Independent Travel Trainer
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Grade: BR6
Salary: £27,262
Contract: Permanent / Full-Time/ 36 Hours per week
Working Hours: Monday to Friday. Flexibility in working hours is required to accommodate school start and finish times
(Outside of normal office hours).
Location: Bromley Civic Centre and out in the community
Working Pattern: The Admissions and Transport Team is based in the Civic Centre, but the team has flexibility for working in
the office in addition to working from home.
Do you have experience of working with children with additional educational needs or disabilities? Are you a caring and compassionate person with the patience and confidence to make a lasting difference to people lives? Are you able to plan prepare and support people with the safe use of public transport and pedestrian safety?
We are seeking an Independent Travel Trainer to support children, young people and adult’s resident in the London Borough of Bromley with accessing their place of learning and/or day centres. This is rewarding work that will help children and adults with additional needs to travel independently to and from school/college and appropriate day care settings.
The postholder will work with the Travel Training Co-Ordinator, School Transport Operations Manager and the Admissions and Transport Services Manager to further develop and deliver the travel training programme across Bromley.
Duties will include the planning and risk assessing of safe travel arrangements, implementing control measures to maintain strong safety driven procedures for children and young people whilst out in the community. The postholder will also need to regularly monitor and evaluate the child/young person’s progress and keep accurate evidence to provide positive and constructive feedback to young people, their families, and schools in relation to their training.
Strong communication skills (written and oral) and excellent interpersonal skills are required to work with families and schools to deliver travel training and to build good working relationships and trust. This will involve meetings with families to discuss travel training for their child, meetings with schools and presenting information to senior colleagues as required.
The postholder will need to have strong organisational skills and be able to work independently with minimal daily supervision, manage their own workload and prioritise referrals effectively.
This role will be expected to engage with any professional networks of travel trainers to ensure best practice is maintained including the development and continual improvements of policies and procedures.
This is a full-time position within the Admissions and Transport Team based in the Civic Centre, but the team has flexibility for working in the office in addition to working from home. evening and weekend working.
This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check For further information regarding this position, please contact the Admissions and Transport Manager, Simon Harrington-Whitnall, on 020 8313 4809 or via email at
[email protected]
Closing date for receiving applications: Wednesday 9 September 2026.
Interviews will be held on Tuesday 15 September 2026.
Applications will be assessed based on the criteria set out in the Job Description and Person Specification, which can be found here
Our values and behaviours have a key part to play in how staff carry out the work of the Council and how we engage and build working relationships with key partner agencies. This framework outlines the desired behaviours that align with our established values, to help create a workforce that are able to deliver services that are seen as ‘excellent’ in the eyes of local people.
We are forces family friendly and are part of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme (Bronze Award). We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
We are committed to achieving equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and as a disability confident committed employer we encourage applications from people with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we will consider reasonable adjustment to support disability employment.
We offer a generous package including competitive pay, career average pension scheme, flexible working practices and the Bromley employee benefits scheme; Cycle2Work, Salary Sacrifice Lease Car, Technology Scheme, GymFlex and a wide range of local and national discounts.
Please note that we do not accept CV submissions from permanent recruitment agencies. If you are a candidate and would like to contact the Recruitment Team regarding the application process, please email [email protected]
