Transport Officer Adult Social Care

Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance

Salary: Grade 6, £29,540 - £32,597 per annum.

37 hours per week

We're on a journey to build a workforce reflective of our Borough.

We are committed to fostering diverse teams where everybody can bring their authentic selves to work and feel that they belong. If you want to work for a Council where everybody is encouraged to meet their full potential and make a difference in our neighbourhoods, we would love to hear from you!

Your role:

Join our new Adult Social Care Transport team and play a key role in delivering safe, reliable, and high-quality transport for vulnerable adults across Wigan Borough. This is a rewarding opportunity to ensure people with diverse needs can access essential day services with dignity, independence, and confidence.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate daily transport operations for adult social care, making sure services run smoothly, efficiently, and in line with local policy.
• Support modernisation and improvement of the service, including digital systems, data driven planning, budget monitoring and new ways of working.
• Champion safety and complianceoverseeing safeguarding, health & safety and CQC standards, and ensuring our accessible fleet meets DVLA and VOSA regulations.
• You'll be at the heart of ensuring vulnerable adultseach with unique physical, cognitive, or complex health needsreceive safe, respectful and dependable transport every day.

About you:

We are looking for someone that has transport operations experience and confident with digital planning tools. You will need to be:

• Strong with data, compliance, safeguarding and safety standards.
• Clear communicator with a calm, solutions-focused approach.
• Great with people, understanding diverse needs and disabilities.
• Organised, resource savvy, and aligned to Wigan’s values.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

The Adult Social Care Transport Service is a brand-new team within a hardworking, committed, busy and people focused service. The ambition is to drive service improvements which meet or exceed resident expectation, through provision of effective, efficient transport options for our vulnerable customers. We know services are only as good as the staff and we support ours to grow and develop, working together as one team to ensure residents receive personalised, excellent services. Bringing your expertise and creative ideas, you’ll play a huge part in shaping the team and its delivery.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

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For an informal discussion please contact Ian Lythgoe - Service Lead for Adult Social Care on 07917 557035 or Hayley Dunn Lead Provider Manager on 07984 426902

Interview date: Week Commencing Monday 9^th March 2026

This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child and adult barred list check

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