Passenger Assistant

**Ref**: G2/OL-75214

**Contract**: Permanent

**Salary**: £21,189. (pro rata per annum)

**Hours**: Part time

**Based**: Field Work, On Buses travelling to Schools within and outside of Oldham

**Closing Date**: Sunday 12th March 2023

**Shortlisting & Interview Dates**: TBC.

Job Description & Person Specification.docx

**Role Overview**:
To be responsible for the supervision, care, well-being, and safety of children with special educational needs while they are transported to and from school in transport provided or commissioned by the Council.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To be responsible for the comfort, safety, and well-being of pupils, to ensure their safe arrival at school or home as appropriate.
- To provide a link between home and school as appropriate
- To contribute to a customer-orientated approach, to ensure that Service users receive an efficient, high-quality service

**Key Requirements**:
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

- Must be able to respond to changing circumstances, for example pupils across the age ranges 4 to 25 years with learning, physical and / or behavioural difficulties, journeys within and across the Oldham boundary to mainstream and special schools.
- Must be able to communicate sensitively and confidentially with adults and children.
- Must be able to meet a child’s individual care needs.

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**About Us**:
Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

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