Travel and Transport Manager at NHS Professionals, Reading

Job Description:

Job Title: Travel and Transport Manager

Location: London Road, Reading RG1 5AN

Hours: Mon-Fri between 8am to 5pm, 37.5 hours/week

Pay rate: 28.90/hr

Band: 7

Duration: 6 Months with possible ext

Company Overview

NHS Professionals connects healthcare and non-clinical professionals with flexible opportunities across the NHS. It supports the NHS community and patient care through responsive staffing services.

Summary

As a Travel and Transport Manager with Royal Berkshire NHS Trust, you will support travel and transport arrangements across NHS services. Your impact: well-coordinated transport helps NHS teams reach the people and services they need, supporting continuity of care.

Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for the day-to-day operational management of the Trust wide Travel and Transport service, to include all elements of the scope of the role
• Undertake the operational day to day management of all functional delivery area contractors to ensure they meet their service requirements and KPIs
• Support other Facilities functional delivery areas in the delivery of their required outputs
• Be responsible for operational health and safety within the scope of responsibility, to ensure the health and safety of operational team and impacted stakeholders
• Support the emergency and urgent response to Facilities situations to reduce impact on the Trust and those who use our services
• Develop services to provide effective and efficient customer focussed services, ensuring appropriate delivery outcomes, accurate and timely information and expert advice is provided
• Ensure services are appropriate, are monitored and ensure value for money and that high standards are achieved through active management, training and auditing.
• Support the development and embedding of a culture to ensure the highest levels of customer service are demonstrated by Facilities staff promoting a professional and caring image. Provide ‘patient centred’ services in recognition to the overall contribution to the patient experience.
• Develop and implement service plans, business cases and proposals within the managed services

Qualification:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent proven experience
• Educated to a good standard in English and Maths
• Experience in operational management of a front line customer focussed service
• Experience of a travel and/or transport eservices
• Experience of managing or supervising staff
• Experience and ability in managing operational performance
• Knowledge of delivery change
• Good oral and written communication

Skills:

• Service planning
• Computer literate to include word / excel / outlook / power point.
• Good leadership skills with the ability to direct, empower, motivate, challenge and facilitate in order to deliver results.
• Takes appropriate action or make decisions in a changing environment and to priorities work.
• Good verbal and written skills.

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