- Pay Rate:
£10.21 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37, Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- Wrexham,
LL11 1AY
Temporary Transport Operations Officer
Reference no: Wrexham RQ798493
Pay Rate: £10.21 per hour PAYE
A Transport Operations Officer is needed to provide office support to Transport Operations Officers who deliver Home to School Transport provision in the organisation.
Duties include answering telephones/taking messages and contacting various parties/partner organizations, ad-hoc work tasks updating and maintaining records including excel/word/specialist software systems.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the transport commissioning process for the Integrated Transport Unit by reviewing and actioning transport requests from authorised staff in Lifelong Learning and Adult Social care.
- Regular review of the commissioning process to ensure it is robust and well understood, and preparation of reports for Service Level Agreement meetings on trends in transport commissioning.
- Supervise 130 transport escorts, ensuring an accurate database is maintained, and leading on attendance issues, both on a reactive basis to ensure service continuity, and a proactive basis to manage overall attendance.
- Attend regular meetings with escorts as individuals and in groups to discuss operational issues, particularly relating to health and safety of passengers.
- Lead on the process for ensuring all employed escorts and contracted drivers and escorts possess up to date enhanced CRB clearance.
- Manage the Risk Assessment process for transport contracts through liaison with private transport companies on requirements, review of submitted risk assessment forms and management of a database for Risk Assessments.
- Lead on processing of general public enquiries relating to passenger and public transport, through direct responses to the public and regular liaison with Traveline Cymru.
- Identify the need for, procure, distribute, and keep a record of any specialised transport equipment for passengers with special needs, such as booster seats and wheelchair equipment.
- Design and specify safe and efficient transport contract specifications as part of the overall tender programme.
- Respond to general queries relating to transport policy entitlement and determine eligibility for free Home to School and College Transport.
- Communicate with parents and carers decisions relating to transport entitlement and details of any transport arrangements made.
- Reconcile transport invoices with contract documentation to ensure payments are correct.
- Attend onsite inspections of transport contracts, monitoring performance and standards to ensure contract compliance, and ensuring contract irregularities are managed in line with agreed process.
- Attend national and regional ATCO (Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers) meetings to share best practice with colleagues from other authorities on all aspects of transport operations.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
Experience/ Knowledge:
- Experience in transport operations.
- Experience in supervising staff.
- Knowledge of passenger transport legislation and national guidelines
- Understanding of Local Authority financial regulations and conditions of contract for passenger transport.
Skills/Technical skills:
- Confident communicator, ability to produce and present reports to a wide range of audiences.
- Strong analytical abilities and work accurately with management information systems.
- Computer literate.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Good organisational skills.
- Self-motivation.
- Excellent customer care skills, dealing with public service users and operators.
- Proven ability to meet deadlines and targets.
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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.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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