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Transporter
Summary of the Job:
The Transporter will coordinate, transport, and supervise youth while in transit to appointments and other destinations. The Transporter will be responsible for organizing transports, tracking, and logging specifics about transports, maintaining vehicles, providing safety training and other travel-related duties. The Transporter should be committed to Sanctuary practice utilizing tools that reinforce our shared language to create a trauma-responsive culture.
Qualifications:
- At least 21 years of age
- A high school diploma or High School/GED.
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred.
- Ability to establish positive relationships with clients and others.
- Ability to follow structured routines.
- Able to show proof of required vaccinations/immunizations.
- Must be able to organize, navigate, and physically escort youth to various travel destinations possibly including airlines, trains, and buses. Travel includes out-of-state trips up to 40%-50% to unify youth with families.
- The supervision and transport of youth requires prolonged periods of walking and standing and physical agility. May be required to run and climb flights of stairs.
- Must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordinates transportation including organizing and navigating travel destinations, physically escorts, and supervises youth while in transit to scheduled and emergency appointments.
- Coordinates medical transports with Nurse; coordinates clinical transports with clinical staff; and coordinates reunification transports with team.
- Maintains a daily roster of times, dates, destinations, transporters, and length of transport.
- Provides documentation of all missed appointments or unusual events to the Management Team.
- Tracks and schedules all group outings weekly via transportation outing schedule.
- Maintains cell phone numbers of staff on transport.
- Ensures daily cleanliness and upkeep of all vehicles assigned to the campus – includes inspecting for cleanliness, damage, proper equipment, and safe operation of vehicle.
- Ensures vehicles are properly fueled.
- Maintains security over the vehicles and keys.
- Reports vehicle needs and damage to maintenance and tracks all vehicle issues in regard to repair.
- Maintains notebooks – includes inspecting logs for completion and accuracy.
- Provides safety training to all new hires every three weeks.
- Collects and tracks all safety checklist sheets and provides weekly report.
- Utilize personal safety plan for managing emotions and interactions with staff and clients.
