Mini Bus Driver

Mini Bus Driver

Grade: 3 (£29,436 - £31,158) – pro rata term time only (25 hours per week split shift £17,593).

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:

Central Depot or Havering Town Hall

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

The service’s 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 maximizing fleet availability, achieving positive outcomes and reducing waiting times, route times with efficient route scheduling.

The Transport Mini Bus Driver role is to carry out the following:

We require 2 Minibus Drivers 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 25 hour per week Term Time only contract on a split shift Mon to Fri.

• 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, safeguarding vulnerable clients, etc.

Please view Job Profile here.

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The closing date for the receipt of applications is 15/3/26; however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

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