Contingency Driver (Term-Time): Flexible Routes & Joining Bonus

Kinect Services Limited; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 21,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term-time-only working

Joining bonus

Full induction and ongoing training

Job summary

Kinect Services Limited is seeking contingency drivers to keep children and vulnerable adults mobile across Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas. You may be deployed to different routes on short notice, including mornings, with term-time hours.

You will provide safe transport, adapt quickly to changing plans, and work with our Operations Team to maintain high standards of safeguarding and customer service. A joining bonus is available for eligible drivers with a local authority licence.

Qualifications

• Flexible and adaptable to changing transport plans.
• Calm, professional communicator with strong people skills.
• Reliable, punctual driver able to manage routine and non-routine situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and reliable transport for children and vulnerable adults.
• Cover planned and unplanned driver absences across routes.
• Drive different routes across the allocated operational area and respond to short-notice changes.
• Work with the Operations Team and follow updated instructions.
• Maintain safeguarding, professionalism and punctuality.

Skills

Flexibility

Calm under pressure

Empathetic communicator

Reliability

Punctuality

Adaptability

Education

Enhanced DBS clearance

Job description

Kinect Services Limited is seeking contingency drivers to keep children and vulnerable adults mobile across Cambridgeshire and surrounding areas. You may be deployed to different routes on short notice, including mornings, with term-time hours.

You will provide safe transport, adapt quickly to changing plans, and work with our Operations Team to maintain high standards of safeguarding and customer service. A joining bonus is available for eligible drivers with a local authority licence.