Substitute Special Education Bus Attendant

Washington Unified School District • West Sacramento, CA

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About The Position

Washington Unified School District (WUSD) serves nearly 7,500 students in West Sacramento, carrying forward a proud legacy of excellence since 1917. As the city's premier provider of high-quality education, WUSD offers innovative programs like Spanish Dual Language Immersion, Visual and Performing Arts, Career Technical Education, AVID, and before and after-school care. WUSD fosters a supportive and collaborative environment for employees, with mentoring, professional growth opportunities, and cutting-edge technology to inspire innovation in teaching. Rooted in equity, diversity, and inclusion, WUSD is a vibrant community of educators, families, and partners dedicated to empowering every student to thrive. WASHINGTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION: Special Ed. Bus Attendant Salary Range: 27 GROUP:Transportation Date of Adoption/Revision: 01/22/09 DESCRIPTION: Instructs and reinforces appropriate bus riding behaviors and may implement specific behavioral modification programs with students while they ride the bus to and from school.

Requirements

• Requires an understanding of the policies and procedures for instructing and enforcing appropriate bus riding behavior.
• Requires sufficient human relations skill to achieve harmony with a small group of children
• Behavior management strategies
• Incumbent must be able to demonstrate patience and composure sufficient to monitor and control the behavior of children, including those with special needs.
• Requires the ability to perform basic record keeping duties in order to report student performance on a routine basis.
• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Reading and writing skills sufficient to prepare basic reports is required.
• TB test clearance, criminal justice fingerprint clearance, and valid ARC first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation certificate.
• Lift, carry, push and/or pull items up to a minimum of 100 pounds with a strength factor of moderately heavy work.
• Frequent bending at the waist and kneeling, squatting, or crouching.
• Finger dexterity sufficient to fasten harness and seat belts and securing wheelchairs to bus.
• Hearing and speaking to exchange information in person and on the radio
• Reaching, pulling, and pushing to operate bus doors.
• Lifting moderately heavy objects.
• Maintain balance while standing on the bus while bus is in motion, starting, or stopping.
• See to read a variety of materials and to assist students.
• Possess strength and physical dexterity to pull children from bus in case of accident.
• Climbing a minimum of 5 steps to enter and exit the school bus.

Nice To Haves

• Previous experience working with children in an unstructured group setting is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Rides an assigned bus, sitting with the students to and from school
• escorts students from bus to the classroom upon arrival at school and from the classroom to the bus upon departure from school, as required
• instructs and reinforces appropriate bus riding behaviors which include rules regarding safety and good manners
• implements specific behavioral objectives with individual students to shape behavior toward appropriate bus riding behaviors
• charts students' performances on the bus for report to parents and teachers on a daily, weekly or other designated reporting basis
• performs bus cleaning and inspection duties such as washing of windows, trash removal, cleaning of seating surfaces, etc. as required
• performs other duties as required to accomplish the objectives of the position.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees