Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 2 years
This role is about helping children get safely to school by empowering school crossing guards to be an important and effective part of the school community.
You are responsible for ensuring that school crossing patrols are safe, supportive and confidence building places for students of all ages and ability to develop their independence skills.
As screens hold all our attention and roads get busier there has never been a more important time to ensure a positive energy in the community and a helping hand crossing the road. This role ensures that happens.
It is a unique role that is rewarded with a close connection to the impact being delivered and the families being served.
You will work on site with your team, be office based and based from home in line with flexible and hybrid working policies. This is a full time contract on a two year fixed term.
What you’ll be doing:
A typical day could involve a visit to offer coaching and 121 support to the team and may involve supporting an investigation into any safeguarding concerns or a health and safety incident report.
You will hold and attend team meetings being part of the broader, newly established Independence and Transport Service. You will also contribute to strategic preparing for adulthood initiatives and ensure you and your team contribute to how the new service grows.
You will work with your direct reports, your management team and stakeholders on a day-to-day basis to ensure you have a strong connection to service delivery.
You will build solid team foundations and use the extensive experience within the team of around 20 school crossing guards to learn how to develop this service to achieve outstanding results for those who rely on it.
What you’ll need:
You will need resilience, energy and a passion for being a part of delivering outstanding results for children and families of all ages and abilities.
You will be motivated by seeing your team and those they support succeed. You will capture impact through considered outcome measures.
You will be confident managing risk but create balance so that it is not detrimental to confidence building.
You will be experienced in and around the school environment and have the interpersonal skills to be an important part of the community.
You will enjoy a challenge and understand how this role supports creating safe spaces to empower independence.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
Call to action:
If you think this role might be for you we want to hear from you. Please contact Maria Coulson on 0116 454 2230 or [email protected] for more information.
Interviews / Assessments will take place on the 17th of August
