Transportation / Bus Assistant

Requirements

• High School graduate or equivalent
• Ability to work compassionately and patiently with students with disabilities
• Ability to follow directions
• Ability to communicate in a polite and professional manner with students, co-workers, parents, and school staff members
• Extensive knowledge of proper emergency bus evacuation procedures
• Knowledge of planned routes, runs, and assigned stop locations
• First Aid and CPR training required as part of the duties
• Ability to physically remove students from a disabled bus
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in regards to student information
• Ability to properly operate a wheelchair securement and child restraint equipment
• Ability to comprehend and understand the manifested disabilities of students with special needs
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
• Regularly, predictably, and reliably at work
• Perform routine physical activities that are required to fulfill the job
• Required prolonged sitting or standing
• Requires physical exertion to manually move, lift, carry, pull, or push objects or materials
• Requires stooping, kneeling, crawling, bending, turning and reaching
• Extensive bus travel

Qualifications

• Experience working with Special Needs students
• Union: Ohio Association of Public School Employees, Chapter 377 B (OAPSE 377 B)

Pay

$17.00 per hour (updated rate for 24/25 school year)

Schedule

1st Shift, 5-hours