SUMMARY

Assist driver with student management and ensure the safety and welfare of students including Exceptional Education students while on the bus and at transfer sites.  Must be able to operate mechanical or manual wheelchair lift on a bus and properly strap in a wheelchair inside the bus

MINIMUM JOB REQUIREMENTS

Experience working with children or special education children.  Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and First Aid certification required, however training available after hire.  Lift test, drug/alcohol test.  FBI fingerprint background check required.  Current AZ Driver's license.  Any equivalent combination of training, education or experience that meets the minimum requirements. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

THE LIST OF ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE AND MAY BE SUPPLEMENTED.

• Help students board and disembark buses and cross the street.  Load and unload children in a wheelchair, using a wheelchair lift, as needed.
• Ensure children are safely seated or are securely fastened in harnesses or seat belts as required.
• Direct and instruct students on proper bus conduct.  Prepare and submit bus conduct and incident reports.
• Assist the bus driver in maintaining discipline, keeping the bus clean and conducting evacuation drills.
• Operate a two-way radio to maintain contact with the dispatcher.
• Administer first aid care and/or cardiopulmonary resuscitation as needed.
• Coordinate student welfare concerns with teachers, aides, parents, and supervisor.

MARGINAL FUNCTIONS

Assists exceptional education students with hygiene.  Assist substitute bus drivers with directions and other information.

MENTAL TASKS

Communicate.  Comprehend.  Perform functions from written and oral instructions and from observing others.  Read.

PHYSICAL TASKS

Work involves the performance of duties where physical exertion is required as a normal part of assigned duties.  Assistance is available to perform unusually physically demanding tasks.  Work may involve lifting and carrying objects weighing as much as 50 pounds as a regular part of the job.  May be required occasionally lift weight of up to 50 pounds.  Considerable walking, climbing, stooping, bending, reaching and sitting for considerable periods of time may be required as a normal part of the job.  Employees may have minor restrictions of motion; however the restrictions must not prohibit performance of assigned duties, and vision and hearing should be rated as acceptable to obtain driver’s license.  Verbal communicative ability may be required of public contact positions.

EQUIPMENT, AIDS, TOOLS, MATERIALS

Use school bus activation switches to lift students onto a vehicle (manual and automatic).  Use emergency evacuation belt cutting tools.  Use all appropriate safety equipment.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Indoor.  School bus environment.  Exposure to noise and gas fumes.  Contact with employees, students, and the public.  Exposure to varied weather conditions.

FUNDING

Impact Aid

CONTROL, SUPERVISION

Students on bus

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The Baboquivari Unified School District is an Equal Opportunity/Voluntary Affirmative Action Employer.

The Baboquivari Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, color, religion/religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or national origin.

Additional information on the District's “Non-Discrimination Policy” can be view online at:

https://tb2cdn.schoolwebmasters.com/accnt_1500/site_1501/Documents/Non-Discrimination-Policy.pdf