Melissa Driver

To provide reliable, safe and efficient delivery of the MELISSA bus to specified locations at specified times, as and when required. This is an education facility, and no passengers are carried on the bus.
- Drive the bus, safely and on time to and from specific events.
- Work with management to understand location and position requirements of the facility.
- Ensure vehicle is checked, each trip, with necessary paperwork completed and maintained in accordance with Northumbria Trust policies, and that of the MELISSA Service Team.
- Refuel and clean the facility, as and when required.
- Provide basic assistance to the MELISSA crew, if required, including basic set up of the facility, awning and training kit.
- Any other duties as deemed appropriate by the MELISSA Management

team.
- You will be expected to have basic functional skills, including literacy, mathematics and digital skills. Digitally literacy is the ability to locate, organise, understand, evaluate and analyse information using digital sources.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.

High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Dimensions
- Drive the bus, safely and on time to and from specific events.
- Work with project management to understand location and position requirements of

the facility.
- Ensure vehicle is checked, each trip, with necessary paperwork completed and maintained in accordance with Northumbria Trust policies, and that of the MELISSA service.
- Refuel and clean the facility, as and when required.
- Provide basic assistance to the MELISSA crew, if required, including basic set up of the facility.
- Any other duties as deemed appropriate by the MELISSA Project Management team

Communications and Relationships
- Able to communicate to members of staff and public, whilst driving and moving the bus in a professional manner
- Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
- General Education
- Must have a clean license, with no convictions or endorsements.
- Must be able to concentrate for long periods of time for safe driving throughout the day
- Must have literacy/numeracy skills for checking or processing paperwork, special instructions, directions
- A knowledge of relevant policies and procedures
- An awareness of health and safety - COSHH re safe transportation/delivery/storage

of various items etc.
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid, clean, relevant driving license to drive a double decker bus Class C or C1, and is able to get to base using other means of transport.

Analytical Skills
- Makes judgements involving straightforward job related facts such as decisions on driving routes, such as:

- Able to use the onboard sat nav system to ensure hazards are avoided
- Able to calculate routes to ensure fuel stops are factored in

Planning & Organisational Skills
- Organises the allocated work of a routine nature

Physical Skills
- Skills for driving a heavy good vehicle

Patient/Client care
- Incidental contact with patients

Policy & Service Development
- To adhere to relevant policies and procedures
- An awareness of health and safety - COSHH re safe transportation/delivery/storage

of items etc

Financial & Physical Resources
- Observes duty of care for vehicle and equipment used on a daily basis

Human Resources
- Assist in the induction of new bus driving staff
- Assist in the training of new bus driving staff

Information Resources
- Signs checklists and makes MELISSA Project Management aware of any concerns with the vehicle
- You will be expected to have basic functional skills, including literacy, mathematics and digital skills. Digitally literacy is the ability to locate, organise, understand, evaluate and analyse information using digital sources. This is in line with ‘digital readiness indicator for health and social care’, which has been developed in the Building a Digital Ready Workforce Programme (BDRW), between Health Education England (HEE) and NHS Digital, and is part of the Government’s Digital Transformation Portfolio (DTP) (2019)

Research & Development
- Assist in surveys and audits in own work place

Freedom to Act
- Works within the policies and proced