Minibus Driver - Zero Hours/Casual Contract
Green Meadows Academy, Leeds, LS20 8LS9 days remaining to apply
Start date details
September 2024
Closing date
12 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
17 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Teaching assistant
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £12.21 Hourly
Minibus Driver - Zero Hours/Casual Contract job summary
Minibus Driver - Zero Hours/Casual Contract
Job Type: Zero hours contract Hourly Salary £12.21 (SCP5-6)
Term time only
Start date: September 2024
Green Meadows Academy, part of the Wellspring Academy Trust, is a generic special school based on two sites and 4 partnerships - Green Meadows Primary and Green Meadows Secondary are both based in Guiseley.
Purpose of the Post
We are looking for a highly competent and conscientious driver to join our team on a casual basis to support our children on local days out, college days and trips. You will need to be flexible and adaptable, a good communicator, cheerful and calm. The successful applicant will need to be reliable with good timekeeping skills and available during the week, term time only. All visits/students are supervised by our fully trained staff. If you want to make a difference to some of the most vulnerable learners in Leeds, please complete our application form.
The purpose of this role is to:
Transport pupils, groups of pupils and staff according to a set daily schedule and throughout the school day
Communicate effectively with children and adults to establish and maintain good working relationships to support children.
Operate school vehicles in a safe and efficient way in line with all relevant laws, legislation, policies and procedures including, for example:
Performing daily safety checks
Ensuring vehicles are safely and securely stored
Ensuring any necessary repairs/concerns are reported
Cleaning and valeting the vehicles
Refuelling vehicles
Reporting issues in a timely manner so they can be rectified promptly
Must hold a clean full UK Driving Licence.
Must have a minimum of 3 years driving experience and previous experience in a driver role
MIDAS Minibus training (or willingness to undertake). You must have category D1 on your licence
Ability to understand the needs of students with special educational needs
Good time keeping skills
Reliable and conscientious
Responsible to: Pastoral Team Leader
Employee Supervision: None
What you'll need to succeed:
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
Using the application form
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
About Green Meadows Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 2 to 19
- School size
- 217 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 2 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
- School website
- Green Meadows Academy website (opens in new tab)
School location
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