Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £28,605 - £31,029 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type:  Permanent

Closing Date: 08/02/2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

Due to retirement, we have a vacancy for a Transport Assessor to join the Passenger Transport Service within the Assisted Transport Service.  This is a busy service providing school transport to eligible mainstream children and children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. 

About the Role

As Transport Assessor, you will work primarily in the Risk Assessment team, assessing the transport requirements of children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.  The successful candidate will be motivated and flexible to meet the various team commitments.  You will be well organized and able to prioritise your work, meet tight deadlines and work as part of a team. Your focus will be:

• To complete and review individual risk assessments to determine suitable transport arrangements either for home to school or day care services
• Provide risk assessment advice to colleagues across the Assisted Transport Service to assist service delivery 
• Laise with parents/carers, colleagues, operators, schools and other relevant stakeholders to support the safe and efficient delivery of home to school transport
• Support the delivery of in-person training to external transport providers
• To handover specialist equipment where this is specified in a child’s risk assessment, to ensure transport providers are competent in its use. 
• You will be expected to meet service commitments including regular working at County Hall, conducting visits to schools (usually at the start and end of the school day), and delivering in person training either at County Hall or other venues across Leicestershire. 

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Experience of gathering and interpreting information from different sources to produce written reports and correspondence, with excellent attention to detail
• Experience and confidence in using a range of IT packages including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and database packages
• Knowledge or experience of special educational needs and disabilities in the context of providing a service
• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to problem solve and achieve suitable outcomes for children and adults with SEND, whilst also working to tight deadlines 
• Possess excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise assertively, empathetically and calmly with members of the public including parents and carers 
• The ability to travel to schools and venues across Leicestershire as required

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Rosa Barron- Passenger Transport Manager

Telephone: 0116 2323232

To contact me by email please click here

How to Apply

Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words 

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible. 

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support. 

By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a Disability Confident, Menopause Friendly, Mindful Employer, Fostering Friendly, Forces Friendly, and Cycle Friendly organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it’s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

Our Recruitment Process
Our Organisational Values
Our Employee Benefits
Working for Us