Position Type:
Transportation
Date Posted:
6/28/2024
Location:
Transportation Department
Closing Date:
07/07/2024
JOB TITLE: Bus Aide
REPORTS TO: Manager Transportation Operations or designee.
NATURE AND SCOPE OF JOB: To maintain a safe transportation environment for students. Bus Aide is responsible for providing ongoing and emergency support to both ambulatory and non-ambulatory students while loading/unloading and riding the school bus.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Ability to read, write, and perform assigned duties
- Minimum experience as determined by the board of education.
- Knowledge of bus passenger safety and effective discipline procedures.
- Required criminal history background check and proof of U.S citizenship or legal resident
PERFORMANCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Maintain student conduct on the bus.
- Maintains discipline on the bus per directions of Trenton Public School District.
- Greet students when entering the school bus.
- Provide instruction to students regarding passenger safety, and ensure students are secured with harness, seatbelt lock, seatbelt, or any other equipment written in the student's IEP.
- Report misconduct of students appropriately by filing a write-up with the transportation dispatcher.
- Position yourself on the bus where all students are most visible and per directions of the school district.
- Assist the students in finding their assigned seats.
- Assist bus driver with wheelchair students safely tying down the wheelchair and securing the student.
- Assist young or disabled students in getting on and off the bus.
- Appropriate dress code, wear uniforms provided following the dress code and shoes as described in the employee manual.
- Incidents that result in injury, illness, harm, or the potential for significant harm to a student must be reported before the end of the work day.
- Assist the bus driver in keeping the bus clean
- Participate in scheduled emergency bus exit drills.
- If emergency evacuation is necessary, follow the direction and supervision of the school bus driver.
- Check to be sure that all students have been dropped off, and no passengers remain on the bus at the end of the bus route.
- Perform such additional duties as the board of education may find appropriate and acceptable.
- Report to and be under the direction and supervision of the school bus driver and/or other appropriate School District authority.
- Perform other related duties as determined and assigned by the Manager Transportation Operations or designee.
The Bus Aide shall be employed under the following terms:
- Work year of ten (10) months.
- Salary, benefits and leave time as unaffiliated employees.
- Conditions established by laws and codes of the State and policies, rules and regulations
established by the Board of Education (N.J.S.A 18A:27-4 et seq.).