Stop and smell the flowers…life is worth slowing down for and it’s never been more important to prioritise the mental heath and well being of our ADIs.

The past 18 months have really highlighted how much our days were absorbed in long working hours and a hectic lifestyle. Putting family and life itself aside to grow our school. The determination to also help as many pupils pass their driving test as we possibly could. This wasn’t healthy for long term mental health and well being.

Being a driving instructor involves long hours of very mentally focused tuition and being hyper vigilant of ever changing surroundings for long periods of time.

Over the lockdowns it’s given us and our instructors much needed space to reflect. Getting to spend time with family. Enjoying time outside of a tuition car and expanding their professional development. As a result this has improved both their physical, mental health and well being, along with making them even better instructors.

We’re incredibly proud of our instructors and we’re keen to see this continues.

Changes are coming in the way we run Driver Skills North East Driving School. This is to put at the forefront our family orientated ethos and ethical tuition practices. The way for us to do this is by having set structured lesson times. As well as modified opening and closing times. We’ll be recruiting more ADIs to help with the volume of pupils. So if you’re interested in becoming a Driver Skills North East ADI you can find out more information on that here.

Our lessons will be structured so that no instructor is doing more than 6 hours of tuition a day. This will include plenty of downtime in between to both sanitise the car, as part of our COVID secure procedures. To spend time reflecting on the last lesson. Preparing for the next and to have a few moments to do absolutely nothing at all as that’s really important too.