Bus Assistant - Transportation Central

Cherry Creek Schools•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 student supervision, emotional and behavioral support, physical assistance, and safe use of transportation equipment. It also includes vehicle inspections, communications and recordkeeping, emergency preparation and response, and maintaining required certifications and training. This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma.
Criminal background check and fingerprinting required for hire.
CPR and First Aid certifications within 90 days of hire.
No professional work experience required.
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 and varying weather conditions.
Ability to work alone and with others.
Ability to maneuver heavy manual and electric wheelchairs weighing up to 800 pounds.
Heavy-work strength level, including lifting or carrying up to 100 pounds.

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.
Ability to maneuver heavy wheelchairs with student/chair combined weight up to 800 pounds, including over ramps and curbs and inside a bus.
Ability to perform frequent bending, reaching, squatting, and climbing; eye/hand coordination; visual concentration; concentrated reading, writing, and mathematics; prolonged standing and walking; overhead work; and occasional lifting, pulling, and pushing.
Ability to work within a moving vehicle for up to four hours and in any existing weather conditions.

Responsibilities

Monitor students with varying special needs during bus rides, assess medical or behavioral situations, take safety steps according to District protocols, and provide 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 backpacks.
Use equipment such as wheelchair lifts, securements, vests, seatbelts, and integrated seats to help students travel safely and comfortably.
Secure wheelchairs without compromising their structure; identify and use emergency-release mechanisms when necessary; adjust safety vests and attachments and position students in wheelchairs and car seats; maintain and replace District equipment as needed.
Perform pre- 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 students’ confidential emergency card book.
Collaborate with the bus driver on emergency evacuation plans and carry out evacuation procedures when necessary, including securing the vehicle if the driver is incapacitated and using relevant bus safety equipment.
Read area maps and know route directions to assist substitute bus drivers; work with the driver to support affected students in confined spaces.
Maintain required certifications and participate in scheduled training meetings.
Perform other duties as assigned or requested.