Transportation Safety Assistant

Job Goals: Provides assistance in the safe transportation of students with special needs.

Job Summary: Performs work, including but not limited to seating and restraining all students needing to be
restrained; maintaining bus discipline and cleanliness; loading and unloading students on the bus; and
preparing school records.

QUALIFICATIONS:
1. High School or Equivalent
2. TSA Certification

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Seats and restrains all students needing to be restrained. Seats students to minimize discord
among them; follows student restraining procedures contained in the Asheville City Schools Schools'

Bus Driver/TSA Handbook and inspects restraining harness, straps, and seat belts to ensure safe and
comfortable transport of students.

Loads and unloads students on the bus. Follows established Asheville City Schools Schools'
procedures for loading and unloading wheelchair students; assists students needing assistance to
board and depart from bus; ensures that all students picked up are unloaded at school; ascertains that
all students picked up in the morning are on the bus for the return trip; exit students from bus on
return trip at morning pick-up points; and inspects the bus at the last bus stop to verify that all
students have departed the bus.

Maintains bus discipline and cleanliness. Monitors student behavior; takes actions to prevent
disruptions among students; establishes and enforces bus rules of conduct; controls bus noise levels;
responds to special needs of students; and makes immediate clean-ups of student caused body
discharges during transport.

Prepare school records. Generates student incident reports of inappropriate bus behavior; assists
bus driver in completing transportation reports; and completes payroll time sheets.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Physical Requirements: Must be physically able to sit, stand, walk and drive. Must be able to lift boxes up to 50 pounds. Physical demand requirements are for Heavy Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read simple forms. Requires the ability to prepare time sheets and supply requisitions using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form; to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas, to add, subtract, divide and multiply.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using computers and other technology.

Manual Dexterity: Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors or shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under average levels of stress.

Physical Communications: Requires the ability to see, talk and hear.