The Cambian Group is one of the largest providers of specialist behavioural health services for children and adults in the UK. Our work in the UK embraces many specialist services including adult mental health, acquired brain injury, children’s specialist education, children’s residential services and fostering services.
The Forum School and Residential Home is a 52 week residential specialist school providing quality therapeutic care and education for young people with Autism, sever learning difficulties, challenging behaviour and complex needs. The children and young people that attend our school range between the ages of 11 and 19 years.
The Job
This job involves driving staff from set locations to and from The Forum School in company vehicles. All work in and around The Forum School is completed by friendly, reliable and responsible persons. Drivers are responsible for driving our wonderful team from local towns into work at school in Shillingstone. Our brilliant team work so hard to support our children, we are offering them transport to work and back again at the end of a tiring day.
The ideal candidate will have a clean driving record, a self-motivated attitude and the ability to work independently. The role involves working as a team or individually to create the right environment to help the broader team fulfil its purpose. Drivers maintain a high standard in checking the vehicles are functional, safe and pleasant environments for people to travel.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Drive a minibus and ensure this is safe for each trip.
* To carry out monitoring of maintenance requirements and provide admin team with records
* To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and that of others in the vehicle.
* To identify any defects and damage of the vehicle and promptly report these to the site maintenance manager.
* To deal with emergencies if they should occur while out on the road.
* To ensure the safety of the vehicles.
* To attend work reliably and punctually
* To attend any training as required and take part in a positive manner
* To know where Cambian policies are kept and to be aware of and follow their contents.
* To carry out all duties as instructed in a safe, timely, professional and courteous manner.
* To play a full part in building good relationships with other staff.
* To carry out, as and when required, any additional duties and responsibilities as are reasonably compatible with this job description and deemed appropriate by your employer in the interests of the company.
The ideal candidate will be able to work mornings, evenings, some weekend hours, be self motivated and be able to keep calm should there be an emergency en-route.
Qualifications
* No criminal record including convictions, cautions, reprimands etc. which may be relevant to the safety and welfare of others.
* Current, clean driving licence to drive minibus as required.
Experience
* Experience of driving a variety of vehicles
* Experience of working as part of a team.
Added Benefits
* Friendly teams and a great support network of internal professionals.
* Real career progression opportunities.
* Contributory pension scheme
* Background checks at no cost to you.
* Free on site parking.
* Employee Discount Scheme.
Requirements for an Enhanced DBS and reference checking will be undertaken in line with government regulations and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible due to the nature of these important checks it may extend the processing time. All young people are equally entitled to have their needs met in a fair and balanced way. Cambian Group employees are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any young person or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation or any other perceived difference.
We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.