Substitute Bus Monitor

Cedar Falls Community Schools • Cedar Falls, IA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides assistance to school bus drivers in maintaining a safe environment for the transportation of students. The role involves maintaining discipline and good order during loading, transit, and unloading of passengers, with a tolerant acceptance of the natural energy of children and adolescents, as well as empathy for students with behavioral, cognitive, or health conditions.

Requirements

• Ability to defuse potentially emotional or confrontational situations.
• Ability to maintain composure in stressful situations.
• Ability to treat others with respect when verbally or physically challenged.
• Ability to make factual, descriptively accurate reports.
• Ability to establish and maintain productive, healthy relationships with young children, adolescents, and adults.
• Ability to lift and when necessary safely carry students who are physically impaired.
• Ability to communicate clear directions and instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain a safe environment with tolerant acceptance of the reasonable natural energy and exuberance of young children and adolescents as well as empathy and understanding for students with behavioral, cognitive, or health conditions.
• Ability to administer First Aid.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• Experience Required: Skills: ability to defuse potentially emotional or confrontational situations
• Knowledge- Safe practices regarding student transportation

Responsibilities

• Assists students in boarding the bus and to assigned seats.
• Ensures students are restrained when required by regulation.
• Assists driver in assuring seat belts, harnesses, and wheel chair clamps are secured.
• Ensures the bus driver is not distracted from driving safely by maintaining order and appropriate student behavior.
• Intervenes as appropriate to prevent and curtail verbal or physical disputes between students.
• Performs double check to assure no students remain on the bus at the end of each route or trip.
• Assists students with disabilities or special needs in exiting the bus.
• Assists bus driver in providing verbal and/or written reports to district officials related to student misbehavior, emotional or health-related concerns, illness or injury, incidents with parents or the public, and maintenance of good order.
• Maintains knowledge of and ability to perform emergency evacuation procedures, including administration of First Aid.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED