Minbus Driver for Oakdale Junior School and Old Town Infant School and Nursery

Job description

About the role

Minibus Driver

Poole

Times of work: 10 hours per week (8-9am and 3-4pm, Monday to Friday)

Term Time only (38 working weeks per year)

Salary: Grade 4, 6 - 9 (£13.47 - £14.13 per hour)

Start Date: September 2026, fixed term for one year initially

Whether you are available for all of the hours, or just mornings or just afternoons we would love to hear from you!

The requirements of the role are:

• A positive character who will enjoy working with children
• A competent, safe driver with a clean licence
• A driver who has Category D on their licence (that's most drivers who qualified before 1st January 1997)
• A driver who is prepared to engage with some minibus driver awareness training (2-hour training session arranged by the school)
• A qualified first aider or a willingness to be trained.

We can offer:

• A good quality and well-maintained vehicle for the trips
• An additional adult to support supervision of the children
• Polite, courteous and well-behaved children

Please visit our websites for further information about the schools:

https://www.oldtowninfantschool.co.uk/

https://www.oakdalejunior.co.uk/

This advert will close when enough suitable applications have been received.

To comply with our statutory safer recruitment practices and obligations, we are unable to shortlist incomplete applications. Please ensure you include a full employment and education history, details of two referees and explain any gaps in employment. CVs will not be accepted from external candidates.

Coastal Learning Partnership is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and requires all staff and volunteers to share and demonstrate this commitment.

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate that they meet the essential elements of the person specification and will be subject to pre-employment checks including a health check, and Enhanced DBS check, Child Barred List check and satisfactory references. We will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination a person who will not on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern. Applicants are advised that it is an offense to apply for the role if they are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

About Us

Old Town Infant School & Nursery and Oakdale Junior School have a new opportunity for a Minibus Driver to transport pupils before and after school between their two sites. You will be supported by another adult who will be able to supervise and support the children during the journey. The schools are part of Coastal Learning Partnership, a vibrant, collaborative Trust of twenty schools working together around shared goals, values and aspirations.