Minibus Driver (Casual Relief)

Parkside School, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD13 5AD

51 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  31 December 2026 at 9am

• Date listed

  10 November 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teacher or lecturer
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full time equivalent salary: £26,016.00 Annually (FTE) Band 5 point 4-6

Minibus Driver (Casual Relief) job summary

Join Our Team at Parkside School!

Looking for rewarding work that fits around your life?

Whether you are balancing family commitments, other part-time roles or simply looking for local, flexible work that makes a real difference, joining our Relief Minibus Driver team at Parkside School offers the perfect balance.

The Role

As a Relief Minibus Driver, you will play a vital role in providing essential transport services for our pupils and staff. You will step in to transport pupils, groups,and staff on educational trips, fixtures and vocational visits both within and outside standard school hours, ensuring our pupils can safely access valuable learning opportunities beyond the classroom.

What the role offers:

• Flexibility: Work on a flexible basis to support scheduled school trips and events - ideal for fitting around your lifestyle.

• Term-Time Work: Enjoy weekends, bank holidays and school holidays off.

• Make a Real Difference: Be a calm, approachable presence for students, helping create a safe, supportive and positive environment while on the road.

• Gain Valuable Experience & Training: Complete MIDAS training alongside essential safeguarding and first aid development.

In this role, you will work closely with trip leaders to provide a reliable driving service. You will support staff with student supervision where appropriate, encourage high standards of behaviour, adapt your communication to meet individual student needs and keep the health and safety of pupils and staff as your foremost priority.

What We Are Looking For

• Qualifications: Good standard of education with GCSEs or equivalent in English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above.

• Driving Licence & Requirements: Clean driving licence held for a minimum of two years and must be over 21 years of age.

• Experience: Some experience of working directly with young people.

• Knowledge: and understanding of child protection and safeguarding guidelines.

• Skills and Ethos: A holistic approach to student wellbeing, excellent communication skills and the ability to maintain high expectations and positive behaviour.

• Checks and Training: Willingness to undergo an enhanced DBS check and actively participate in all essential role training.

To review the full job description and person specification see attached supporting documentsWhy Join Parkside School?

At Parkside we believe in making a difference. You will be part of a supportive team that values professional development and contributes to an environment where every pupil has an equal opportunity to thrive. It is a very exciting time to join Parkside School, a part of Wellspring Academy Trust. Our school is welcoming and vibrant, with students who thrive on positive relationships and staff who are committed to securing the best possible outcomes for them. We are on an exciting journey reshaping Parkside School to be a school that students, staff, and the community are proud of.

To apply please complete our online application form

We will interview continually as and when applications are received.

We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the advertised closing date. Early applications are encouraged.

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. References will be taken up and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to attendance interview.

We are committed to equal opportunities and to promoting diversity. We want our people to reflect the diversity of our communities, and we welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, including those from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.

If you are currently living overseas or have lived / worked overseas in the last five years please be aware that you will be required to provide an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in, if you are the preferred candidate for the post.

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.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wellspring Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils. All posts are offered subject to enhanced DBS checks. As this role involves working with children in regulated activity, please note that it is an offence to apply for the role if barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

References will be requested and an online search carried out for shortlisted candidates, prior to interview. Further pre-employment checks, including prohibition from teaching, childcare disqualification and section 128 checks, if relevant for the role, will be completed for the successful candidate upon acceptance of the post.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Parkside School

• Organisation type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• Size: 1061 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Parkside School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/parkside-school-bradford

Parkside School and locality
We want all of our schools to make a positive contribution to the community that they are embedded within. This impact should be meaningful, considerable and lasting.

We want the young people of Parkside school to have every available opportunity to develop into well-rounded citizens who are equipped to make a positive contribution and who know how to keep themselves safe. We want students to have passionate hopes for their future; hopes that they can articulate, believe in and make real. We want to develop a nurturing environment that develops students who can empathise, critique, protect, love, inspire, make, design, explore and understand; students who are willing to try things they have never tried before, do things they have never done before and who are willing to risk reimagining themselves as the very best version of what they can become.

Located in the picturesque village of Cullingworth, Parkside School is surrounded by rolling hills and dramatic countryside.

The village, three miles south of Keighley and seven miles west of central Bradford, is not only popular with commuters but also with tourists, walkers and cyclists who revel in some of the country’s most glorious scenery.

The locality is steeped in history; the Brontë Parsonage Museum and its famous literary collections lie less than five miles east.

Also on the doorstep is the Saltaire World Heritage Site; a Victorian model village that is home to Salts Mill, which itself boasts striking architecture, eateries and shopping.

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