School Bus Monitor

Work Year: School Year. Nature of work involves assisting the bus driver in maintaining order on the bus and assuring the safety of children while entering, riding, and departing from the bus. The bus monitor is subordinate to the bus driver and takes direction from the bus driver. Training and technical assistance is provided by the Transportation department.

Responsibilities

• Assists children in getting on the bus and to assigned seats.
• Ensures all passengers are properly restrained while riding the bus.
• Maintains order and behavior of children on the bus so the driver will not be distracted.
• Maintains a safe environment for all students while on the bus.
• Maintains a positive, calm attitude and a soft voice while on the job.
• Assists the children in getting off the bus safely.
• Releases children only to persons listed on the Child Release Form, and requires identification from any unknown or new person on the list.
• Notifies the receiving school staff of concerns regarding a child’s health, behavior, or emotional state.
• Learns bus route and makes the substitute driver aware of it when necessary.
• Maintains a list on board the bus of all children authorized by the director to ride the bus, and indicates daily the children actually riding the bus and to whom each child is released.
• Reports all unscheduled absences to the director of transportation.
• Checks the bus to assure there are no children remaining on the bus at the end of each route.

Qualifications

• Consistent demonstration of effective interpersonal relationship skills to interact professionally with children, parents, and staff.
• Experience working with children.
• At least a high school diploma required.
• Additional education or training preferred.

Pay

$18.75 per hour.

Schedule

Hours of work are 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; and 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Tuesdays or early release days.