Part-Time Bus Monitor & Student Safety Helper

Transportation; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 19,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

Richmond Public Schools Transportation is seeking a Substitute - Bus Monitor in Richmond, VA. This part-time role covers morning and afternoon shifts (6:00-6:30am to 9:00-9:30am and 1:30-2:00 to 4:30-5:00pm) with a 29-hour work week.

Immediate start; background checks and drug testing required; EOE; length of contract is temporary. Responsibilities include assisting the bus operator, securing passengers, helping students board/disembark, and ensuring wheelchair users are properly secured.

Qualifications

• Must have general knowledge of the transportation of students.
• Some knowledge of the appropriate procedures for transporting handicapped students.
• Must have the ability to assist students with patience and understanding; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school officials, parents, associates and students.
• Must have the physical strength and agility to move students in wheelchairs weighing up to 200 lbs. or more and position them properly on the wheelchair lifts for safe loading and unloading operation from the bus.

Responsibilities

• Provides assistance to the school bus operator in the safe operation of the bus.
• Secures passengers in their seats.
• Assists students in boarding and disembarking the school bus.
• Ensures that all student passengers, including those in wheelchairs and/or braces are properly secured in their seats or wheelchair slot.
• Exercising every possible care for safety and comfort of the students on board and ensures no student rides outside the bus.
• Assists with controlling student behavior while boarding, disembarking and during transit.
• Tends to the special needs and conditions of each student.
• Assists with bus evacuation drills and maintaining a clean bus.
• Completes all reports and attends meetings and training sessions required by supervisors.
• Ensures doors are kept clear and removes loose objects from the floor.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Student transport knowledge

Handicapped transport procedures

Patience with students

People skills

Physical strength to assist wheelcha r

Job description

Richmond Public Schools Transportation is seeking a Substitute - Bus Monitor in Richmond, VA. This part-time role covers morning and afternoon shifts (6:00-6:30am to 9:00-9:30am and 1:30-2:00 to 4:30-5:00pm) with a 29-hour work week.

Immediate start; background checks and drug testing required; EOE; length of contract is temporary. Responsibilities include assisting the bus operator, securing passengers, helping students board/disembark, and ensuring wheelchair users are properly secured.