Road Safety Assistant

2 weeks ago


Yate, United Kingdom South Gloucestershire Council Full time
How you'll make a difference

As a Road Safety Assistant, you will be delivering road safety and sustainable travel education into specific schools to help children and the community stay safe on the roads.


What you will be doing
  • You will be delivering road safety training to children; this can involve presenting in school assemblies and classrooms.
  • When required, you will attend public road safety events to promote road safety and sustainable travel messages.  
  • Supporting the Road Safety team, you will book schools for interventions, ensuring that they have sufficient resources for campaigns and projects.
  • Acting as a bridge between schools and the Road Safety Officer, you will attempt to resolve issues in the field whilst promoting active and sustainable travel.
  • Working alongside organisations such as Living Streets and Sustrans, you will promote active and sustainable travel and help to supervise our team of school crossing patrols

What we need from you
  • You will hold a vocational qualification (e.g. NVQ 2 or equivalent, or similar level of accreditation).
  •  You must have experience of working in a similar service area or delivering training to school pupils and others in the community.
  • We require you to be able to demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation, regulations and codes of practice relating to road safety education and school crossing patrol.

 

Things you need to know:

  • Please note that due to the nature of this role it is a requirement of employment that an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is obtained for this post.
  • This role is partime working 22.2 hours per week and term time only (39 weeks per year), salary pro rata to hours worked.

 

The closing date for applications is 11.55pm, 31st December 2024.

Interviews will be held on 10th January 2025.

 

How a career at South Gloucestershire Council is different:

  • We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
  • We trust our team to work in the way which allows them to make the biggest difference and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
  • We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Ensuring all our staff are given right skills, knowledge and support to recognise and respond effectively to potential abuse or neglect.
  • We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

  • We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
  • We're planning for the future; building and improving the roads, railways, schools, green spaces, and houses.
  • We’re providing essential services across our communities to ensure they are safe and well maintained.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

 

We’re making a difference, be part of it

 

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