Mini Bus Driver

**Job Description
Mini Bus Driver**

**Grade: 3**(£28,521 - £30,189pa) - pro rata term time only (25 hours per week split shift £16,145)

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Location**:Central Depot or Havering Town Hall

**About Us**

At the London Borough of Havering’s Passenger Travel Services, we pride ourselves on being creative and self-driven. With our main objective of providing a quality run, cost effective service to all our clients / users.

The services main purpose is the conveyance by accessible buses of Adults or Children with learning or physical difficulties to Day Centres or Schools and then returning them home.

Our aim is to provide a safe quality driven customer focused service, whilst maximising fleet availability, achieving positive outcomes and reducing waiting times, route times with efficient route scheduling.

**About the Job**

**Transport Mini Bus Drivers role is to carry out the following**:
We require 1 Mini Bus Driver to join our operations team based at Central Depot in Hornchurch.

Drivers will be assigned to routes with the main objective of safely conveying (Children and Adults with disabilities) with a passenger assistant in attendance, to various in borough / outer borough locations.

Drivers can also be assigned to Ad-hoc work which can be out of borough trips.

This is a 25hr per week Term Time only contract on a split shift Mon to Friday

**About You**
- Experience of conveying or working with vulnerable clients (Adults & Children)
- Experience of Driving Mini Buses and the usage of Tail lifts.
- Ability to maintain safe performance standards and be part of a large team.
- Must be able to communicate clearly across the company, its clients and its customers
- Must be able to have good clear writing skills
- Be practical, efficient and able to prioritise workload in a busy working environment
- Be enthusiastic about joining a dynamic local authority and be
- proactive in identifying opportunities to improve quality and productivity
- Flexible approach to working hours including O/T
- Holder of a (clean) minimum category D1 licence
- Desirable - evidence of any Training courses attended e.g. First Aid, Safe Guarding Vulnerable Clients, etc.

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- About Us
With its excellent transport links into central London, extensive town centre regeneration and the highest concentration of green space anywhere in London, Havering has a unique offer as a place to live, work and visit. By making the most of its position and opportunities, Havering is becoming a hub for start-ups and expanding businesses, as well as construction, logistics, engineering and manufacturing industries.- Find out _why you should work for Havering Council _._