Community Transport Operation Manager Careers

WORK ENVIRONMENT:-

Community transport is a local service for people who are not able to make use of other types of transport, for instance the immobilized, schoolchildren and mature.

Being a community transport operation manager, it will be your duty to manage the everyday delivery of the service.

Your duties and responsibilities will comprise:

• arranging services and rotas of the staff
• maintaining the schedules of the vehicles
• managing the training for the staff

• advertise and promote the services
• hiring and supervising employees
• handling the services of booking
• ensuring the services fulfills with appropriate legislation

You will be liable for administering the community transport passenger assistant or drivers.

QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:-

The most common method into this profession is to work your way up from other position in community transport. Visit the associated profiles for further details relating to these positions.

Employers will anticipate you to have a standard qualification with excellent English and mathematics level. Having the experience of handling the people will provide you a benefit when searching for work.

You should have the approval of CRB for this job.

TRAINING DETAILS:-

Once you are working, you can complete the Level 3 and 4 National Vocational Qualification in Managing in Road Passenger Transport.

Other alternative will include industry associated qualification like the Certificate of Professional Competence in National Passenger Transport presented by OCR. Check the site of OCR for extra information.

SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE:-

• development and organizational skills
• awareness of good customer service skills
• an interest in transport service delivery
• excellent communication skills
• ability to deal with the financial statements
• good experience of staff management
• responsiveness of appropriate legislation, for instance Health and Safety

SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS:-

• Opening salaries can be from £ 20,000 to £ 25,000 yearly.
• If experienced, this can increase to £ 30,000 p.a.

WORKING CONDITIONS:-

You will be working weekly for 40 hours, full-time. Based on the services, you can work on weekends. Early on starts are regular.

You will mainly be based in the office and will expend much of your time on the computer. You might have to carry out passenger assistant responsibilities. Check the career profile for community transport operation manager for additional information related to this position.

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES:-

You can also get chance in many areas of the country, with private, public and voluntary organizations.

Vacancies are generally promoted in the confined press, and on the sites which are given below. Most community transport organizations are operated by local councils, so jobs might be promoted on your home authority or on the site of community transport association.

If experienced, you can turn into handling the transport operations for other companies. You can also take on more senior positions in community transport, for e.g. service director.

The following job vacancies will be helpful for you:

• Jobs Go Public
• LG Jobs
• Directgoy (Job seekers page)
• A2Binfo

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