Road Safety Assistant - Craven
Grade D
Salary: £10.98 to £11.39 per hour (£21,189 to £21,968 pro rata)
Hours: Term Time Only – 24 hours per week
Contract: Fixed Term until March 2024
Location: Craven
Are you looking for a part time role term time only? Do you want a role that is Monday to Friday with the occasional weekend? Are you a keen cyclist and either be a qualified Bikeability or prepared to become one? Are you interested in developing road safety skills in the next generation?
We are looking for Road Safety Assistants to join our Road Safety & Active Travel team in Craven.
Our Team
The Road Safety & Active Travel team delivers the councils statutory services to provide road safety education, training and publicity programmes and collision and casualty data analysis and services.
Additionally, the team delivers a programme of road safety and active travel programmes that are designed to reduce road casualties and increase active travel on behalf of the Director of Public Health and the 95 Alive York & North Yorkshire Road Safety Partnership.
The role
As our Road Safety Assistant, you will be responsible for booking our Bikeability cyclist training with schools and other venues throughout the Craven District. You will organise and support a team of part time Bikeability training instructors and will work with them to deliver training. You will also carry out site risk assessments; provide schools and staff with all required documentation, keep accurate detailed records and stock control of equipment and resources.
You need to be a well organised, confident, outgoing person who can work with children and adults to deliver road safety training programmes.
The role is based at NYCC Highways Area 5 depot in Skipton. We anticipate that you will work from home for part of your normal working week.
The work is mainly Monday to Friday but some weekend and evening working may be required.
Ideally, we are looking for someone with an understanding of the principles of safer cycling on the public highway and Road Safety Education, Training and publicity, however, we welcome applications from keen cyclists as training will be provided.
A full DBS clearance is required which we will provide.
What you will bring
You will have an understanding of administrative tasks, record keeping and report writing
Working for us
When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. Our holiday entitlement starts at 24 days rising to 33 days per year with continued service (FTE), plus public holidays. Up to 10 days extra leave can be purchased at any time & you can also bank your additional time as flexi, save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme with a 22.6% contribution from NYCC, explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK’s favourite high-street and online retailers and if you are looking for salary sacrifice schemes such as: Car scheme, Salary Finance, Cycle to work, Technology you can spread the cost from your monthly salary. Plus lots more……..
Contact and Apply
If you are interested in learning more about this fantastic opportunity please contact Fiona Ancell on 01609 797489 or email fiona.ancell@northyorks.gov.uk for an informal conversation.
Applying is easy, click on apply, register your details and upload your CV.
Key dates:
Closing date: Sunday 29th January 2023
Interview date: week commencing 6th February 2023
Job Description - Road Safety Assistant.docx
Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.
NYCC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.