Passenger Transport Supervisor

Passenger Transport Services manages travel for Children and Vulnerable adults across the city, this is rewarding role is to supervise a team of Drivers and Passenger Assistants to deliver safe, high quality, accessible travel.

This role will be responsible for planning and allocating routes, and promoting good client and passenger relations to high standards of operational satisfaction.

responsibilities include: ensuring all legal, statutory and council provisions relating to operation activity are complied with, and that all drivers are aware of their driving roles and responsibilities and safety checks on vehicles are performed.

This role will carry out audits and check all passenger transport activities and ensure all records are maintained in line with transport legislation and council transport requirements

Ensuring all health and safety risk assessments are carried out are up to date to carry out all necessary investigations to ensure compliance with all relevant requirements for the service areas, such as safeguarding, and legislations, and that all legal, statutory and council provisions relating to operational activity are complied with.

• Full driving license and hold a minimum of a D1 driving license with a D desirable
• Supervisory experience of transport related operations and people.
• Experience of monitoring, checking and compliance in relation to transport operations, Health and                 Safety, and safeguarding
• Knowledge of passenger transport legislation in relation to operating a fleet of minibuses and High          Dependency vehicles.
• This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role
• A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
• The role requires you to participate in the on call rota.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it.  We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Shaun Morris, by telephone on 0115 8761464 or by email at shaun.morris@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.

Closing Date: 3rd September  2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: 10th September 2026

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

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Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service)  + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working – to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we’d like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.