Driving Instructor Training Brighton, Sussex

A career as a driving instructor is an attractive prospect to many who are looking for a flexible business that they can run from home.

It offers a good degree of job security, flexible working hours which suit your lifestyle and serious job satisfaction as you watch your pupils learn and pass their tests.

Job Satisfaction

Think back to when you passed your driving test and how much it meant to you. Helping someone to pass their own driving test is enormously satisfying – and gives you the knowledge of a job well done.

Be Your Own Boss

Work the hours that suit you, your family and your lifestyle. Your time is managed by you. Whether you choose to work full-time or part-time, the hours you work are decided by you.

To be an effective ADI, you need to:

Be patient

Have good people skills

Enjoy helping other people to achieve their learning goals

Take pride in your driving.

If this describes you and you are looking to change your career, then please read on.

Requirements to Become an ADI

You must have held a full driving licence for at least three and half years.
Be over the age of 21.
The ADI Registrar has refused applications or removed an ADI from the register when they’ve had 5 or more penalty points within the last 3 years under the ‘totting up’ rules.
You must be able to read a number plate (old style) in good daylight from 27.5 meters (90 ft) or a new style number plate from 26.5 (87 ft)
You must also get a new Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to start your application, even if you already have one.

My first jobs were working in offices, nine to five, I hated doing the same thing day in, day out.

I then got a job which involved driving hundreds of miles every day. I loved being out on the road and away from the office. It was at this job that I met my husband and where I worked when I went on maternity leave.

A while after having my first child I was approached by someone who ran a local youth club asking if I’d like to work a few hours during the evenings. It was perfect as I didn’t need to find childminders.

During my time as a youth worker I took as many training courses as I could, this included trampoline coaching. I also applied to be a co-ordinator for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. I loved the challenges these roles gave me.

I noticed that once the youth club members reached a certain age they stopped coming to the weekly sessions. I would see these young people around either driving a Vauxhall Nova or pushing a pram. It was then that I decided to train to become a driving instructor, putting two things I loved together, driving and teaching.

I found a company to train me and I’ve never looked back!! This was 27 years ago!!

At first I only taught learners but it wasn’t long before I started to train people to be instructors. When I trained to be an instructor myself I found the training hard and I believe my knowledge as a trampoline coach helped me hugely. You can’t just teach someone to do a back somersault just like you can’t just teach a learner to drive a car.

I knew when I started to train instructors I wasn’t going to let them struggle with their training like I had, I would help and support them and I have done that not only whilst they were training but once they have fully qualified as an instructor and are part of Ladydrive and His & Hers Driving School.

As a driving instructor we have the freedom to work the hours we want to work and we can increase or decrease the hours we work to fit around our home lives and financial commitments. If you think that you’d like to work for yourself with the support and backing of a well established company, please contact me.

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