Bus driving instructor jobs in Finland
Bus driving instructors teach people the theory and practice of how to operate a bus safely and according to regulations. They assist students in developing the skills needed to drive and prepare them for the driving theory tests and the practical driving test.
Bus driving instructor – how much is the pay in Finland?
What the trade paid in 2024
| Median | 18.80 €/h |
|---|---|
| Bottom tenth | 14.22 €/h |
| Top tenth | 24.49 €/h |
| Employees | 674 |
Pay by sex, 2024
| Sex | Median | Employees |
|---|---|---|
| Women | 18.18 €/h | 156 |
| Men | 18.96 €/h | 518 |
Bus driving instructor - Which skills are essential?
Ensure all students falling under an instructor or other person’s supervision are safe and accounted for. Follow safety precautions in the learning situation.
Understand and anticipate the performance and behaviour of a vehicle. Comprehend concepts such as lateral stability, acceleration, and braking distance.
Keep up with new research, regulations, and other significant changes, labour market related or otherwise, occurring within the field of specialisation.
Be able to drive vehicles; have the approapriate type of driving license according to the type of motor vehicle used.
Follow up on students’ learning progress and assess their achievements and needs.
Take students' personal backgrounds into consideration when teaching, showing empathy and respect.
Understand road traffic laws and the rules of the road.
Diagnose issues with vehicles and assess the efforts and costs required to resolve them.
Identify the learning struggles and successes of students. Select teaching and learning strategies that support students’ individual learning needs and goals.
Know the mechanical components used in vehicles and identify and resolve potential malfunctions.
Employ various approaches, learning styles, and channels to instruct students, such as communicating content in terms they can understand, organising talking points for clarity, and repeating arguments when necessary. Use a wide range of teaching devices and methodologies appropriate to the class content, the learners' level, goals, and priorities.
Adapt to new technology integrated in cars; understand systems operation and provide troubleshooting.
Keep the vehicle clean and in roadworthy condition. Ensure regular maintenance of the vehicle and provide valid official documents such as licenses and permits where appropriate.
The body of rules, procedures and regulations related to health and safety measures intended to prevent accidents or incidents in transportation.
Instruct students in the practice of driving a vehicle such as a bus, taxi, truck, motorcycle or tractor safely, practice mechanical operation on roads with little traffic, and promote an anticipatory way of driving. Recognise the student's difficulties and repeat the learning steps until the student feels at ease. Plan routes on different types of roads, during rush hour or at night.
Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate work.
Observe lights on the road, road conditions, nearby traffic, and prescribed speed limits to ensure safety. Interpret traffic signals and act accordingly.
Park motorised vehicles without compromising the integrity of vehicles and safety of people.
Ensure that the vehicle is equipped with accessibility equipment such as passenger lift, seat belts, restraining harnesses, and wheelchair clamps or webbing straps.
Support and coach students in their work, give learners practical support and encouragement.
The goals identified in curricula and defined learning outcomes.
Stimulate students to appreciate their own achievements and actions to nurture confidence and educational growth.
Drive defensively to maximise road safety and save time, money, and lives; anticipate the actions of other road users.
Bus driving instructor - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Processes and principles related to the customer, client, service user and to personal services; these may include procedures to evaluate customer's or service user's satisfaction.
Know the characteristics, maintenance requirements and operating procedures of various kinds of engines such as gas, diesel, electrical, and engines with steam propulsion plants.
Drive vehicles in urban areas. Interpret and understand transit signs in a city, the regulation of traffic, and the related common automobility agreements in an urban area.
Read maps effectively.
Field of information which distinguishes rental agency classification systems, containing types and classes of vehicles and their functioning and components.
Drive a bus in reverse and make turns.
Instruction targeted at adult students, both in a recreational and in an academic context, for self-improvement purposes, or to better equip the students for the labour market.
Evaluate the students' (academic) progress, achievements, course knowledge and skills through assignments, tests, and examinations. Diagnose their needs and track their progress, strengths, and weaknesses. Formulate a summative statement of the goals the student achieved.
The learning disorders some students face in an academic context, especially Specific Learning Difficulties such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, and concentration deficit disorders.
The components, regulations, and properties of theoretical and practical driving tests.
The way energy forces interact and affect components in motor vehicles such as cars, buses, invalid carriages and other motorised vehicles.
Types of car engines in road and racing cars, inclusing those with emerging technologies like Hybrids and electric motors, and how they work.
Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.
Use didactic ways to educate on road traffic laws, on the appropriate driving behaviour, on authorisation requirements for vehicles and trailers, on the operation of different types of vehicles, and on the dangers of road travel.
Use your memory of geographic surroundings and detail in navigation.
The different types of driver's licenses, the procedures for obtaining them, and which vehicles may be driven holding each type. Any special conditions or responsibilities tied to a driver's license.
Theoretical and practical applications of the science studying the action of displacements and forces on physical bodies to the development of machinery and mechanical devices.
Efficiently operate common communication systems used in emergencies, such as base station mobile transmitters and receivers, portable transmitters and receivers, repeaters, cellular phones, pagers, automated vehicle locators, and satellite phones as required.
Know the different engine components, and their operation and maintenance. Understand when repairs and replacement should be undertaken.