Bus Assistant - Transportation Central

Cherry Creek•Aurora, CO

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Bus Assistant collaborates with bus drivers to monitor and assist students with special needs, providing a safe, efficient, courteous, and customer-service-oriented experience for students, parents/guardians, and staff. The role provides students with medical, emotional, behavioral, and physical support during transportation and helps ensure they are safely secured. The assistant also conducts vehicle inspections, communicates student information, maintains required records and confidential emergency information, and supports emergency planning and evacuation. The position has no direct supervisory responsibilities and reports to the Operations Supervisor or designee.

Requirements

High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma.
No professional work experience required.
Criminal background check and fingerprinting required for hire.
CPR and First Aid certifications must be obtained within 90 days of hire.
Intermediate verbal and written communication skills.
Intermediate interpersonal relations skills.
Intermediate organizational skills.
Ability to consistently report for scheduled work.
Ability to learn and master skills related to transporting students with special needs.
Ability to diffuse and manage stressful situations and demonstrate emotional stability in challenging situations.
Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job.
Ability to work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours and in existing, varying weather conditions.
Ability to work alone and with others.
Ability to maneuver heavy manual and electric wheelchairs weighing up to 800 pounds.
Ability to perform heavy work, including lifting or carrying up to 100 pounds.
Ability to perform frequent bending, reaching, squatting, and climbing; prolonged standing and walking; overhead work; and occasional lifting, pulling, and pushing.
Ability to perform tasks requiring eye/hand coordination, visual concentration, and concentrated reading, writing, and mathematics.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in the public sector.
Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Racially conscious and culturally competent, with the skill, will, capacity, and knowledge to commit to a culture of continuous improvement.
Experience maneuvering heavy wheelchairs, including moving them up ramps, over curbs, and around the inside of a bus.

Responsibilities

Monitor students with varying special needs during bus rides; assess medical or behavioral situations and respond according to District protocols, including providing initial first aid or emergency care when needed.
Provide emotional and behavioral support and physically assist students with entering and exiting the bus, walking, sitting, securements, and belongings.
Use equipment such as wheelchair lifts, securements, vests, seatbelts, and integrated seats to safely and comfortably secure students.
Secure wheelchairs without compromising their structure, use emergency release mechanisms when necessary, adjust safety vests and attachments, and position students in wheelchairs and car seats appropriately.
Maintain and replace District equipment as needed.
Perform pre-trip and post-trip vehicle inspections with the bus driver.
Communicate student information to bus drivers, parents/guardians, and teachers as needed; prepare and submit required records and reports; maintain confidential student emergency card books.
Collaborate with the bus driver on emergency evacuation plans and carry out evacuation procedures when necessary, including using bus equipment and assisting if the driver is incapacitated.
Read area maps and know route directions to assist substitute bus drivers; work with the driver to serve students in the confined space of the bus.
Maintain required certifications and participate in scheduled training meetings.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.