Job title: Mini-bus driver
Salary: £12.85 per hour + wellbeing cash plan + pension scheme (LGPS) + additional Lift Schools benefits
School: Lift Broadlands, St Francis Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2DY
Contract type: Permanent, term-time only, hours will roughly be 7.30am until 9am and then 2.30pm until 3.45pm
Start: September
A rare term-time only mini bus driver job opportunity for a lovely secondary school.
Your new school
Lift Broadlands is a small secondary school in Keynsham, fostering a nurturing environment for students aged 11-16 and led by an incredible Principal, Laura Stone, who is passionate about ensuring that every student has access to an excellent education, in every classroom, every day. We're conveniently located near Bath and North East Somerset, with excellent transport links to Bristol and other surrounding areas. We are a small, mixed, fully inclusive comprehensive school and remain one of the best choices for learning in the area. For every student who attends our academy, we aim to raise their aspirations, broaden their horizons and promote a life-long love of learning. We are an OFSTED ‘Good’ school, and benefit from a number of links with the local community and have an excellent reputation.
Your new role
- To safely collect and transport students to and from school.
- Exercising a strict duty of care, ensuring seatbelts are worn at all times, supervising students as they get on and off the minibus safely, and enforcing a one-person-per-seat rule to prevent overloading.
- Carrying out daily vehicle checks prior to starting any journey, which includes checking for a first aid kit and fire extinguisher, and ensuring all gangways are clear of obstruction.
- Carrying out routine weekly maintenance on the vehicles, including washing down, checking fluid levels, and maintaining general cleanliness and roadworthiness.
- Refueling the vehicle as required.
- Removing all occupants to safety as per Health & Safety procedures in the event of a vehicle breakdown.
- Promoting the safeguarding and welfare of children and young persons.
- Maintaining regular, consistent, and professional attendance, punctuality, and personal appearance.
- Developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with residents, staff, pupils, contractors, and other guests.
What you’ll need to succeed
You will have a driving license with experience of driving a larger vehicle, in a customer-facing role, ideally working with community groups, schools or sports clubs. You will have strong communication and interpersonal skills. You will ideally be First Aid qualified, or willing to complete training.
We offer you:
Comprehensive training: Access to some of the best developmental training to boost your career.
Generous benefits: From your pension plan to healthcare and financial support, we've got you covered.
Lifestyle perks: Enjoy discounted gym memberships, travel deals, and much more.
If you would like a confidential discussion before applying and/or a tour of the school please contact Jessica Billows, Recruitment Manager on jbillows@liftschools.org
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive an overwhelming response. All candidates are advised to refer to the job description and person specification before making an application.
Lift Schools are committed to ensuring the highest levels of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils, and we expect all our people and volunteers to share this commitment. We adopt a fair and consistent recruitment process which is inline with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance. This includes online checks for shortlisted candidates. All offers of employment are subject to an Enhanced DBS check, references, and where applicable, a prohibition from teaching check.
Lift Schools embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and there is a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
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Lift Schools believes an excellent education is an entitlement for every child, and we do everything in our power to ensure that our schools are making that a reality for every pupil in our care.
Our mission:
We will provide an excellent education for every child, in every classroom, every day.
With excellent leadership and teaching in every school, we will help children go on to lead successful and happy lives.
We will work with others beyond our network to create capacity in the sector to benefit more children and communities.
At Lift Schools, we are serious about personal and professional development.
We know that talent drives performance, we attract dynamic people and we back them to reimagine what’s possible in every classroom, for every child, every day.
Whether you're taking those exciting first steps into the world of teaching or you've worked in the education sector for some time, Lift Schools is a great place to have the biggest impact.
Our work literally changes lives and we know that only happens if we invest in our team.
Initial Teacher Training
Our Initial Teacher Training programme allows prospective teachers to gain their PGCE and QTS alongside acquiring valuable experience working within a classroom.
For a full list of our career opportunities, please visit our website.
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Project H is our online community designed to find solutions to address the big challenges in the education sector. Project H shares resources, ideas and insights from staff across our schools and the trust.
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Our Benefits:
We offer the full suite of Early Career and NPQ programmes as well as our CPD offer which provides opportunities for both teaching and leadership development.
For our full list of benefits, including a great pension, discounted gym membership, salary advances and a travel and leisure scheme, visit our website.
