Casual BookBus Driver Assistant

Job description
Job details

Job reference

REQ4160

Date posted

03/10/2026

Application closing date

20/10/2026

Location

Various locations across Leicester City

Salary

£12.18 per hour

Package

Blank

Contractual hours

0

Basis

Part time

Job category/type

City Services

Attachments

Job Specification - 2026-08-0+T181730.041.pdf

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.

What you’ll be doing

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.

What you’ll need

A competent and experienced driver with a clean C1 licence category, you’ll have or be able to complete 35 hours of periodic training to acquire, a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) card. Confident in speaking with members of the public of all ages and backgrounds, you’ll demonstrate a problem-solving approach in assisting them to get the best out of their library service. Punctual and reliable, you’ll be dedicated to providing good customer service in a safe, secure and friendly environment.

For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Matthew Vaughan [email protected] or call 0116 4543548

Assessments and interviews will take place on 11th November 2026. Should you be successful following the interview, then you will be required to complete a driver competence assessment (carried out by an external provider) before an offer can be made.