Transportation / Bus Assistant

Company:  Lorain City Schools
Location: Lorain
Closing Date: 07/11/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Position Type:
Maintenance/Custodial
Date Posted:
7/1/2024
Location:
District Wide
Date Available:
2024/25 SY
Closing Date:
open external Location: Lorain City School District
Workdays: 184 workdays
Shift / Hours: 1st Shift, 5-hours
Rate of Pay: $17.00 per hour (updated rate for 24/25 school year)
Requirements:
  1. High School graduate or equivalent
  2. Ability to work compassionately and patiently with students with disabilities
  3. Ability to follow directions
  4. Ability to communicate in a polite and professional manner with students, co-workers, parents, and school staff members
  5. Ability to physically move students in wheelchairs
  6. Extensive knowledge of proper emergency bus evacuation procedures
  7. Expensive knowledge of planned routes, runs, and assigned stop locations
  8. First Aid and CPR training required as part of the duties
  9. Ability to physically remove students from a disabled bus
  10. Ability to maintain confidentiality in regards to student information
  11. Ability to properly operate a wheelchair securement and child restraint equipment
  12. Ability to comprehend and understand the manifested disabilities of students with special needs
  13. Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
  14. Ability to regularly, predictably and reliably at work
  15. Ability to perform routine physical activities that are required to fulfill the job
Physical Requirements:
  1. Required prolonged sitting or standing
  2. Requires physical exertion to manually move, lift, carry, pull, or push objects or materials
  3. Requires stooping, kneeling, crawling, bending, turning and reaching
  4. Extensive bus travel
Preferred Qualificatios:
  1. Experience working with Special Needs students
Union: Ohio Association of Public School Employees, Chapter 377 B (OAPSE 377 B) union
District Contact for Information :
  1. Barb Medrick, Transportation Coordinator, by email at:
  2. Mary Mayse, Executive Director of Operations, by email at:

Interested applicants please visit the Lorain City Schools website at: to complete and submit an employment application.
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