Casual Bus Driver

Principal Accountabilities:

• To promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and/or vulnerable adults.
• Drive a local authority vehicle between client’s homes, schools and day centres, ensuring the clients safety and wellbeing in collaboration with the vehicles escort/passenger assistant.
• Provide necessary assistance to clients in relation to the safe entry and exit from the vehicles including the operation of tail lifts and ensuring passenger comfort and safety by checking seat belts and wheelchair restraints.
• Reports any issues of concerns regarding the client’s health, wellbeing and safety to the Senior Transport Officer or Charge-hand accordingly whilst exercising discretion at all times.
• Undertakes to work with co-workers in attending to the personal needs of clients where required.
• Ensures the safe operation of the vehicle in accordance with the Councils Corporate Driving Policy including daily vehicle checks and the accurate and timely reporting of any mechanical defects.
• Maintains accurate and daily vehicle checks Driver to ensure all faults are recorded and reported to the Supervisor/Charge Passenger records to be kept up to date and stored in a safe environment when vehicle is not in use.
• Ensures the vehicle is kept clean and tidy, both internally and externally.
• Maintains an awareness and understanding of clients profound learning disabilities, memory impairment, physical disabilities, challenging behaviour etc.
• Driver to ensure that all training requirements offered are undertaken in order the team to maintain the service delivery.
• The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and associated legislation places responsibilities for health and safety on Hull City Council, as your employer and you as an employee of the council. In addition to the Councils overall duties, the post holder has personal responsibility for their own health & safety and that of other employees; additional and more specific responsibilities are identified in the Council’s Corporate H&S policy.

Compensation Grades:

• GRADES 3.

Pay Ranges: £12.85 - £12.85

Job Classifications:

• 3- Not Politically Restricted - Designated As Not Politically Sensitive (Politically Restricted Posts)
• 8- Enhanced & Childrens & Adults Barring List - (Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS))
• Casual - (Travel Allowance Policy)
• No - (Childcare Disqualification Requirement)
• No - (Statutory Post)

Benefits of Working for Hull City Council:

• A competitive salary
• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Initially 23 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off, one in May/August and one during the Christmas/New year period
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods
• Supportive and forward-thinking culture
• Great career development opportunities

Please ensure that you complete and submit your application by midnight prior to the closing date. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.

We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Online searches, including social media, may be carried out as part of the recruitment process.