The Datum Report

Occupation 8215 · Process, plant and machine operatives

Driving instructors

Driving instructors co-ordinate and undertake the instruction of people learning to drive cars, motorcycles, buses, fork-lifts and haulage vehicles.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic requirements. Candidates must have held a current driving licence for four out of the last six years, have no motoring or criminal convictions and be over 21 years old. To gain registration as an Approved Driving Instructor, entrants must pass a three-part examination. Instructors for Large Goods Vehicles (LGVs), Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCVs) and Fork-lifts are trained internally or at specialist training establishments.

What the work involves

• checks instruction and learning standards and discusses teaching plans with other instructors
• plans lessons in accordance with the needs and abilities of individual pupils
• explains driving techniques and assists pupil with difficulties
• familiarises pupil with the Highway Code and different road and traffic conditions
• advises pupil when to apply for theoretical and practical driving tests and familiarises them with test procedures and standards

Also called

Cycling instructor · Driving instructor · HGV instructor · Instructor (driving school) · Motorcycle instructor

What it pays

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Bus and coach drivers · Delivery drivers and couriers · Heavy and large goods vehicle drivers · Road transport drivers n.e.c. · Taxi and cab drivers and chauffeurs