Community Transport Co-ordinator – Braintree District Council

TN United Kingdom; Essex; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Braintree District Council is seeking a Community Transport Co-ordinator to oversee transport services for residents. This full-time role involves coordinating transport needs, managing schedules, and ensuring service quality. The position offers a salary range of £25,795 to £28,861 per annum, with hybrid working arrangements and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Hybrid working arrangements

Free parking

Learning and development

Health and wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Excellent, adaptable communication skills.
• Organized and able to manage workload.
• Computer literate.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate transport requirements for residents and groups.
• Plan and schedule work for drivers.
• Liaise with clients and manage transport needs.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Planning

Tools

Flexi route booking system

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21.05.2025

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Job Description:

Community Transport Co-ordinator - Braintree District Council

Braintree District Council

Fixed Term,Full Time

£25,795 to £28,861 per annum

Location:Braintree

Contract type: Fixed term until 31st March 2026

Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Braintree Council to recruit this role.

The Opportunity:

We have a fixed term opportunity for a Community Transport Co-ordinator to join our team. The Braintree Community Transport Scheme provides a social car scheme and minibus hire to residents, community groups and schools across the Braintree District. The scheme is membership based and provides transport to health and social appointments, shopping, events and local activities.

The role will co-ordinate the transport requirements of residents and groups, ensuring they can get to events in their local community, appointments, shopping trips and visiting friends and relatives, which contributes to improving their well-being and quality of life.

The role will be office based, liaising with a wide client base on the telephone to co-ordinate their transport needs.

Experience:

The successful candidate will need excellent, adaptable communication skills to deal with members of the public, taking into consideration the vulnerable client group, community groups and schools as well as liaising with volunteer drivers and other council departments.

The post holder will need to be organised and be able to plan and manage their workload. This is alongside planning and scheduling the work of the paid and volunteer drivers as well as ensuring the minibus fleet and the cars used by volunteers are maintained in line with the legalities of running a community transport scheme.

As part of the role, you will be provided with training on the flexi route booking system and need to be computer literate.

Braintree District Council is an ambitious and forward-thinking authority with a vision of creating for our residents and businesses.

As a Council our role is as a guardian of the place and its people; where residents live well in healthy and resilient communities; a well-connected district with high-quality homes delivered with the infrastructure and a place which attracts and provides good employment opportunities.

We are becoming one of the fastest growing Districts in the East of England with three growing towns, London just 45 minutes away and the district located directly between the international transport centres of Stansted Airport and Harwich and Felixstowe International Ports. We have a deserved for delivering and within the business community.

Braintree District Council is to work. We pride ourselves on our creative and innovative approach which is led by our staff. We are committed to having an engaged workforce who understand our strategy and how they can help deliver it. Some of the benefits of working for Braintree District Council are:

• Hybrid working arrangements are available in this role (home/office based) subject to business need
• Free parking
• Learning and development for all staff
• Extensive health and wellbeing programme including discounted gym membership.

Interviews will be held 5th June 2025

This role is being advertised on behalf of Braintree District Council therefore all applications must be submitted via the Braintree District Council . Please note any applications submitted via the Working for Essex ‘apply’ button will be advised to reapply via the Braintree District Council .

Braintree District Council is proud to be a disability confident employer. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

Braintree District Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees to share this commitment.