Passenger Assistant

5 days ago

West Sussex, United Kingdom Business Smart Solutions Full time

**Join us - make a difference in our communities**
- WSCC operate a range of home to school and adults services transport routes across the County.
- Our aim at WSCC is to provide a reliable and safe transport service to our
- residents ensuring consistency for all passengers and service users.

**About the job**
- To support children with special needs on their way to and from school or college.
- To support vulnerable adults on their journeys to and from day centres, training courses and other venues.
- To undertake a variety of tasks which support the Transport Provision team.
- To understand and adhere to all relevant procedures including safeguarding.

**Key responsibilities**
- Working from a known procedure, making minor decisions on a day to day basis e.g. deciding when enough time has been spent waiting at a designated stop for a late child.
- To remain alert during all journeys when passengers are on board. You will be required to concentrate to ensure that all the passengers are safe and cared for over the course of the journey, and during pick up and drop off times.
- You will require stamina, and some considerable physical effort, for example pushing a wheelchair or assisting children on and off the bus. You will also require a degree of physical mobility in order to reach for a passenger who is “running off” and needs to be steered towards their destination.
- You will spend your working time either travelling on a mini bus, a taxi or a car, or climbing in and out of the vehicle, securing passengers and their equipment safely, or sitting/standing at a school or centre, waiting for the passengers to arrive.

**Things to note**
- Pre-screening requirements include DBS certificate and references covering 5 years
- If you do not have transport to travel to work, arrangements can be made to be collected from your home - should you be successful

**Requirements**:
**What you’ll need to succeed**
- Be a positive role model in your interactions with children and adults using the service.
- Be familiar with, and adhere to, the values of WSCC and be compliant with key regulations i.e. Health and Safety/Safeguarding, standards and procedures.
- Be physically able to undertake all the required caring aspects of the role.
- Be able to work as part of a committed and dynamic team to achieve the shared goal of delivering consistent and outstanding service.

**Required experience and skills**
- (These will be used as the shortlisting criteria)_

**Key Skills**:
1. Very good communication skills, in order to communicate effectively with adults and children with special needs, their carers, family members and

teachers; reporting any problems to parents, carers, teachers etc. and transferring information between the different venues (for example, school

and home). This includes the ability to convey urgent messages by mobile telephone.

2. High levels of patience and sensitivity, able to deal effectively with adults and children with either medical or behavioural needs, calmly and with care for their wellbeing.

3. Basic literacy and numeracy skills in order to answer questions from the passengers, fill in time sheets and write incident reports.

4. Able to understand and communicate in basic non-verbal signals - such as an adult unable to speak pointing to something they want. A basic

understanding of Makaton in order to communicate with those passengers with learning difficulties.

**Qualifications and/or experience**:

- Previous experience working with, or caring for, children or adults, in some capacity, including voluntary work, paid work or through family commitments.
- Knowledge of how to operate and secure items such as booster seats, wheel chairs and similar devices.
- Basic first aid training.

**Job Type**: Temp to perm
Contract length: 3 months

**Salary**: £11.50 per hour

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- The position is based in Worthing or Broadbridge Heath, please indicate your preference
- Please confirm that you meet the 4 requirements noted under the Key Skills section of the advert.

**Experience**:

- working with, or caring for, children: 1 year (required)
- in a similar role: 2 years (preferred)

Reference ID: RQ659336

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