Minibus Driver/General Assistant

30 hours per week, 38 weeks per year

7:45am – 10:00am and 1:00pm – 4:45pm Mon - Friday

Shirebrook Academy is at the heart of the Shirebrook community. We are committed to making a real difference to the lives of our young people and will provide outstanding learning and enrichment opportunities for them throughout their time with us. To be able to achieve this, we need to have a team of dedicated and outstanding staff, who will contribute to our exceptional learning community.

In May 2017 Shirebrook Academy joined ACET (Aston Community Education Trust) which further strengthens our capacity to improve opportunities for all our students and staff.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and suitably qualified Minibus driver to help transport our students to Alternative Provision locations across the Trust and support children in attending Shirebrook Academy and extra-curricular provision, together with providing general site assistance as and when required.

The ideal candidate will:

• be reliable, flexible and readily available

• have effective communication skills and good interpersonal skills

• have experience of working with young people

Safeguarding

ACET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All applicants should read our safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy, which are available on the ‘policy’ section of our academy websites.

It

is an offence to seek employment in regulated activity if you are barred from

working with children. This post will involve regular contact with children,

and therefore is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Applicants are therefore not entitled to withhold information about

convictions, cautions or bind-over orders which for any other purposes are

“spent” under the provisions of the Act. Any information that is “protected”

under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 will not

appear on a DBS certificate and does not need to be declared. Guidance on this

can be found at https://www.gov.uk

/government/publications/new-guidance-on-the-rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974.

Successful candidates will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a self-declaration related to their criminal record or any information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. If you have lived or worked outside of the UK, additional information may be required from you to satisfy safer recruitment checks.

Equality

ACET is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity throughout the recruitment process. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, and your application will be assessed purely on your ability to do the job.

We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. Where required, we will make reasonable adjustments to the selection process for an applicant with a disability.

Please note if you have not received a reply within three weeks, your application has been unsuccessful. We undertake to make any ‘reasonable adjustments’ to a job or workplace to counteract any disadvantages a disabled person may face. This post involves working with children and therefore if successful, you will be required to apply for a disclosure and barring services check at an enhanced level. Further information about the

Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.homeoffice.gov.uk/dbs

Please note if you have not received a reply within three weeks, your application has been unsuccessful.