Transit Instructor
Company: MV Transportation
Location: Kent
Posted on: April 26, 2024
Job Description:
Overview
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Responsibilities
MV Transportation is seeking a Transit Instructor to facilitate the
independence of individuals, who may be Developmentally Disabled,
Physically Disabled, Low Visually Impaired, Deaf or Hard of
Hearing, and/or a Senior Citizen, by teaching them the skills
required to utilize public transportation; while working closely
with the Program Manager, Outreach Coordinator, and all outside
sources answering questions regarding the program and supporting
requests for monthly and quarterly reporting.Responsibilities: - -
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- Conduct assessment with clients and family in their home to
determine participants' functional skills, abilities, and necessary
training requirements.
- Maintain daily contact with family and/or other agency staff as
required for individual training.
- Teach while traveling on public transportation, and within the
community.
- Patience, compassion, and empathy for people with physical and/
or developmental disabilities, as well as senior citizens.
- Be a strong self-manager, team orientated with excellent
communication skills.
- Be able to solve problems independently in changing
environments.
- Knowledge of the local transit system.
- Make safety a top priority.
- Strong customer service skills, with a strong understanding of
working with individuals with physical and developmental
disabilities, and senior community.
- Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Knowledge of different disabilities, and the ability to
research disabilities, if needed, for a better understanding of the
student
- Conduct assessment with clients and family in their home to
determine participants' functional skills, abilities, and necessary
training requirements.
- Develop individual training plans for participants.
- Provide one-on-one field training to people with physical
and/or developmental disabilities, as well as senior citizens
community.
- Maintain accurate confidential documentation.
- Ability to teach independence skills to individuals with
physical and/or developmental disabilities
- Teach while traveling on public transportation, and within the
community.
- Prepare a final report on training activity at the
conclusion.
Qualifications
Talent Requirements:
- Education is equivalent to an AA degree from an accredited
institution, specializing in social services, special education,
preferred or two (2) years of experience providing instruction or
working one-on-one with a special demographics who display a
developmental and/or physical disability, as well as support our
senior population.
- Must have a valid Driver's license, good driving record, proof
of insurance, and own transportation.
- Must have a strong user knowledge of Word and Excel.
- Customer service skill in the field.
- Have a dedicated home office space for working remotely.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and detail
oriented, while demonstrating a concern for the safety of the
vulnerable population.
- Ability to self-manage in remote settings.
- Inspire confidence in the participants ability to independently
use public transportation safely through modeling professionalism,
and training.
- Showing a passion for our vulnerable populations by displaying
integrity, responsibility, dependability, punctuality, flexibility,
initiative, ability to communicate in simply clearly sentences is a
must.Starting Pay Rate: $27.62/hour - $27.80/hourHealthcare
Benefits: PPO Medical, Medical HSA, Prescription, Dental, Vision
(spouse and dependent children), Telemedicine, FSA, Life, AD&D,
Group Accident, LTD, STD, EAP, Critical Illness, Hospital
Indemnity, Substance Abuse Professionals programmingRetirement
Benefits: 401k and Union pension: the Company contributes to the
WCT Pension for each hour for which compensation is paid to maximum
of 2080 hours per calendar yearPaid Time Off: 0 mos - year 2 =
1.538 bi-weekly accrual w/ 40 yearly accrual capPaid Holidays: -8
paid holidaysMore Generous Paid Sick Leave: 1 hour/per 30 hours for
all FT employeesOther Compensation: $1,000.00 Driver referral bonus
($500.00 upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of
probationary period); $1,000.00 Mechanic referral bonus ($500.00
upon training completion and $500.00 upon completion of
probationary period)MV Transportation is committed to as policy of
Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an
applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed,
national origin or ancestry, sex, physical or mental disability,
veteran or military status, genetic information or any other
legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local
laws, regulations or ordinances. - The information collected by
this application is solely to determine suitability for employment,
verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
-Where permissible under applicable state and local law, applicants
may be subject to a pre-employment drug test and background check
after receiving a conditional offer of employment#CB
Keywords: MV Transportation, Kent , Transit Instructor, Education / Teaching , Kent, Washington
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