Minibus Driver

Katherine Warington School, Harpenden, AL5 5FH

14 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  14 October 2025 at 10am

• Date listed

  30 September 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Casual
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.21 Hourly Plus statutory holiday pay

Minibus Driver job summary

Overview

We are seeking a reliable and responsible Casual Minibus Driver to safely transport students between KWS and various Consortium Schools within the Harpenden area. This is a crucial role ensuring the punctual and secure travel of our students. The work is on a casual, as-needed basis, primarily covering morning and afternoon school runs during term time, with potential for additional ad-hoc trips.

Key Responsibilities

• Safe Transportation: Operate a school minibus in a safe, legal, and courteous manner at all times, strictly adhering to all traffic laws and school transport policies.

• Student Safety: Ensure the well-being and safety of all students while they are boarding, travelling on, and alighting the vehicle. Ensure all passengers are correctly seated and using seat belts.

• Route Adherence: Follow designated routes and time schedules accurately and efficiently.

• Vehicle Checks: Conduct mandatory daily walk-around checks of the vehicle before and after each journey, reporting any defects, damage, or maintenance needs immediately.

• Documentation: Complete relevant logbooks, defect forms, and mileage records accurately.

• Communication: Maintain professional and clear communication with the transport coordinator, school staff, and parents/guardians as required, reporting any incidents or concerns immediately.

• Fueling and Cleaning: Maintain the cleanliness of the minibus interior and exterior and ensure the vehicle is adequately fuelled.

Essential Requirements

• Driving Licence: A current, valid UK driving licence with the appropriate category (D1 or higher) allowing the driving of a minibus (or a D licence).

• DBS Check: Willingness to undergo and pass an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, as this role involves working with children.

• Experience: Proven experience driving a minibus or similar passenger vehicle is desirable.

• Patience and Reliability: Must be patient, punctual, reliable, and possess a calm temperament.

• Local Knowledge: Excellent knowledge of the Harpenden area and surrounding routes is highly beneficial.

• Working Rights: Must have the right to work in the UK.

Compensation and Hours

• Pay Rate: £12.21 per hour, plus statutory holiday pay.

• Hours:

• Monday - 930 - 1130

• Tuesday - 1015-1145 and 1245-245 (or straight through)

• Wednesday - 1015 - 1145 and 1215 - 145 (or straight through)

• Thursday - 930-11 and 145-230

Please apply even if you can only cover 1 or 2 of the required times above, there may be the opportunity for additional driving to cover School Trips, Sports Fixtures and other events from time to time.

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

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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 Katherine Warington School

• School type: Free School, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1017 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Katherine Warington School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/katherine-warington-school

Katherine Warington School is a new comprehensive, co‐educational and non‐denominational academic secondary school (opened September 19) with 750 students currently (180 in each of years 7, 8, 9 and 10 – these year groups are already oversubscribed). The school will add a
further 180 students in each subsequent year and then open a 250 strong Sixth Form. By 2025 we will have grown to our capacity of 1,150 students. The school was established through the partnership of the Harpenden Secondary Schools Trust, which includes the three outstanding
schools in Harpenden: Roundwood Park, St George’s and Sir John Lawes and additional partners: the University of Hertfordshire and Rothamsted Research Centre (a world leading non‐profit agricultural science research centre).

Further details about the school, including our prospectus and virtual tour, can be found on our website: www.kwschool.co.uk

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