DRIVER – VAN/AUTOMOBILE

Pay: $38K – $54K

The salary range indicated in this announcement is based on the Employee/Employer retirement compensation schedule. An employer-only option is available at a reduced salary range. Generally, salaries start at the lowest level of a step 1 and increase with each year of service to the highest level of a step 10.

For more information on benefit and retirement programs, please see the sections below.
In order to receive consideration, applicants must indicate their availability for any work type, travel, and location requirements listed.

JOB INFORMATION

Work Type: Permanent, full time vacancies as they may occur Statewide.

Department: Health and Human Services

Division: Division of Child and Family Services

The Position

Drivers operate various types of motor vehicles such as shuttle buses, automobiles, vans, or light trucks to transport people and/or materials to and from specified locations in accordance with established agency policies and safe driving practices.

Position requires a valid driver’s license at the time of appointment. Ability to properly install car seats/boosters for all ages and sizes of children. Transport may include parents, youth and small children or drug affected infants and social workers, or entire families. The transport can be to a variety of appointments that may be 20 minutes or take all day depending on appointment location, appointment waiting time, and transport back home or DCFS office. Often transports are for parent/child and/or sibling visitation, transports across rural region for placement changes of foster homes, from school/preschool to daycare, families to medical appointments, resource centers, court hearings, counseling or evaluations, Social Security, Welfare, to schools for educational plan meetings, parents to drug testing, to meetings with attorneys, to court appearances, or to provide courier services by delivering supplies, equipment mail, reports, legal document and other items as required. Other duties may include maintaining a spreadsheet to track maintenance of the offices fleet vehicles, mileage, and passengers transported, and other data for various reports. Provide administrative support to the office with routine duties as required and in accordance with established procedures; answer telephone and forward calls to appropriate staff; staff the information desk and have visitors sign in/out; assist the public by giving directions, answering questions, explaining rules, referring to the public to appropriate staff or providing necessary forms, etc.

To Qualify:

In order to be qualified, you must meet the following requirements:

Education and Experience (Minimum Qualifications)

Two years of motor vehicle driving experience.

Special Requirements

A State of Nevada/FBI background check will be required of the selected applicant.

A valid driver’s license is required at the time of appointment and as a condition of continuing employment for Driver – Van/Automobile positions.