Bus Monitor - IDEA Spears (26-27)

Description

Role Mission: The Bus Monitor will ride buses and help the driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities.

What We Offer

• Compensation: $12.00/hour
• Benefits: Dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, generous vacation time, referral bonuses, and professional development.
• Relocation Allowance: Available if applicable.

What You Bring

• Competencies: Ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate effectively; ability to operate safety and adaptive equipment; ability to work well with children with disabilities.
• Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED; License or Certification required.

What You’ll Do – Accountabilities

• Lift and carry students with disabilities on and off the bus according to their individual needs.
• Supervise students as they board and leave the bus and cross streets.
• Take children into buildings and help them find their way.
• Learn and adapt to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
• Manage student behavior and report student discipline problems to appropriate administrators.
• Communicate with teachers and parents on a daily basis regarding student behavior while on the bus.
• Become familiar with all routes to and from school campuses to assist the driver.
• Maintain an updated route schedule.
• Supervise the use of seat belts, harnesses, or car seats by students.
• Follow emergency procedures and help the driver administer first aid, if necessary.
• Operate equipment according to established safety procedures.
• Follow established procedures and techniques to perform job duties including lifting, assisting students, etc.
• Become familiar with and follow procedures established by transportation and special education offices.
• Help the driver keep the bus clean.
• Work irregular hours as needed.

Values and Characteristics

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college.
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them.
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly.
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes.
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change.
• Sets and reaches ambitious goals every day.
• Is excited to continue to grow with IDEA.
• Works relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

About IDEA Public Schools

• At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college.
• We have grown from a small school with 150 students to a multi-state network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools serving over 80,000 college-bound students in 143 schools across Texas, Florida, Ohio, and are on-track to maintain our legacy of sending 100% of our graduates to college.
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to a high level of conduct, professionalism, and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students.

Working Conditions

• 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.

To Apply

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