Passenger Assistant for School Runs

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom 247 Airport Transfer Full time

**We operate a good number of school runs in London and we are looking for Passenger Assistants that are living in**:

- North London_: Haringey council, Enfield council, Essex county council
- East London_: Waltham Forest council, Redbridge council, Thurrock Council, Essex county council
- Central London_: Lambeth council (exemption list for CCZ)
- South East London_: Lewisham council, Bexley council
- South London_: Merton council, Surrey county council
- West London_: Hounslow council, Buckinghamshire council

**Job Title**: Passenger Assistant
**Salary**: from 1st of April £11.50 -£12.00 per hour depending on experience and skills
**Part-Time**: 16 - 30 hours
**Location**: London

**The Role**:
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic, flexible individual who is calm under pressure with good communication and people skills with regard to children (most of them have a special education need). You will need to be a team player, working closely with the driver transporting children with an enhanced care requirement, ensuring their comfort and safety.

A key task in this role is to physically assist children as necessary and help them on and off the vehicle.

The role involves working on a split shift to take children from home to school in the morning and return them home in the afternoon.

A full package of training will be provided to support you in this specialist role of Passenger Assistant should you be successful.

For further information on this position please contact the Recruitment Admin on 07918644198, or the Account Manager SEN Department on 07476310089.

The Passenger Assistant collection and drop off point is either from home, or agreed meeting point or child's home address (travel costs will be covered).

**Applying**:
Please write your submission with consideration for the essential and desirable criteria on the Person Specification. This should include examples why you should be considered; the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post.
Please find a brief Person Specification and Job Description below.

**Interview Date**:to be confirmed

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Post Title**:Passenger Assistant

QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING:
It is **essential **that the post holder has:

- Enhanced DBS/CRB certificate not older than three years

It is desirable that the post holder has:

- PATS Training
- Paediatric First Aid

EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE:
It is desirable that the post holder has:

- Experience of working in a caring environment
- Experience of working with passengers with special needs.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
It is **essential **that the post holder has:

- The ability to understand and carry out instructions accurately while working without direct supervision
- Reliable and trustworthy
- The flexibility to work at short notice
- The ability to work a variable pattern
- A caring nature
- The ability to communicate orally (good level of spoken English)
- The ability to understand and maintain the confidentiality of their work
- Physically able to manage the demands of the role, including having the ability to bend, stretch, reach, twist, turn and kneel, within the confined spaces of a passenger transport vehicle, according to the instructions provided.

ADDITIONAL FACTORS:
It is **essential** that the post holder has:

- The ability to undertake training appropriate to the post
- The ability to move passengers if required and where safe to do so, including pushing and manoeuvring wheelchair users and clamping the wheelchairs into the vehicle. Manual handling training will be provided.
- The ability to carry bags and other service user luggage and lift this onto the vehicle

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**Passenger Assistant**

**Reporting to**: Passenger Assistant will liaise with the Controller's Department and SEN Department Manager

**Responsible for**: Supervision of the service user and ensuring the safety of the journey for everyone.

**Main purpose of job**:To actively escort passengers on transport who will be either vulnerable or SEN pupils (many of them will have a mild to severe special need) to and from their destination to ensure their comfort and safety.

**Responsibilities, duties and tasks**:
1. To monitor the number of passengers on the vehicle, and ensure that only authorised users travel.

2. To assist/supervise the passenger whilst boarding and alighting vehicles, including pushing and manoeuvring wheelchair users and carrying and lifting bags and luggage as necessary.

3. To ensure that safety standards are maintained at all times by ensuring that doors are properly closed, seatbelts fastened, child seats correctly fitted and child locks in use where appropriate, and wheelchairs are clamped appropriately to secure wheelchair user passengers (where applicable).

4. To actively assist with the use of passenger lifting equipment where required.

5. To ensure the safe evacuation of the vehicle and supervision of passengers in the event of an emergency, when visi

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