About Us
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion: We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It\'s about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
About The Role
Would you like to make a difference to the life of our young people with special needs and disabilities by ensuring they have a fun and safe journey to and from school? The London Borough of Hounslow’s Transport Co-ordination service is currently recruiting Attendants to support SEND children during their journey to/from school. We require part-time staff for 132 hours per week split shift (am and pm) term time only. There are opportunities to work additional hours and for Casual Attendants if you require more flexibility. You will be responsible for transporting children and adults with special needs and disabilities to various destinations, within and outside of the Borough.
About You
Have you got what we are looking for?
* Caring and friendly personality and possess empathy and understanding.
* Understands the needs of SEND children and young people.
* Physically fit.
* Able to deal with emergency situations in a positive manner.
* Possess a good level of spoken English and communication skills.
Candidates will be subject to a telephone interview as part of the selection process.
If you would like to find out more about the role or would like an application form, please contact the Transport Team on 020 8583 4020 or e-mail: transportoperations@hounslow.gov.uk
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