Activities Assistant & Driver – Dual Role Opportunity

Overview

- ### Department
Community Support
- ### Contract
Permanent
- ### Salary
£13.85 an hour
- ### Closing date
30 Apr 2026
- ### Location
Michael Sobell Jewish Community Centre, Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus, 221 Golders Green Road, Barnet, NW11 9DQ

What you will be doing:

- Providing safe and effective driving and transport services for older people and people living with dementia
- Ensuring vehicles are maintained to a proper standard of road worthiness and cleanliness and coordinating maintenance and recovery.
- Engaging with members throughout the journey to put them at ease and offer any reassurance.
- Assisting passengers to agreed standards and procedures to and from their home.
- Raising any safeguarding concerns to enhance the quality of life of older people.
- Running and taking part in activities and programmes in a culturally specific Jewish Day service for older people, people living with dementia and at associated programming and events.
- Working together with programming teams to set up technology to support members taking part in activities at home – such as online social discussion groups and exercise classes.
- Confidently raising and reporting safeguarding concerns
- Providing, personal care duties, as indicated in a person’s care plan
- Taking part in care plan meetings with colleagues, internal Social Work colleagues, relatives, and external agencies.
- Promoting the Montessori approach to dementia care.
- Supporting members to coordinate and organise their transport arrangements to and from the centre to include assisting with booking and managing dial-a-ride, other community transport private hire and public transport.

What you will need:

- Full clean driving license with D1 category
- Midas (Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme) or willingness to undertake this training.
- Midas PATS (Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme – passenger assistance training) or willingness to undertake this training.
- Experience working with older and/or disabled people in a professional or personal capacity
- Experience of delivering activities in a similar social care environment.
- Experience socialising with or talking to older, disabled, or people living with dementia, in a personal or professional capacity

Note that for insurance purposes the post holder must be over 22 years old with 3 years' driving experience and hold a current clean driving licence.

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