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Minibus Driver
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Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for a qualified driver to join our facilities team, the team are responsible for driving one of the school Mini buses on the home to school service.
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Bus driver with a current PSV license (D1) to carry out this role whilst contributing and supporting across the whole Facilities team, staff, pupils, visitors, external bookings and all school users.
Initiative and flexibility will be key attributes of the successful candidate. Initiative is required to ensure the impact of issues arising are analyses and managed, and where needed information passed onto the Transport Supervisor for appropriate action to be taken as necessary. Proactivity is required to ensure processes are continually under review to deliver high quality services across the team, and provide timely and useful information to aid whole school decision making.
Role Hours
- Term time plus
- Driving 5 days a week – 25 hours a week minimum contract
- Routes will be allocated to drivers at the School’s discretion – and may need to be redistributed between drivers due to business need.
- Routes will be reviewed every September and as and when required throughout the school year, this may result in lengthening or shortening of routes.
- Pre- and Post-School Driving - Split Shift
- Pre-School Approx. 06.00-08.30
- Post-School Approx. 15.45-18.15
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Vehicle Maintenance Checks
- Carry out daily checks on the Mini bus before setting off to collect pupils, record the results.
- Record the condition and mileage of the bus at the start of the journey.
- Ensure the Dash cam and vehicle tracker on the phones is working and phones are turned on.
- At the end of each bus run check the fuel levels and when required take bus to be filled up.
- Drivers are expected to keep their bus clean both internally and externally.
Driving
- Ensure you have the latest list of pupils for collection/drop off.
- Check phones for any updates from the school or parents on use of buses.
- Ensure you are at the first pick up point on time.
- Always open doors for pupils, ensure they are safely on board and have seatbelts in place before closing the door and setting off.
- Make sure any bags are safely stored.
- Follow the guidance in the transport policy.
- If you have issues with traffic and getting pupils to school on time, inform the school at the earliest opportunity when safe to do so, if on the return journey you encounter similar problems report the delay to the school and to the parents, the details of this will be in the driver packs and saved on your school phone.
- The School operates under an Operator Licence (“O” licence) and not under a section 19 Licence, we therefore need drivers to be PSV trained and have current CPC qualifications in place. The school will allow time for these to be renewed on an annual basis as needed.
- Driver will be expected to use the tachographs fitted in each vehicle.
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Licence/Certification
- Category D Licence (required)
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