PART-TIME TRANSPORTATION AIDE

GENERAL FUNCTION

The Transportation Aide shall work in direct cooperation with the bus/van driver on his/her assigned route. The Transportation Aide reports to and is directly responsible to the Program Director of Pinewood, Inc.

Duties

The Transportation Aide shall:

1. Provide the required amount of assistance to each ambulatory consumer to ensure their safe and timely entrance into the vehicle. (Consumers are assisted to the vehicle by home care providers).
   • Ambulatory consumers may require assistance in climbing into the vehicle. Special care must be given when weather conditions are wet, snowy, or icy.
2. Assist driver and home care providers in helping persons in wheelchairs get onto the vehicle. (Persons in wheelchairs are assisted to the vehicle and placed onto the lift by the home care provider).
   • Check to ensure the wheelchair is securely centered on the wheelchair lift.
   • Check to ensure that consumer's arms and legs are in a safe position prior to operating lift.
   • Check to ensure that wheelchair brakes (2) are locked prior to operating lift.
   • Check to ensure all tie downs are secure at all points and that lap belt is securely placed and appropriately adjusted to accommodate the individual.
   • Lap belts are to be threaded under the arms of the wheelchair and tightened directly across the lap of the consumer prior to the vehicle moving.
3. Supervise consumers during transit.
   • Ensure that all consumers are safely seated prior to the vehicle moving.
   • Maintain safe and orderly conduct among consumers while the vehicle is in motion to ensure safety and to protect the driver from experiencing possibly hazardous distractions.
4. Assist driver and Pinewood staff in disembarking consumers from the vehicle upon arrival at Pinewood.
   • Assist ambulatory consumers as necessary to ensure safety.
   • Remove tie-downs and lap belts from persons in wheelchairs.
   • Direct wheelchair onto lift.
   • Set brakes. Ensure arms and legs are in a safe position.
   • Lower lift.
   • Assist in moving persons in wheelchairs into the building.
     
     AT NO TIME SHALL THE WHEELCHAIR LIFT BE OPERATED UNLESS TWO STAFF ARE PRESENT. ONE STAFF PERSON SHALL OPERATE THE LIFT, AND THE OTHER STAFF PERSON SHALL BE IN FRONT OF THE LIFT ENSURING CONSUMER SAFETY.
     
5. At the end of the day, assist Pinewood staff in escorting ambulatory consumers to the vehicle for the return trip home.
6. Place persons in wheelchairs into the vehicle for the return trip home, ensuring that all safety regulations are followed as outlined in Section 2A through 2D.
7. Assist driver and home care providers in removing persons in wheelchairs from the vehicle. Follow disembarking procedures as outlined in Section 4B through 4F.
• Persons in wheelchairs shall be removed from the lift by the home care provider and moved into their home by the home care provider.
8. Report all consumer incidents (behavioral, injuries, etc.) to the Program Director immediately upon arrival to the agency. Fill out proper forms.
9. Except in the event of an emergency, the Transportation Aide shall not leave the vehicle once it has left the agency.

Due to possible occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials, this position may be at risk for Hepatitis B and HIV infection.