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Leicestershire County Council
Leicestershire County Council
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Leicester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Contract Type:

Permanent contracts available - up to 20 hours per week for school term time only or 52 weeks per annum (2 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon each day - dependant on the run so can be slightly longer).

We are currently looking to recruit a number of bus escorts for our Passenger Fleet Team.


Escorts are primarily responsible for transporting vulnerable adults and children with special educational needs including physical and /or learning difficulties to their School, Day Centres and other activities.

Escorts will ensure (along with the driver) their passengers' personal wellbeing and safe/secure travel at all times, in accordance with the job description, relevant Policies, legislation, Procedures and good practice.

If you enjoy working with people, in a role that really makes a difference to people's lives, we would like to hear from you.


Current vacancy packages available:


We are in the process of increasing our routes and will be looking for 5 days a week (20 hours Term time only) at some of our depots once we are in the position to start this work.


These depots may include:
Sapcote, Loughborough, Melton, Blaby, Mountsorrel, Croft and Nailstone.


We are also looking for:
Loughborough Depot - 5 days a week, Monday to Friday (split shift 4 hours per day - 20 hours per week, school term time only.

Loughborough Depot - Friday only (split shift 4 hours per day, school term time only.)

Mountsorrel Depot - Monday (split shift 4 hours per day - school term time only.

Mountsorrel depot - Monday to Friday 20 hours per week, split shift (temp for 6 months - potential to turn to perm)

Nailstone Depot - Monday and Tuesday (split shift 4 hours per day - 8 hours per week, school term time only.)

Plus:
Casual contracts (as and when needed to cover absences) available at all depots.


ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:


  • Working facetoface with the general public within a service provision environment providing customer care and quality services
  • Able to communicate effectively with people with varying capabilities, including those with challenging behaviours.
Please see the Job Description / Person Specification which are attached further down on this page.

For informal enquires please contact the Passenger Fleet team on


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Please see the link below to Environment and Transport's web pages for further information about the department, working for Leicestershire County Council and the job opportunities available.

The web pages also contain CV Guidance documents for Applicants to read and use.


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