Salary: £13.28 - £13.47 per hour
Contract Type: Permanent, Part-time
Vacancy Hours: 22.50 hours per week
Location: Northallerton, North Yorkshire
The Integrated Passenger Transport Operations Team is responsible for the safe and efficient use of over one hundred and twenty minibuses to transport people in North Yorkshire. The team comprises approximately 350 drivers and passenger assistants that operate at locations throughout North Yorkshire.
The team delivers approximately 250,000 passenger journeys per year including 20,000 wheelchair user journeys. The transport provided enables people to access schools, day centres, learning opportunities, supported employment and other meaningful activities in our community. We also undertake registered local bus services and community transport journeys.
We are looking for caring, flexible, and committed people to help us provide this transport.
You will be responsible for the safety of passengers during these journeys and will ensure that the passengers board and alight safely as well as ensuring that any safety equipment is used correctly. Full training in the use of all safety equipment will be provided.
You will need effective communication skills as you will consult daily with the passengers, carers, and establishment staff. Experience is not essential: however, some experience of assisting passengers in accessible vehicles or working in a similar role would be an advantage for this position.
We have a vacancy for a part-time Passenger Assistant at 22:50 hours per week on a full year contract. The typical (but not exact) 22:50 hours working week would be from approximately 07:00am/07:30am to approximately 09:45am/10:15am and from approximately 2:30pm/3:00pm to approximately 5:00pm/5:30pm; however, these hours can, and on occasions do, vary to fit the needs of our customers.
The hours will be worked from Monday to Friday inclusive. The role will involve split shifts.
This vacancy is based in Northallerton.
The role will require you to be flexible to fit in with Integrated Passenger Transport demand.
We offer a comprehensive training package, including the Passenger Assistant Training Scheme (PATS), Basic First Aid and Managing Challenging Behaviour.
What can we offer you?
In addition to your salary, we offer a range of great benefits to help you financially and make life a bit easier. These include:
* a local government pension scheme with 18.1% employer contribution
* salary sacrifice schemes
* employee discount benefits including shopping, supermarkets, gym discounts and more!
* travel loans
* Health Assured – confidential help and support for your wellbeing
Click on our Total Rewards Brochure at the bottom of this advert to see the full range of benefits.
For further information about this role, please contact Paul Lincoln on 01609 535121 or Paul.Lincoln@northyorks.gov.uk
Key Documents
Key Dates
Closing Date: 04 June 2026
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Venue for Interview: To be confirmed
This post involves access to vulnerable service users and if you were offered the position, you will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) background check.
It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with adults at risk.
We are committed to the inclusion, safeguarding, and promoting the welfare of adults at risk.
NYC is committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Council’s purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services, we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.