Bus Monitor

Transportation Assistant

Primary Purpose: Ride buses and helps driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.

Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED Required Dependable and Cooperative Able to work with children, including children with special needs Twenty-one (21) years of age or older

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

• Supervise students as they board and exit the bus.
• Monitor students in the bus and makes sure students leave the bus in a safely and orderly manner (No child left behind).
• Report daily to assigned bus on time.
• Assist students in getting on and off the bus.
• Keep students in their assigned bus seats.
• Observe safety precautions and bus seat regulations.
• Drill students in emergency exits and bus safety rules.
• Make the students feel comfortable.
• Responsible for students if the bus driver needs to leave the bus.
• Maintain a business relationship with students, driver, parents, and campus staff.
• Report misbehaving students to the bus driver and appropriate campus personnel.
• Assist bus driver in managing behavior.
• Assist students with seat belts, vests, and wheelchair restraints.
• Install and maintain car seats, and all related hardware (with Region One ESC training).
• Maintain a high level of cleanliness in the bus for students and employees.
• Maintain daily logs including parent contacts, attendance, and IEPs.
• Performs all duties in a safe manner to avoid injury to self and/or to others.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Equipment Used: Wheelchair lifts, ramps, seat belts, car seats, locks, and special needs adaptive equipment.

Working Conditions: Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors: Maintain emotional control under stress. Frequent walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing and pulling; moderate lifting and carrying. Work outside and inside; work around vehicles and machinery with moving parts; moderate exposure to extreme temperatures and vehicle fumes. Ability to assist students during emergency evacuations including lifting students, and moving incapacitated students to a safe location.