitor

Bus Monitor

Performs semi-skilled level duties under general supervision of the Director of Transportation and indirect supervision of bus driver to observe students on the bus and to ensure proper and safe behavior while being transported and loaded on and off the bus. Must be sensitive to special needs of individual students while in transit and attend to those needs. Must be able to perform tasks with sensitivity and confidentiality.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Communication Skills (oral, written, or business): Must possess communication skills to exchange information, give/receive simple instructions and respond to inquiries.
• Reading and Interpreting: Reads and interprets routine written or printed material. Has regular contact with other children, teacher/staff/sponsors, and parents/guardians of bus riders. Requires interpreting and translating facts and information, explaining and advising passengers of the rules, and assisting the bus driver.

Essential Job Functions (PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES):

• Maintains confidentiality of all students. Discussion of students without applying the "need to know" rule is prohibited.
• Assists young or special needs/disabled students in getting on and off the bus. May operate chair lift. Appropriately secures special needs students when on bus. Lifts and secures children into car seats as required. Assists those in wheelchairs on and off the bus, and while in transit, and sees that they are properly secured while on the bus. Assists ambulatory children to and from seat. Accompanies special needs students across the streets and at various locations as required.
• Observes student to prevent interior bus destruction or other concerns. Works with certified staff members to understand specific needs of individual students if necessary. Must clean up body fluids and other messes that may occur on the bus. Assists the bus driver in maintaining good student conduct on the bus. Ensures that students get on and off the bus in an orderly fashion. Collect and turns over to the school personnel those personal items left on the bus by students. Assists driver in any emergency situation/in case of accident, or with seizures, etc. Performs other duties as assigned.

Other Performance Measures:

• Requires good people skills to deal with difficult situations, assist disabled passengers and be sensitive to special needs, control unruly and often difficult passengers effectively while operating the bus and to resolve problems effectively with parents.
• Requires following safety guidelines and policies including the Exposure Control Plan established by the District for bloodborne pathogens, in order that passengers are transported to their destinations safely and that no harm comes to private/public property or equipment.
• Requires following school dress standard, being on time and being dependable, and handling other district requirements. Creativity, initiative, and effective problem solving are important to prevent problems from occurring and to resolve them after they occur. Must like working with children and especially be sensitive to the needs of disabled children.

Supervision exercised: Employee does not supervise other employees.

Complies with Shawnee's Mission Statement in which students are to be provided with skills, knowledge and attitudes to become lifelong learners, complex thinkers, and responsible citizens in an ever-changing global society.

Physical/Mental Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Employee sits 4-6 hours per day; stand/walk 1-2 hours per day. Requires frequent bending/stooping; squatting/crouching; reaching above shoulders; and pushing/pulling.
• Requires frequent carrying/lifting of up to 35 pounds and occasionally carrying/lifting up to 50 pounds in order to lift or assist non-wheel chair passengers into seat. If weight is over 50 pounds, the driver may assist.
• Requires employee to use both hands for such repetitive actions requiring simple/firm grasping and/or fine manipulation. Employee must possess manual dexterity/mobility sufficient to maneuver children in wheelchairs and secure them while riding the bus. Employee must possess visual requirement enough to observe surroundings and ensure children are properly and safely seated. Employee must possess hearing/speaking requirement enough to communicate to driver, children, parents, and others.
• Knowledge of safety procedures for special needs children; learns each child's special needs and how to handle discipline problems. Requires working outdoors with temperature changes; exposure to bodily fluids, dust, non-air-conditioned busses, etc. Must possess patience and ability to care for disabled children as well as non-disabled children.

Terms of Employment:

Length of the work year and hours of employment shall be those established by the District. (175-day contract)

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Shawnee Board Policy on evaluation of personnel.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Revised: March 17, 2020