Road Safety Tutors (Casual Posts) – Ref: EE02421                   

Salary G4: £10.21 per hour

Casual contract

Walsall Council’s Road Safety Team is looking to increase its pool of Road Safety Tutors to work on a casual basis.

As a Road Safety Tutor you will be expected to deliver cyclist (Bikeability) and pedestrian training programmes at various schools and sites across the Borough, to the National Standard.  You must either be a 1^st4sport Bikeability Cycle Instructor or willing to work towards this qualification (training will be provided).

It is essential that you are a regular cyclist, have general road safety knowledge and previous experience of working with school staff and younger children.

You may be required to support the work of the Road Safety Team with other initiatives. As a Road Safety Tutor, you are responsible for organising your own work, and for completing course related documentation.

This post is covered by the Government’s Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. 

Road Safety Tutors are responsible for liaising with schools to arrange and deliver class talks and outdoor pedestrian training to school age children. The successful candidates should have the ability to travel around the borough.

The ideal candidate will need to:

• Be a first rate communicator, able to work in the community with children, parents, teachers and head teachers.
• Be self-reliant, well organised, energetic and enthusiastic

For an informal discussion about these posts contact Alana Barlow on 07415 234157 or Victoria Saunders on 07747 565681.

Walsall Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children, young people and vulnerable adults entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment.

We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.  

Note: Applicants appointed to posts that require an enhanced DBS clearance must declare any periods of time that they have lived, studied or worked abroad and be prepared to provide an Overseas Criminal Records Certificate (OCRC) or a Statement of Good Conduct (SOGC) relating to anytime they were overseas.

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Closing date: 12th September 2021