CASUAL BOOKBUS DRIVER ASSISTANT

Job description
Casual Hours
Play a key role in providing reading resources to children and their families across the city.
Our Children’s Bookbus is a mobile library, bringing books for children, from babies to the end of primary school, to the heart of Leicester’s communities. Our Children’s BookBus plays a vital role in our reading strategy for children and supports important partnerships with schools, early years setting and a variety of other agencies.
Join us to support delivery of library services to children 0-11 years old at ‘street stop’ locations around the city and raise the profile of library services by driving the BookBus to a variety of festivals and events. This post offers a unique combination of driving and frontline public services, and we can promise you that no two days will be the same.

At the start of your shift, you’ll collect the BookBus from the garage and carry out vehicle checks to ensure it is safe and ready to take out. Some remedial cleaning and tidying may be required, and for festivals and events, you may need to load equipment onto the vehicle. You’ll then drive the vehicle to the agreed destination. Destinations may include the children’s library team base to restock with books, the first stop in a series street stops on one of our established routes, or to an event site. In the case of our street stops, you’ll follow an established timetable of stops and at the end, return the vehicle to the garage. For festivals and events, you’ll drive to the event site and set up the vehicle and the outside area around it. This might include setting up the awning and erecting a gazebo. In all cases you’ll support the library assistant in ushering members of the public safely on and off the BookBus.