Driver

Job title:

Driver

Company

Somerset County Council

Job description

We’d also like to use analytics cookies so we can understand how you use our website and make improvements to your services.Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookiesSearchSearch Somerset CouncilPopular searchesJobDriverClosing in 23 days (2 January, 2025)Salary £24,404 to £25,183 per annum
Department Planning and Transport
Working pattern Full Time
Location Somerton
Closing date 2 January, 2025About the job

• Based in Somerton.
• Our peak hours 6.00am-10.00am and 2.30pm-7.00pm Monday to Friday, other opportunities may be available, also weekend work will be required at all locations.
• 37 hours per week.
• This is a permanent position.

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

• The transportation of service users in a safe and timely manner.
• Completion of daily vehicle checks before use.
• Safe operation of Somerset Council vehicles.
• Delivering a friendly and reliable service for our service users.
• Serving the community with local rural bus services.

We support children with special educational needs and disabilities to and from home/school, Adults with learning disabilities to and from day centres as well as taking people to social care appointments and various other tasks – covering routes to help and enhance lives across Somerset.We offer ongoing support, training, and guidance to help you be the best you can be. This includes a full induction programme and training in passenger care, disability awareness, moving and handling people and wheelchairs, Emergency aid, child protection and behaviour management to ensure you are fully equipped in your role. But it will really help if you have:

• A Category D1 on your driving licence.
• Good time keeping skills.
• Patience with a caring nature to support service users on a daily basis.

We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.We’re proud to be here for the people of Somerset. And that means everyone in Somerset. An important part of this is ensuring that we are as diverse and inclusive as the people and communities we serve.We welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich our team. You can always contact the hiring manager for a chat if there’s anything you want to talk about before you apply.We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset.

We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

For an informal chat about the role, you can contact please contact Angela Greenway via email angela.greenway@somerset.gov.uk or telephone 07976 691768.Salary £24,404 to £25,183 per annumWe recommend applying as soon as possible, depending on the level of response, we anticipate conducting interviews ahead of the closing date.If you have all the information you need, just hit the apply button – we can’t wait to hear from you.This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.Related informationIs this page useful? Yes NoThank you for your feedbackIf you’d like to send us more details about your experience you can use our feedback form. This will be used to make improvements across the website.CloseThank you for your feedbackTo help us improve somerset.gov.uk, we would like to know more about your website visit today. It would really help if you could fill in our feedback form. It will take only 2 minutes.CloseThank you for your feedbackGet in touchpage for more information and advice on how to get in touch with one of our support teams

Expected salary

£24404 – 25183 per year

Location

Somerton, Somerset

Job date

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:56:17 GMT

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