Transit Instructor

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessment with clients and family in their home to determine participants’ functional skills, abilities, and necessary training requirements.
• Maintain daily contact with family and/or other agency staff as required for individual training.
• Teach while traveling on public transportation, and within the community.
• Patience, compassion, and empathy for people with physical and/ or developmental disabilities, as well as senior citizens.
• Be a strong self-manager, team orientated with excellent communication skills.
• Be able to solve problems independently in changing environments.
• Knowledge of the local transit system.
• Make safety a top priority.
• Strong customer service skills, with a strong understanding of working with individuals with physical and developmental disabilities, and senior community.
• Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of different disabilities, and the ability to research disabilities, if needed, for a better understanding of the student.

Qualifications

• Talent Requirements:
• Education is equivalent to an AA degree from an accredited institution, specializing in social services, special education, preferred or two (2) years of experience providing instruction or working one-on-one with a special demographics who display a developmental and/or physical disability, as well as support our senior population.
• Must have a valid Driver’s license, good driving record, proof of insurance, and own transportation.
• Must have a strong user knowledge of Word and Excel.
• Customer service skill in the field.
• Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and detail oriented, while demonstrating a concern for the safety of the vulnerable population.
• Ability to self-manage in remote settings.
• Inspire confidence in the participants ability to independently use public transportation safely through modeling professionalism, and training.
• Show a passion for our vulnerable populations by displaying integrity, responsibility, dependability, punctuality, flexibility, initiative, ability to communicate in simply clearly sentences is a must.

Starting Pay Rate

$28 - $29/hour

Benefits

• PPO Medical, Medical HSA, Prescription, Dental, Vision (spouse and dependent children), Telemedicine, FSA, Life, AD&D, Group Accident, LTD, STD, EAP, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Substance Abuse Professionals programming
• 401k and Union pension: the Company contributes to the WCT Pension for each hour for which compensation is paid to maximum of 2080 hours per calendar year
• Paid Time Off: 0 months - year 2 = 1.538 bi-weekly accrual w/ 40 yearly accrual cap
• Paid Holidays: 8 paid holidays
• More Generous Paid Sick Leave: 1 hour/per 30 hours for all FT employees
• Other Compensation: $1,000.00 Driver referral bonus ($500.00 upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of probationary period); $1,000.00 Mechanic referral bonus ($500.00 upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of probationary period)