Transportation Safety Assistant

Transportation Safety Assistant

Assist in the safe transportation of students with special needs.

Performs work, including but not limited to seating and restraining all students needing to be restrained; maintains bus discipline and cleanliness, loads and unloads students on the bus; and prepares school records.

Seats and restraints are needed for all students who need to be restrained. Seats students to minimize discord among them; follows student restraining procedures contained in the Asheville City Schools' Bus Driver/TSA Handbook and inspects restraining harnesses, straps, and seat belts to ensure safe and comfortable transport of students. Loads and unloads students on the bus. Follows established Asheville City Schools procedures for loading and unloading wheelchair students; assists students needing assistance to board and depart from the bus; ensure that all students picked up are unloaded at school; ascertain that all students picked up in the morning are on the bus for the return trip; exit students from a bus on the return trip at morning pick-up points; and inspects the bus at the last bus stop to verify that all students have departed the bus.

Maintains bus discipline and cleanliness. Monitors student behavior; takes actions to prevent disruptions among students; establishes and enforces bus rules of conduct; controls bus noise levels; responds to special needs of students; and makes immediate clean-ups of student-caused body discharges during transport.

Prepare school records. Generates student incident reports of inappropriate bus behavior; assists a bus driver in completing transportation reports and payroll time sheets.

Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to sit, stand, walk, and drive. Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds. Physical demand requirements are for Heavy Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people, or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. This includes giving instructions, assignments, or directions to subordinates or assistants.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read simple forms. Requires the ability to prepare time sheets and supply requisitions using a prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in Standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas to add, subtract, divide, and multiply.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to rapidly and accurately coordinate hands and eyes using computers and other technology.

Manual Dexterity: Must have minimal eye/hand/foot coordination levels.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors or shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under average levels of stress.