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Minibus Driver (Casual)

Boston Spa Academy, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 6RW

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• Start date details

  Start date to be agreed with the successful candidate.

• Closing date

  4 December 2024 at 9am

• Date listed

  21 November 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support role
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: Casual hours as and when needed.
• Contract type: Casual
• Hourly rate: A1/A3 (SCP 2-4) £12.26 - £12.65 p/h

What skills and experience we're looking for

Boston Spa Academy is seeking to recruit an inspirational colleague to the role of Casual Minibus Driver. Driving the academy minibus as required for collections and drop-offs, sports fixtures, trips and visits. May include split shifts.

The ideal applicant will have:

• A full, clean driving license including D1.
• Willingness to work flexible hours.
• High levels of concentration.

What the school offers its staff

What we offer you:

As a trust, we want to ensure that professionals at every stage in their career have the opportunity to enjoy expert support and training. We are pleased to offer a generous benefits package to our team – as we work together to create a rewarding future for all including:

• Membership to a local government pension scheme.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which provides confidential professional advice and support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• A commitment to continued investment in our professionals, supporting every member of staff throughout their career in the trust.
• Discounts and online offers at major high street/online retailers.
• £2k Cycle to work scheme.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

About us:

At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our recent Ofsted inspection when we were graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.

GORSE have established a long-standing culture of excellence where ‘high challenge, high support’ is commonplace. Our trust will be made up of 15 establishments by September 2025. In addition to this, we also operate GORSE SCITT and Leeds Teaching School Hub, important establishments in their own right. Ensuring that each element of the trust, including the central team, performs at its best to ensure all children, especially those whose who are disadvantaged, have the opportunity to secure the Gift of Choice, is the central mission of GORSE.

If you would like to know more about our academy, please visit our website at www.bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk.

How to Apply:

If you’re as excited about this opportunity as we are, a Job Description/Person Specification and application form is available to download from The GORSE Academies Trust website (www.tgat.org.uk/jobs), by email to Susie.Dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk or by telephone on 01937 846636.

Please note if you submit an electronic application, we will not require a hard copy. CVs are not accepted.

Commitment to safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full employment checks, including an enhanced DBS disclosure and barring service check. We promote diversity and aim to establish a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds.

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Additional documents

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About Boston Spa Academy

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1498 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Boston Spa Academy website
• Email address: Susie.Dubber@bostonspa.leeds.sch.uk
• Phone number: 01937 846636
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/boston-spa-academy

Boston Spa Academy is a mixed, secondary school for children aged 11-18 based in Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorkshire with a growing reputation for academic excellence, high quality personal development provision and strong pastoral support. The school has around 1,500 students of which approximately 260 attend the growing sixth form.


In September 2018, Boston Spa Academy officially joined the highly successful and nationally renowned GORSE trust. As a direct impact of working with colleagues at GORSE the academy has moved from being a school with average performance to one which is now well above the national average. Boston Spa Academy is now amongst the highest performing schools in Leeds, the Yorkshire and Humber region and the country.


The academy has invested significantly in facilities for our students in recent years, including a brand new auditorium building, new student and staff toilet areas, renovated dining halls, new classroom areas, brand-new library and IT facilities and our new Sixth Form Centre which opened in September 2026.


Our Vision and Values: Shaping Character; Cultivating AmbitionAt Boston Spa Academy, we truly value the holistic development of our students as part of our vision to be ‘shaping character; cultivating ambition’. We support students in developing the character traits required to be well-rounded individuals and for them to be prepared with the skills, habits and qualifications required for success in their future careers.


Our community is built on kindness, respect, hard work and aspiration and our enabler to achieving this are the ‘core values’ to which we hold dear and permeate through all that we do at the academy:

• Purpose


• Positivity


• Principled


• Participation


• Professionalism

Our ‘Shaping Character Programme’ is a wide ranging and incredibly exciting personal development programme which ensures that all young people at Boston Spa Academy enjoy the experiences and education required to become well-rounded individuals. This programme includes, but is not limited to, our ‘Character and Ambition Pathway’, extensive educational visits programme, House System, Student Leadership opportunities and our Enrichment++ provision, which is designed to encourage young people to learn beyond the classroom and includes opportunities to take part in sport, art, languages, humanities, science, outdoor pursuits and a range of volunteering and charitable work at local, national and international levels.


As part of GORSE, Boston Spa Academy is in the vanguard of educational developments in Leeds, Yorkshire and on a national level. As a school community, we strive to deliver an exceptional standard of education and this is reflected in the excellent outcomes that students achieve at both GCSE and A Level.


At Boston Spa Academy, we are proud that, in our most recent Ofsted inspection graded “Outstanding”, it was commented that ‘staff feel valued and are proud to be members of the school’. The report also recognises that ‘leaders are highly supportive’ and ‘proactively seek to manage workload and support the well-being of staff’. As well as feeling part of a community with a common purpose, our professional body also benefits from outstanding CPD and support which is personalised to your particular needs and experience.


Mr Peter Hollywood
Principal

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