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Vicki Barton
299 Edwards Street
Youngstown, Ohio 44502
Email: vbarton@neo.easterseals.com
Interested applicants should complete the application and submit to vbarton@neo.easterseals.com Click here to download the PDF application.
SUMMARY:
Easterseals of Northeast Ohio is seeking an energetic and customer service-minded driver to serve our communities 40 hours per week. The right candidate for this position will provide home-delivered meal service support and transportation services to eligible consumers in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner. Requirements for the position are listed, but not limited to:
CORE VALUES:
Employees are committed to creating an environment that promotes health, happiness, independence, and safety by providing individuals with disabilities with increased opportunities for access, inclusion, and choice. Our decision-making is guided by our values of integrity, respect, humility, welcoming, and determination
BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide home-delivered meals and transportation service support to eligible consumers in a safe, timely, cost-effective manner.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Delivery of meals or providing transportation to clients based on the schedule or demands of the departments.
• Review route sheets of clients to be delivered daily.
• Pick up meals from a caterer and check loading totals on the order sheet.
• Deliver meals based on scheduled route sheets.
• Maintain accurate documentation, including mileage, delivery times, and meal delivery verification.
• Maintaining the most efficient delivery route and updating when new clients are added. All route changes need to be coordinated through the meal office.
• Maintain vehicles in accordance with state vehicle inspection requirements to ensure safe operation of the vehicle.
• Maintain the vehicle in a clean and sanitary manner as dictated by the safety and health, agency and departmental standards.
• Perform daily pre-trip inspections of vehicles to maintain road readiness.
• Fuel vehicles at the beginning or end of the route and while no clients are in attendance.
• Maintains accurate documentation, including mileage, pick-up and take-home times, initials, other trips, etc. on a daily basis. Collects donations (if applicable to client).
• Collects donations from clients as applicable and returns monies to the designated office area daily.
• Assist the Program Assistant in establishing the most efficient transportation route (the driver cannot change route without approval from the office).
• Coordinate routine maintenance of vehicles with the manager as necessary and submit receipts after completion of work.
• Assist clients to board and unload from the vehicle as required by their functional status.
• Ensure that wheelchairs are loaded onto the lift and secured with appropriate tie-downs as required.
• Ensure that the individuals being transported are secured in safety restraining devices as defined and required by law.
• Ensure that medical emergency transportation forms are on file in the van before transportation for required clients, are up to date as necessary, and are maintained confidentially.
• Account for the presence of all clients scheduled for transportation and ensure that no individual is left on the vehicle at any time.
• Observe all driving laws and agency policies as well as practices related to defensive driving.
• Immediately report any accidents, incidents, or road emergencies in accordance with established protocol.
• Maintain a clean driving record and a current, valid Ohio driver’s license. Report any traffic accidents, violations, or changes to driving privileges immediately.
• Reports clients to the office who do not respond to pick-up or who report.
• Displays a high level of motivation and a self-imposed standard of excellence
- Review route sheets of clients to be delivered daily.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Current, valid driver’s license with two years of driving experience.
• Clean driving record demonstrated through the abstract.
• Current Ohio motor vehicle insurance.
TRAINING REQUIRED:
• CPR/First Aid
• Passenger Assistance
• Defensive Driving
• Population-specific to include characteristics of persons served, client rights, etc.
• Ongoing policy education that governs our programming.
EQUIPMENT USED/MACHINERY REQUIRED TO OPERATE:
• Safely operate safely operate according to the laws.
• Mechanical/motorized lift.
• Wheelchair tie-downs/webbing loops.
• Telephone/Computer/General Office Equipment
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Requires sitting, standing, walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, and reaching.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50 pounds.
• Requires sitting, standing, walking, bending, squatting, kneeling, and reaching.
• Exposed to hot/cold temperatures.
• Potential exposure to infectious and/or communicable diseases.
• Exposed to noise/air quality associated with road travel.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
FLSA Status – Non-Exempt/$13.00 per hour
Classification – Full-time (40) hours per week
Benefits – PTO, sick time, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, voluntary benefits, employer-paid short-term disability and life insurance, 401(k) with match, no evenings or weekends
Drug-Free Workplace/EOE
