Job Introduction
Are you passionate about improving road safety for the people of Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent?
This exciting role is funded by the Staffordshire Safer Roads Partnership, which seek to achieve a long-term sustained reduction in personal injury collisions.
The role sits within a team of education and training professionals who develop and deliver road safety resources into schools and colleges and organise training and events targeted at a wide range of priority road user group audiences.
Main Responsibility
- Ownership and development of current road safety schemes targeted at priority road users such as motorcyclists and young drivers and the development of content for new casualty reduction workstreams.
- Delivering road safety education into schools and colleges in Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent through key stages 3-5.
- Responsibility to ensure that resources and activities are targeted and relevant and in line with national and local guidelines through monitoring and evaluation.
The Ideal Candidate
You will
- have experience in an education or training field, with the skills and confidence to deliver educational materials to a wide variety of audiences including children.
- be an excellent team player working alongside other professionals to plan, develop, deliver, and assess a wide programme of initiatives ensuring relevance and effectiveness.
- be passionate about road safety and dedicated to the partnership aims of reducing death and injury on our roads with a keenness to develop a wide understanding of road risk and road safety educational techniques.
- build excellent working relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.
- enjoy the responsibility and ownership for the continued provision of current schemes and be flexible and adaptive to the continued development and innovation of roads safety education.
For further information about the role please contact Stephen Mottram, Interim Road Safety Manager, on 07973 763086 or by email: stephen.mottram@staffordshire.gov.uk.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
