Bikeability Driver

**Pay Rate**: £10.00 per hour contracted

We would also consider this role on a freelance basis (separate pay rate)

**Contract type**: Fixed Term contract initially until 31st March 2023

**Hours**:Approximately 10 hours per week. Monday and Friday. Additional hours may be available, especially during school holidays.

**Location**: Birmingham

**Introduction to The Active Wellbeing Society**

The Active Wellbeing Society is a community benefit society and cooperative working to develop healthy, happy communities living active and connected lives.

Our vision is for a society where people have the autonomy, capacity, resources and skills to become the architects of their own destiny; where our individual wellbeing is recognised as being bound up in our collective responsibility to and dependency on each other; and where all of us feel empowered as agents of social change to make a difference - whether at an individual level or more widely.

By working collaboratively with communities we aim to bring about sustainable change on an social, environmental and economic level; to do the social knitting required to create stronger and more resilient communities and to support communities to identify, mitigate and remove the barriers that prevent them from living active and connected lives.

Our mission is to ‘Use physical activity, guided by innovation, collaboration and insight, to do the collaborating and development required to create stronger and more resilient communities’.

You may like to watch this introductory video which showcases the positive work of The Active Wellbeing Society: TAWS Launch October 2018 - YouTube

**Introduction to the role**

This role is responsible for transporting bikes and equipment from our Birmingham based depot to schools across Birmingham. You will plan routes and load and unload bikes and equipment from the van. You will be part of the Bikes Team including our mechanic, Bikeability Lead and Bikeability instructors. The role would suit someone with an interest in cycling (although not essential).

**Introduction to Bikeability**
- Bikeability is a city-wide project delivered by The Active Wellbeing Society in Birmingham under contract from The Bikeability Trust.
- Its aim is to train young people to cycle to the National Bikeability Standard.
- The Active Wellbeing Society trains over 10,000 young people in schools to cycle each year.
- The delivery of Bikeability relies on bikes and equipment being transported around the city between our storage unit and schools.
- There is also a community element to Bikeability which needs our bikes and equipment to be transported to community venues.

**Main Duites**

1. To drive a long wheelbase van transporting bikes and equipment from our Birmingham based depot to schools across Birmingham.

2. To regularly load bikes and equipment on and off the van.

3. To be able to create route plans to get from A to B quickly in the safest most efficient manner.

4. To liaise with staff in the bikes team, including our mechanic and Bikeability instructors, to understand the tasks which need to be completed.

5. To be polite, courteous, and welcoming with school staff, students, and residents with whom you will come into contact when dropping off and picking up bikes.

6. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

**Knowledge, Skills and experience**

1. A confident driver.

2. Hold a full manual driving licence (in your current UK address), with no more than six penalty points (clean licence is preferred).

3. Good communicator with internal and external teams.

4. Ability to follow instructions and work to tight deadlines.

**Staff Benefits**

We offer our team members a comprehensive staff benefits offering to include:

- Nest Pension - 8% employer contribution - 3 % employee contribution.
- Heath Cash Plan - giving you discounts on everyday healthcare such as dental, optical, physio, prescriptions & more.
- Employee Assistance Programme (counselling and DRs on call 24hrs a day)
- Life Assurance - x4 your salary paid to beneficiary.
- Annual Leave - 25 days FTE (increasing to 29 days with service) plus 5 wellbeing days
- Flexible working
- Fantastic volunteering opportunities within The Active Wellbeing Society every month

**These benefits be available if directly employed by us on a contracted basis. They are not available if employed on a freelance status.**

5. Competent in route planning and following directions.

6. A good team player.

7. Comfortable to undertake regular manual handling.

8. Adaptable and willing to take on other duties as reasonably required.

**Application Details**

Please submit a Cover Letter and CV addressing the experience you have had relevant to the 'Main Duties' and the 'Knowledge & Skills' sections of the advert, paying attention to the following:
A full UK manual driving licence with no more than six penalty points (clean licence i