Join Learning Kerb as a PDI, part-time ADI or full-time ADI and get the backing of a growing local driving school while keeping the independence and flexibility that makes this career so attractive.
You concentrate on teaching. We help build the business around you.
Not every instructor wants the same working week. That's why Learning Kerb is designed to work for trainees, part-time instructors and ADIs who want to build a full-time driving school business.
For trainee instructors teaching on a trainee licence who want to gain experience with real pupils while developing towards ADI Part 3.
Build your teaching skills, your pupil base and your understanding of the business with support around you.
You don't need to teach five or six days a week to be part of Learning Kerb.
Choose the days and hours you want to work and build a pupil base around another job, family commitments, semi-retirement or simply the lifestyle you want.
For qualified instructors who want to build a larger local pupil base with the marketing, systems, branding and support of Learning Kerb behind them.
You run your diary and teach your pupils. We help build the infrastructure around you.
Some instructors want a full diary. Some want three days a week. Some are building a new career. What matters is building a business and working pattern that's right for you.
Learning Kerb is designed to take care of much of the business infrastructure around you, freeing up your time to concentrate on teaching and your pupils.
Build the diary that suits you. There isn't a charge per pupil or an artificial limit on the number of pupils you can teach.
Learning Kerb takes care of wider brand and local marketing, helping generate pupil enquiries while saving you hours trying to become a marketer as well as an instructor.
Learning Kerb branding for your tuition vehicle gives you a consistent, professional presence on the road. You choose, provide and run your own car.
Professional Learning Kerb branded workwear helps you look part of the team from the day you start.
Use a dedicated diary and pupil-management system to organise lessons, pupils and your working week professionally.
We'll help establish your own local instructor Facebook business page, allowing you to build your reputation and audience alongside Learning Kerb.
Development doesn't stop when you qualify. Continue developing your teaching skills, knowledge and professional standards.
Get practical support as you develop your business rather than having to work everything out yourself.
Ask questions, share experiences, discuss difficult lessons and learn from other instructors. Self-employed doesn't have to mean alone.
Full franchise fees are charged for only ten months of the year.
That gives you two months each year without your normal full franchise payment — whether you use that breathing room for holidays, quieter periods or simply spending less time in the car.
Because one of the reasons for becoming self-employed is having more control over your life.
Running a driving school involves much more than sitting beside a pupil.
Websites. Social media. Local marketing. Enquiries. Branding. Reviews. Business systems. Content. Google.
Learning Kerb takes care of much of that infrastructure and marketing, helping build your local presence while you concentrate on the part you trained for — teaching people to drive.
The aim is to pretty much build the driving school business around you.
Learning Kerb is being built differently because that experience comes from actually working as an instructor.
I've spent six years working in an instructor car and I know how isolated the job can sometimes feel.
You can spend an entire working day without talking to another instructor. Then you have a difficult lesson, an unusual situation, a problem with a pupil or simply want a second opinion — and there's nobody sitting in the office beside you to ask.
I don't want Learning Kerb instructors to work like that.
“Run your own business — with people around you when you need them.”
The aim is to build a genuine local team. Somewhere instructors can ask questions, share experience, discuss lessons, continue learning and occasionally just have someone who understands the job to talk to.
We'll agree the areas you'd ideally like to teach in and work towards building a geographically sensible diary around them.
Learning Kerb doesn't operate rigid exclusive territories. Different instructors may work within the same area so we can meet pupil demand and offer greater choice.
But that doesn't mean flooding an area with instructors.
The aim is simple: enough instructors to serve the area — and enough pupils to keep those instructors busy.
You're self-employed, and we want it to feel that way.
You choose when you're available and how much you want to work.
You choose and provide the tuition car that works for you and your business.
Build relationships with your pupils and develop your own local reputation.
Build skills, experience and a local presence that continue to have value throughout your instructor career.
As part of the franchise, we'll help establish your own instructor Facebook business presence alongside the Learning Kerb brand.
That helps you build your own local reputation, showcase pupil successes and develop an audience over time.
And if you eventually decide that becoming completely independent is right for you, you aren't starting your marketing presence again from zero.
We'd rather give instructors reasons to stay than make them afraid to leave.
Learning Kerb isn't only for instructors we've trained ourselves.
If you're already working independently, currently with another driving school or returning to the industry and considering a change, we'd be happy to have a conversation.
Whether you want a full diary or just a few days each week, the starting point is understanding how you want your business and working week to look.
Full-time, part-time or somewhere in between.
The point of being self-employed is having choices. Learning Kerb is designed to support different ways of working rather than forcing every instructor into the same model.
No sales presentation and no pressure. Tell us whether you're a PDI, qualified ADI or considering becoming an instructor, where you'd like to work and roughly how you'd like your working week to look.