Bus Aide (2024-2025)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Reports To: Bus Driver and Director of Transportation

Supervises: None

Employment Terms: 10-Month Full-time Position (182 Contracted Days)

Grade: Bus Driver Scale

Position Summary

Performs human support work assisting with the transportation of pupils with special transportation needs to and from school, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the close supervision of the bus driver.

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

1. Assists students on and off buses.
2. Ensures that all student passengers, including those in wheelchairs and braces, are properly secured in their assigned seats or wheelchair slot.
3. Assists in controlling student behavior.
4. Tends to the special needs and conditions of each student.
5. Learns bus routes, schedules, and pick up points.
6. Assists substitute drivers with directions.
7. Keeps abreast of route and bus stop changes and student day care arrangements.
8. Assists drivers in conducting bus evacuation drills.
9. Assists drivers in maintaining a clean bus interior.
10. Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Bus Driver and/or appropriate administrator.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

1. General knowledge of the transportation of students.
2. Some knowledge of transporting handicapped students.
3. Ability to assist students with patience and understanding.
4. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school officials, parents, associates and students.

Qualifications, Education and Experience

1. High school diploma or GED, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
2. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the School Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Physical Requirements

1. This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force.
2. Work regularly requires sitting and using hands to finger, handle or feel, frequently requires standing, walking, speaking or hearing, reaching with hands and arms and lifting and occasionally requires climbing or balancing and stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling.
3. Work has standard vision requirements.
4. Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
5. Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels.
6. Work requires visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, operating machines and observing general surroundings and activities.
7. Work occasionally requires working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to outdoor weather conditions and exposure to vibration.
8. Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Special Requirements

1. A valid driver's license in the Commonwealth of Virginia may be required to operate division-owned/leased motor vehicles. Driving record may be subject to periodic review, and must be acceptable in accordance with the provisions of the Dinwiddie County School Board’s policy manual.
2. All candidates must successfully undergo the following pre-employment screenings:
1. Tuberculosis Screening
2. Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation
3. State Police Criminal History Investigation
4. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)/National Criminal History Investigative Search

Evaluation

Performance of this position will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Dinwiddie County School Board’s policy manual.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Dinwiddie County Public Schools does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.  

We will recruit and select applicants for employment solely on the basis of their qualifications. Our guidelines and practices, including those relating to wages, benefits, transfers, promotions, terminations and self-development opportunities, will also be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex/sexual orientation, gender/gender identity, age, marital status, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, political affiliation, disability, protected veteran status and all other classes protected by the Federal and State Law. Dinwiddie County Public Schools is an Alcohol and Drug Free Workplace.