SEND Mini-Bus Drivers (Surrey)

E-zec Medical Transport Services Ltd.; Addlestone; On-site; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking community care team as a SEND Mini-Bus Driver, where you will play a crucial role in transporting children with special educational needs to healthcare facilities. This position offers a supportive work environment with flexible hours during term time, allowing you to make a positive impact in your community. Enjoy competitive pay along with a range of benefits, including life assurance, mental health support, and a pension scheme. If you have a passion for service and a commitment to safety, this is the perfect opportunity to thrive in a rewarding role.

Benefits

Life Assurance

24/7 GP Consultation

Cash-plan Benefits

Mental Health Consultations

Legal Advice Access

Financial Guidance

Paid Holiday Entitlement

Pension Scheme

Uniform Provided

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Must hold a full UK manual driving licence with no more than 6 penalty points.
• Category D Licence and CPC qualification are required.

Responsibilities

• Transport clients safely and responsibly in a 16-seater vehicle.
• Report any safeguarding concerns or incidents to the line manager.

Skills

Full UK Manual Driving Licence

Category D Licence

CPC Qualification

Effective Communication

Customer Service Skills

Team Collaboration

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for SEND Mini-Bus Drivers to join our Community Care Team based in Addlestone.

As a Driver with EMED you will work as part of a team to transport members of our local communities in a 16-seater, wheelchair accessible vehicle.

We are looking for experienced drivers who hold a D Licence, Minibus Driver to join our team to deliver care in the community by transporting Special Educational and Disability Needs (SEND) transport for children to and from healthcare facilities, i.e. schools and other learning hubs to repatriation and travel to specialist education centres.

This role is Monday-Friday, term time only and working split shifts 06:30-09:00 and 15:00-17:30(Example shifts, these can vary depending on travel time). 20-30hrs pw.

Some of the benefits can you expect:

• £14.00 p/h
• Life Assurance – providing colleagues and their family financial peace of mind and protection to the value of £5,000.
• 24/7 online/telephone GP Consultation and access to prescriptions.
• 2nd opinion medical support following diagnosis or where a colleague is on a treatment pathway.
• Cash-plan benefits, providing colleagues the option of protecting themselves in case of illness and recuperation, including dental, optical, chiropody.
• Access to mental health consultations.
• Access to physiotherapy consultations.
• Access to legal advice on domestic issues e.g. motoring offences, wills and probate, and personal injury.
• Financial guidance re retirement planning, tax savings and state benefits.
• Long Service Recognition Scheme – recognising colleagues for their continued service after 5 years and at 5-year intervals with an increase in annual leave.
• Values-based Internal Recognition Scheme with financial reward, which will lead to an annual recognition event.
• Refer a Friend recruitment incentive scheme with financial rewards.
• The EMED foundation, to provide support to colleagues and our local communities.
• Paid holiday entitlement of 28days inclusive of bank holidays
• Pension Scheme.
• Blue Light Card.
• Uniform provided.
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) to support a range of health and wellbeing requirements.
• Flu vaccination (through an internal campaign in Autumn/Winter).

Main Duties:

• Responsible for a high standard and safe transportation of clients
• As a Driver with EMED you will work as part of a team to transport members of our local communities in a 16-seater, wheelchair accessible vehicle
• To report any safeguarding concerns/incidents or accidents to your line manager
• Undertake all training that is required for the role.

Successful candidates will have:

• A full UK manual driving licence (no more than 6 penalty points)
• Will hold a Category D Licence Licence
• Must hold a CPC qualification
• Be an effective and confident communicator
• Strong customer service and people skills
• Naturally demonstrate team collaboration

Please note that this role will be subject to several regulatory pre-employment checks, and you will be asked to provide details of your full employment history should you be invited to an interview. Your HMRC record, available to download from the Government Gateway may help you in preparing this information when required.

Our Values

Collaborative – We work as one team with a shared purpose to meet the needs of our patients, passengers, colleagues, customers, communities, and the planet.
Agile – We listen, learn and adapt to improve the business, each other, and ourselves.
Reliable – We do what we say we will do, we take responsibility and we behave with integrity.
Empowered – We are confident and committed to taking responsibility to deliver the highest quality service.

About Us

The exciting merger of ERS Medical and E-Zec Medical has enabled us to rebrand, therefore as a combined business we are now known as EMED Group. We are the largest Patient Transport and Care Partner to the NHS with more than 2,500 colleagues across 50 depots. Our ambition is to continue developing transport services that improve the health and wellbeing for people across our local communities by providing transport that supports patient care, community support, secure mental health and medical courier services.

EMED Group are committed to providing equal opportunities and we endeavour to provide an inclusive and safe working culture for all.