Community Transport Driver

2 weeks ago

Lewisham, United Kingdom Age UK Lewisham and Southwark Full time

**Community Transport Driver**

**SALARY**: 12.18/hr

**HOURS**: Variable hours as required by the organisation, on a zero hours basis

**Person Specification**

**Essential Personal Qualities**
- Friendly, polite and patient
- Flexible and open to change
- Committed to the core aims and values of the organisation, including:

- Working as part of a highly diverse staff and volunteer work force
- Putting service users at the heart of our work
- Being positive and proactive in difficult situations
- Drive, energy and enthusiasm

**Essential Knowledge and Experience**
- Experience of a similar role, ideally within a community transport scheme
- Clean driving license with a minimum of one year experience driving
- Good communication skills
- Ability to learn and develop new skills and abilities
- Ability to understand the needs of disabled people

**Desirable Knowledge and Experience**
- Experience of driving a minibus, ideally MiDas qualified
- Experience working with disabled people
- Experience working with older people

**Essential Skills and Abilities**
- Ability to travel within Lewisham

The postholder must agree to undertake an enhanced DBS check
- We look forward to hearing from you.

Age UK Lewisham and Southwark (AUKLS) is a local, independent, self-funded charity that exists to improve the lives of older people in Lewisham and Southwark. Community Connections is a social prescribing project based in Lewisham, aiming to improve the health and wellbeing of vulnerable adults across the borough of Lewisham. We achieve this through working with both individuals who want connecting to services, and the community groups they access.

Community Connections also runs services for disabled adults in Lewisham, the role will be primarily supporting our community transport service. This scheme provides transport for disabled adults Lewisham who have physical and mental barriers to using public transport safely and confidently.

Community Connections Transport aims to provide comfortable, reliable and dignified transport for disabled adults in Lewisham who cannot use public transport. We have been funded to fulfil journeys to medical appointments, and the role will also involve fulfilling journeys to other appointments where our volunteer drivers are not available. These will include but aren’t limited to regular social groups in venues such as the Albany and Sydenham Gardens, other medical appointments, transport to college and much more.

**Job Type**: Zero hours contract

**Salary**: £12.18per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Lewisham, Greater London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Driving: 1 year (required)

Work Location: On the road

**Job Type**: Zero hours contract
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: £12.18 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: On the road

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