What's involved with this role:
Temporary Transport Officer / Admin - SEN & Social Care Transport *Re-opened*
Reference no: Oxfordshire 5250199
Pay rate: Up to £18.06 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 08:30 – 17:00
This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: OXFORD
Agile working with base in Oxford, must be willing to travel to office 5 days a week when required, preferably based close to the location
Basic DBS required for this role
A Transport Officer is required to join the Supported Transport team who manage transport for 12,000 vulnerable people a day, using around 750 vehicles ranging from coaches, taxis and an internal fleet of minibuses to over 100 different schools or social care establishments. This is an exciting time to join the Service with the council investing in a new Independent Travel Training Programme supporting children and young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to increase their independence in preparation for adulthood, being one of the first authorities to have real time information for school transport contracts and embracing active travel across the whole service. Agile working with base in Oxford, must be willing to travel to office 5 days a week when required, preferably based close to the location.
Key responsibilities:
This role is primarily focused on allocating children and vulnerable adults to contracted coaches, minibuses, and taxis, and procuring these forms of transport where they don't exist or if contracts have ended.
The team also offer direct travel payments to parents or season tickets on the public bus service.
There is a strong customer focus to the role, dealing with contractors, schools, social care establishment and most importantly the passengers and families involved, many of whom are vulnerable.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience of all Office packages.
Experience of GDPR.
Skills & Abilities:
Enthusiasm and strong organisational skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Good customer service skills.
Good attention to detail skills.
Able to prioritise workload.
A desire to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable people.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Job Ref: Oxfordshire 5250199
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