About HATS
Healthcare And Transport Services (HATS) Group provides services for the transport of children and adults with special needs for the majority of the London Boroughs and has operations across the UK. HATS also provides high-quality non-emergency and high dependency and mental health patient transport services (PTS) to the NHS, Local Authorities and their associated bodies.
Many of those service users and patients entrusted to HATS care are vulnerable individuals including those with severe learning difficulties, moderate learning difficulties, profound and multiple learning difficulties, complex needs, social, emotional and behavioural difficulties as well as mainstream.
Job Description
Passenger Assistant for School Minibus
This is a permanent role during school term time, it averages 16
This is a great role for caring and supportive passenger assistants who can travel with children and adults and reassure and support our service users as they travel on our transport. Your role is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of transport users throughout the journey and handover and to support the driver of the vehicle. You will work with the driver to assist service users to board and leave vehicles utilising appropriate means, including physically assisting passengers.
We will need you to participate in working flexible hours with general core working hours being between 07.00 - 09.00 and 14.30 – 16.30. The service provider’s normal place of work on a day-to-day basis is in a predominately outdoor environment on vehicles that transport clients from and to various locations, and is required to work in a safe and efficient manner in all weather, traffic and road conditions.
You will need to apply for an enhanced adults and children DBS to carry out this role as it is working with vulnerable children and adults.
We will provide comprehensive training for the successful candidates.
If you have the right experience to make a success of this role, then please apply.
Additional Information
HATS is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees as well as maintaining a workforce that broadly reflects the local communities we serve. In accordance with the Equality Act, we welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability.
Important:
· The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
· Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
· If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means that your application was not successful.
· During the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned and retained.
· If your role is patient or service user facing, you will be required to have a full enhanced adults and children DBS.
Work remotely
Job Type: Permanent
Pay: £12.71 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
