Bus Monitor (Temporary Position)

Job Title: Bus Monitor (Temporary Position)

Supervisor: Transportation Director and/or Route Coordinator

Term of Employment: 180 days

Wage Category: Non Exempt

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Certified in first aid and CPR (adult and child) preferred
• Prior job experience required
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as District Administration may find appropriate and acceptable

Job Summary:

Help ensure the safety of students while they are on the bus, boarding, and exiting.  They work with the bus driver to provide support to students with and without disabilities, and to maintain order according to district policy.

Essential Duties:

• Help students board and exit: Assist students with disabilities or behavioral issues, and ensure they reach their parents or guardians
• Secure passengers: Buckle seatbelts and fasten wheelchair tie-down straps
• Maintain order: Announce routes and stops, and communicate behavioral problem
• Intervene: Stop any situations that could lead to injury or mistreatment
• Prepare for emergencies: Assist in emergency evacuations, and know the location of bus stops
• Report issues and communicates with the driver, school administration, routing coordinator and/or school administration about issues that need attention
• Follow FERPA:Ensure the confidentiality of student records, behavior, and ridership
• Monitors students while on bus; maintains safety and order on the bus, ensures students wear seatbelts (if available)
• Assists driver by providing first aid to ill or injured students/ utilizes PPE (Personal Protective Equipment when determined and/or appropriate
• Assists bus driver with routes, directions and while the vehicle is driving in reverse.
• Assists with the District’s Green Card procedures
• Required to have prompt, regular attendance in-person and be available to work on-site, in-person during regular business hours and as needed.
• Supervisor may assign other duties as needed

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Must exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal workplace levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal workplaces, outdoors and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be conducted in work-related community settings and/or occasionally performed on study trips away from the school.

Salary: $14.49 Hourly / Temp.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.  The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor.  GCSD reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.
 
The deadline is for the convenience of the District.  The District reserves the right at any time to extend the deadline date without notice and without final consideration of any pending applications.

GCSD provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Last Update: 9/24

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