Educational Assistant - Transportation (SPED)

Job Description

Responsible for monitoring special education students with moderate to severe needs and challenging or emotional difficulties on school buses. Assists with securing wheelchairs and other equipment. Develops and promotes good community relations among various community members and school clientele.

Essential Physical Requirements

• Ability to clear forty-two (42) inch exit door
• Frequent lifting twenty (20) to fifty (50) pounds
• Frequent sitting, bending, squatting, stooping
• Frequent pushing and pulling of up to two hundred fifty (250) pound wheelchair
• Occasional reaching, kneeling

Responsibilities

• Perform appropriate record keeping, including accounting for Medicaid and ZPass forms.
• Perform pre- and post-trip inspections.
• Effectively monitor students on bus for behavior, special assistance, and emergency intervention; intervene and handle escalated behavior.
• Communicate with parents and other school personnel as needed.
• Aid in instruction, documentation, behavior support, medical and health needs of each student.
• Maintain proper equipment and materials on bus for care of students with moderate and severe needs.

Certifications

• CPI - DCSD
• First Aid/CPR Certification - Colorado
• Special Needs Certification - Certified Care Education

Skills

• Able to read and understand Behavior and Health Care Plans.

Benefits

• Health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA)
• District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options

Pay

• Minimum Hire Rate: $19.84 USD/Hour
• Maximum Hire Rate: $25.20 USD/Hour
• Full Salary Range: $19.84 USD - $30.55 USD/Hour

Schedule

• Scheduled Hours Per Week: 35 Fte
• Approx Scheduled Days Per Year: 184 Work Days