Escort

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Various locations detailed below

Worker Category: Field Based Worker 

Salary: £22,374- £22,530 per annum (pro-rata for part time)

Working Hours:  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).

Contract Type: Permanent and Casual

Closing Date: 11th December 2024

Interview Date(s): Various dates available

About the Role

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:

Loughborough Depot – 2 x 5 days a week, Monday to Friday (split shift 4 hours per day – 20 hours per week, school term time

Nailstone Depot – 1 x 5 days a week Monday to Friday (split shift 4 hours per day – 20 hours per week, school term time

Blaby Depot - 1 x 5 days a week, Monday to Friday (split shift 4 hours per day – 20 hours per week, school term time

Croft Depot - 1 x 5 days a week, Monday to Friday (split shift 4 hours per day – 20 hours per week, school term time

Melton 1 x 4 hours per week on a Friday (split shift term time only) 

Plus: Casual contracts (as and when needed to cover absences) available at all depots. Which includes: Sapcote, Loughborough, Melton, Blaby, Mountsorrel, Croft and

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

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About You

The post holder must have experience or knowledge in::

Working face-to-face with the general public within a service provision environment providing customer care and quality services

Keeping written records / documentation in a neat and tidy manner and sufficiently numerate to complete 

Able to communicate effectively with people with varying capabilities, including those with challenging behaviours.

Ability, with training, to undertake a series of moving and handling operations associated with the transport of people and static loads

Must be willing, after training, to administer first aid, medication and rescue medication as and when required

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Lisa Weir, Team Manager - Passenger Fleet

Telephone: 0116 305 7573

Email:

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement that is no longer than 250 words as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the  section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: . 

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