Bus Driver/Custodian for Head Start Clarksville
Job description
Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Action Agency (CMCCAA) is seeking a bus driver/custodian for our Head Start program. Head Start is a federally-funded, early childhood education program serving eligible families in the Clarksville/Montgomery county community. The bus driver/custodian ensures the safe and timely transportation of 3 to 5-year-old children to and from our Lafayette Head Start center. The bus driver is assisted by 1-2 bus monitors. Other responsibilities include general cleaning, light maintenance, and lawn care at the center. Hours: Monday - Friday, 6:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Service Key Result Areas: Facilities/Materials/Equipment Transportation Health and Safety Requirements: Education: High school diploma or GED and CDL license class “B” with a “PS” endorsement required. Experience: Driving school bus, general cleaning, light maintenance and lawn care preferred. Skills: Excellent communication skills with children, parents, and staff are a must. Record-keeping and computer skills are desired. Knowledge: Knowledge of all federal and state laws pertaining to transporting children, appropriate, and safe use of equipment required for custodial and lawn care use. Ability: To work as a team member. Responsibilities: Maintains professional communication skills and confidentiality of all records and information for staff, parents, children, visitors and community representatives. Adheres to all operational policies and procedures for the CMCCAA and Head Start Program to ensure compliance with CMCCAA personnel policies, Federal Performance Standards, established Written Plans, state and local laws. Ensures that the bus is inspected prior to each bus route to ensure the safe and timely transportation of children to and from the center. Ensures that continuous communication is established with the bus monitor(s) to ensure that all children transported are accounted for during transit. Ensures that a walk through inspection is performed in accordance with federal, state, and local laws to ensure that no child is left behind on the bus. Ensures that the bus is clean free of malfunctions, defects and hazards for the health and safety of the children and staff. Conducts monthly bus evacuation drills and explains evacuation safety with the children and submits copy of drill report to supervisor. Records and submits copy of bus pre-trip and transportation logs to supervisor each Monday. Ensures that assigned facility and grounds are well maintained and clean to provide a safe and healthy environment for the children, parents, visitors and staff. Ensures that all chemicals and equipment utilized to clean and maintain facility are secured at all times and out of reach of the children. Ensures that all custodial and lawn care equipment is well maintained and secured when not in use. Ensures that adequate cleaning and maintenance supplies are available and report shortages to supervisor. Ensures that food prep supplies are stored and issued to teaching staff when needed to provide meals for the children. Assist teaching staff when moving of large furnishings is needed for classroom set-up or removal. Assist teaching staff when one must leave classroom for a short period of time if needed. Works with teaching staff to perform fire and tornado drills with the children monthly, records, posts and submits documentation to supervisor when complete. Submits playground and daily maintenance inspection logs to supervisor on the first working day of each month for the month prior. Adheres to and utilizes strict safety precautions when performing daily tasks. Request assistance when a task requires more than one person to ensure the task is done safely. Assist fellow staff members at other facilities when assistance is needed and approved by supervisor. Ensures that assigned facility, property and equipment are secure at the end of the work day. Meets with center staff as a team when centers meetings are held and provides input. Meets with service area staff and supervisor for monthly meeting and provides input. Attends professional development, workshops, trainings and in-services when necessary. Benefits: PTO, 14 paid holidays, paid winter & spring break Medical, dental, vision & life insurance 401k with up to 3% agency contribution AccessPerks discount program All offers of employment are contingent upon clear results of a thorough background check, drug/alcohol test and the approval of the Head Start Policy Council. CMCCAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and hires without regard to race, color, sex, age, disability, or national origin. All employees must meet qualification standards that are job related and consistent with business necessity and must be able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees may perform other related duties as necessary to meet the needs of the organization. About Clarksville-Montgomery County Community Action Agency (CMCCAA) Mission Statement It is the general purpose of CMCCAA to identify problems of poverty and to seek the elimination of conditions of poverty as they affect people in the communities of Clarksville and Montgomery County, Tennessee. It shall further be the general purpose and functions of the CMCCAA to utilize and mobilize the resources of the community to implement programs that are designed to alleviate the effects of poverty in the Clarksville-Montgomery County area. The purpose and function of our agency is to: Administer programs from the office of Community Services, Tennessee Department of Human Services, their successors and other appropriate Federal state and local governments, private and public agencies, corporations and foundations in Clarksville and Montgomery County Tennessee; Work with the three (3) significant groups in the agency's service area (the poor sector, the public sector and the private sector) to identify causes of poverty; Make the entire agency's service areas more sensitive to the needs and interests of the poor, and develop priorities among projects and activities to be implemented by the agency to eliminate the causes of poverty. To empower clients to become more economically self-sufficient by planning and assisting them in locating and accessing resources enabling participants to identify their strengths and barriers as well as to assume responsibility within and for their community. Additionally, families will be assisted to strengthen family units by making informed decisions and initiating positive actions. What is a Community Action Agency? Community Action Agencies are private non-profit or public organizations that were created by the federal government in 1964 to combat poverty in geographically designated areas. Status as a Community Action Agency is the result of an explicit designation by local or state government. A Community Action Agency has a tripartite board structure that is designed to promote the participation of the entire community in the reduction or elimination of poverty. Community Action Agencies seek to involve the community, including elected public officials, and representatives from the low-income and private sectors on the Board of Directors. Visit our website: https://cmccaa.com/ Job Type: Full-time Pay: $17.09 per hour Benefits: 401(k) Dental insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Vision insurance Schedule: Monday to Friday No weekends Ability to commute/relocate: Clarksville, TN 37042: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required) Experience: School bus driving: 1 year (Preferred) License/Certification: CDL B with P and S endorsements (Required) Work Location: In person
