Position Type:
Transportation
'); ' Date Posted:
7/8/2024
Location:
District Wide
Date Available:
07/23/2024
Closing Date:
Until Filled
Title: Bus Monitor
Reports To: Director of Transportation
Summary Description of Classification: Employees in this class are responsible for the care and safety of students with disciplinary issues transported to and from their homes and schools. Nature of work involves managing student behavior to provide the driver freedom to operate the school bus safely by creating a positive and safe transportation environment. Bus attendants must exercise constant alertness to children’s behavioral problems and to react promptly in the events of disciplinary outbreak or other problems. Employee in this class must also be knowledgeable of all students assigned to the bus. Work is performed under the direction of a Transportation Supervisor, or designated assistant, teachers, administrators and bus operators.
Minimum Qualification Standards
Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:. Considerable patience and ability to assist with the well being of students and maintain the bus in an orderly manner. Able to keep confidential student information. Ability to take control and enforce bus rules and regulations. Ability to assume responsibility to learn bus evacuation procedures. Physical and emotional stamina to meet job requirements. Good human relations and communication skills. Strong ethics involving safety. Ability to learn new methods and apply them in daily routine. Operating knowledge of hand brake, air brake and chock and general knowledge of bus fueling. Must possess strong ethics involving safety. Ability to learn new methods and apply them in daily routine.
Physical Demands: Special requirements such as lifting heavy objects and frequent climbing. Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs. Must bend and reach in awkward positions at time to secure children and equipment. Must possess physical and emotional stamina to meet job requirements.
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Works with student population with disciplinary issues.
• Is able to lift students for emergency bus evacuation.
• Must be on the bus at the appropriate time to check equipment and leave on time.
• Assigns students to seats.
• Observes and responds to students with behavior changes and any other unusual conditions on the bus and implements behavior controls when necessary.
• Assist a substitute bus operator with directions.
• Performs bus attendant pre-trip inspection of special equipment.
• Completes paperwork as assigned.
• Keeps required equipment clean and in good working order.
• Treats all students and others with respect and compassion.
• Deals in an effective and tactful manner with all students. Assists the bus operator in performing bus evacuation drills.
• Is calm in an emergency situation and efficiently and quickly evacuates students when needed.
Selection Procedure: Posting will remain open until filled.
The Peach County School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, genetics, disability, or sex in its employment practices, student programs and dealings with the public. It is the policy of the Board of Education to comply fully with the requirements of Title IX, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act and all accompanying regulations.