Under the General Supervision of the Fleet Transportation Coordinator, Adult Day Services (ADS) bus drivers are responsible for transporting participants to and from ADS and extracurricular events, following a scheduled route and ensuring the safety of all passengers.
Total Hours:8-20 weekly, Monday-Friday
Driving Hours: Approximately 7:00am-9:00am and/or 1:30pm-3:30pm + variable hours for driving to/from activities
Training hours, if applicable: Flexible
Responsibilities - Transport participants to and from the ADS facility and activities, as scheduled, in a safe and efficient manner
- Conduct daily pre/post-trip inspection of vehicles, including checking vehicle fluid level
- Maintain a clean and mechanically sound bus at all times
- Assist with loading and unloading of participants
- Secure wheelchairs at all tie-down points and fasten seatbelts and shoulder straps
- Assure use of seat belts by all passengers AND the driver
- Obey all traffic laws to ensure participants arrive to their destination safely
- Notify appropriate persons of all vehicle defects in accordance with policy
- Keep all safety-related equipment must in proper working order and stored when not in use
- Carry bus bag with participant emergency information at all times
- Complete appropriate form for all accidents, incidents, or seizures that involve passengers
- Practice evacuation drills with persons served a minimum of one time per year
Education - High school diploma or GED required
Experience - Five-years driving experience with excellent driving record required
Certification, Registration or License- Valid Kansas class C driver’s license required
- Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) for vehicles of 16 passenger capacity with passenger or more with passenger endorsement, or obtain such license within a reasonable time after hired
Skills and Abilities - Ability to treat persons served courteously
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to read routing assignments, maps, and road signs
- Ability to use hand radio
- Ability to read GPS
- Ability to move individuals in wheelchairs on and off the vehicles using lifts, to include pushing and pulling
- Training in first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation preferred
Exposures - Blended exposure to outside elements and weather exposures inherent to continuous driving in residential and commercial areas with noise/vibrations from motorized vehicle
Physical Demands - Work Type: Heavy, exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects
- Climbing/Balancing/Freedom to Move: Frequently mobile to move in and out of vehicle and assist passengers. Range of motion to moderate stooping, bending, lifting
- Stooping/Bending: Moderate
- Reaching: Moderate, overhead as well as horizontal and down
- Vision: Adequate to perform essential functions
- Color vision: As required for issuance of driver’s license
- Hearing: Frequently perceive nature of sounds by ear
- Speech: Frequently express ideas by means of spoken words
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently operates equipment requiring skilled ability
- Manual Dexterity: Frequently operates equipment requiring skilled ability
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