Leighton Park School
Reading
£12.60 per hour
Job type:
Part Time, Permanent
Apply by:
6 October 2025
Job overview
Minibus Drivers
Flexible hours including evenings and weekends
Are you a reliable and dedicated driver who enjoys making a difference? We are looking for enthusiastic and committed Minibus Drivers to join our team: someone who takes pride in their work, whether independently or alongside others.
This is a rewarding opportunity to play a key role in the life of our School community, ensuring the safe and punctual transportation of students to and from school events, fixtures, and trips. Flexibility is at the heart of this role, with hours that include evenings and weekends. We're looking for someone with experience driving minibuses or other large vehicles. While not essential, a background in working with children would be a valuable asset.
As part of the role, you'll carry out routine vehicle checks, maintain the highest standards of health and safety, and uphold a strong sense of professionalism, safeguarding, and security at all times.
Join a welcoming and supportive school environment where your work is valued, and enjoy excellent terms, conditions, and benefits as part of a professional and friendly team.
To apply, please complete the attached application form, or complete the online form on our recruitment website, and email it to If you require further information, please call HR on
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews held, on a rolling basis; therefore, we encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.
Leighton Park School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people; therefore the successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check as part of our recruitment process.
Developing kind and compassionate leaders for the future is an important part of how we give our Quaker values currency and purpose. Leighton Park seeks to be a leading school which delights in being diverse, open-minded and with a culture of equitable inclusion. For this reason, we warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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About Leighton Park School
Leighton Park School
Shinfield Road, Reading
Berkshire
RG2 7ED
United Kingdom
Leighton Park School is a successful, forward looking independent (HMC) day and boarding school for girls and boys aged 11-18 set in 65 acres of magnificent parkland.
Leighton Park exists to form young people of real character and confidence, with a determined desire to change the world, reflecting the school's Quaker values. In 2023 we won Senior School of the Year in the national Independent Schools Association Awards. We were also a finalist in the Independent Senior School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2023.
We are a school that inspires Achievement with Values, Character and Community and academic excellence is the consequence of our approach. Valuing breadth and depth, we are distinguished by excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM), Music and Ethical Enterprise. The UK Government's latest 16-18 league tables reveal Leighton Park to be the best performing School in Berkshire and in the top 1% of English schools. We are one of only eight schools to have always appeared in the top 100.
We challenge our students to imagine a better world. We then support them to develop the character, confidence and determination to be changemakers.
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