NORTHWEST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
Job Title: Bus Monitor (0721)
Reports to: Operations Manager
Dept. / Campus: Transportation
Wage/Hour Status: Non-Exempt
Duty Days: 180
Pay Grade: B01
Date Revised: 05/2023
Primary Purpose:
Ride buses and help driver ensure safe and orderly transportation of students with disabilities
Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years of age
- Ability to move actively through large numbers of people in a limited amount of space
- Ability to act responsibly
- High School Diploma / GED
- Ability to follow verbal instructions and communicate effectively
- Ability to complete Monitor Evaluation showing capabilities of fulling job description
- Ability to operate safety equipment and adaptive equipment
- Ability to work well with children with disabilities
Ability to manage student behavior
- Ability to communicate effectively with others
- School experience preferred
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
Student Management:
- Instruct students on safe entering, exiting, and passenger rules and regulations
- Supervise students as they board and leave bus and cross street
- Take children into building and help them find their way
- Learn and adapt to each student's special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs
- Maintain discipline and use effective behavior management control over groups of students
- Report student discipline problems to appropriate administrator and communicate with teachers and parents regarding student's behavior when warranted
- Perform emergency evacuation of students on bus when the situation warrants it
- Lift and carry students with disabilities on and off the bus according to their individual needs
Routes & Schedules:
- Become familiar with all routes to and from school campus to be of assistance to driver
- Maintain an updated route schedule
Safety:
- Supervise use of seatbelts, harnesses, or car seats by students
- Follow emergency procedures and help driver administer first aid, if necessary
- Operate equipment according to established safety procedures
- Follow established procedures and techniques to perform job duties, including:
- Lifting
- Assisting students
- Other duties as assigned
Other:
- Become familiar with and follow procedures established by transportation and special education offices
- Help driver keep bus clean
- Work irregular hours (Split Shift)
- Perform other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Working Conditions:
- Frequent exposure to extreme hot and cold temperatures, noise, and vehicle fumes
- Work around moving vehicles
- Frequently work irregular hours
- Occasionally work prolonged hours
- Subject to temperature extremes
- Subject to frequent interruptions
- Subject to frequent deadlines
- Subject to wet slippery surfaces
- Subject to enclosed spaces
- Exposure to fumes
- Exposure to dust
- Exposure to solvents
- Exposure to toxic chemicals/materials
- Exposure to noise
- Exposure to rain, snow, sleet, lightning, wind, sun, ice
- Exposure to roof tar, grease, oils
- Exposure to insulation fibers
Tools/Equipment Used:
- Two-way radio
- Global positioning system (GPS)
- Wheelchair lift
- Safety equipment, including but not limited to:
- Flares
- Reflective Signs
- Fire Extinguisher
Posture:
- Prolonged sitting, frequent standing and twisting, occasional kneeling/squatting, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling
Motion:
- Moderate walking
- Frequent climbing of stairs
- Grasping/squeezing, wrist and shoulder flexion/extension, and reaching
Mental Demands:
- Ability to read
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
- Ability to understand oral and written instructions
Physical Demands:
- Frequent reaching overhead and horizontally to reach and place materials/equipment in certain areas
- Frequent bending
- Frequent stooping
- Frequent heavy lifting up to 50 pounds to waist height
- Frequent kneeling
- Frequent crawling under vehicles
- Frequent use of powered machinery and tools
- Ability to secure wheelchairs as needed
Sensory Requirements:
- Significant hearing
- Clarity of vision at varying distances to observe diagnostic instruments, manuals, and other printed information
- Verbal, auditory, and written capabilities to effectively communicate in an articulate mann
- Peripheral vision
- Color discrimination
- Depth perception
This document describes the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned, alternative methods of performing your duties, or skills that may be required.