Road Safety Assistant

White Trading Limited; Chelmsford; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sick Pay

Competitive salary

Up to 5 extra leave days

RJ Rewards discounts

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension scheme

Job summary

Ringway Jacobs is seeking a Road Safety Assistant to deliver school-based road safety education across Essex. You will work within a team delivering interventions, raising awareness and driving behavioural change in line with Vision Zero objectives.

The role requires a Full UK driving license, willingness to travel, and experience in education or training, with strong MS Office skills and excellent communication. Flexible/hybrid working across Essex sites is available.

Qualifications

• Full UK driving license and willingness to travel.
• Experience in education or training.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and online meeting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deliver road safety interventions, raise awareness and conduct educational sessions for children and adults.
• Build and maintain relationships with partner organisations, schools, colleges and community groups.
• Contribute to creating educational resources and materials to support delivery.
• Record data from visits and evaluate session outcomes.
• Ensure health and safety management for activities.

Skills

Driving license

Education experience

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Road Safety Assistant

Contract: Essex Highways

Location: Flexible / Hybrid working (Various sites across Essex)

Contract Type: Permanent (School term time only)

Our client, Ringway Jacobs, a leading provider of integrated highways management, is seeking a Road Safety Assistant to join their team across various sites in Essex.

The Road Safety Assistant will be working within Safer Essex Roads Partnership working to deliver Vision Zero, zero road deaths or serious injuries in Essex by 2040. This role will be working with partner organisations of SERP and with public to communicate road safety messages.

This role will deliver the road safety programme for education in primary schools. The post holder will be required to work across the whole county, however, to keep travel to a minimum, the group of schools that you will be assigned will be as close to your home location as possible. You will report to the Road Safety Team Leader who will allocate work, provide training and development as required.

The Role

• Work as part of a team delivering road safety interventions, raising awareness, educating and behavioural change sessions to children and adults.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with partner organisations, institutions, schools, colleges, community groups, special interest groups and businesses.
• Contribute to developing educational interventions, resources and materials to support delivery.
• Record data from visits and evaluation of the sessions delivered.
• Management of Health and safety for the activities undertaken.
• Other Ad Hoc duties to fulfil the requirement of the role

About You

• Full UK driving license and is willing to travel.
• Experience of education / training.
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and online meeting platforms eg Zoom or MS Teams).
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

At Ringway Jacobs we recognise that our people make the difference, and in order to do what we do well, particular care is taken in nurturing and investing in our people. That’s why you will always be given the opportunity to utilise your expertise and develop your career.

Ringway Jacobs recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles. We therefore welcome applications from people looking for an alternative working pattern e.g. part-time hours, job share etc. Please let us know on your CV or cover letter if this is what you are looking for.

In return for your hard work you will receive:

• Sick Pay
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to purchase up to 5 days extra leave
• A variety of discounts through our “RJ Rewards” app, including restaurants, holidays, days out etc
• Life Assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme

The Company

We are Ringway Jacobs, a leading highways service provider working with local authorities across the UK. Formed in 2005, specifically to provide road network management solutions to local government, our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class. We support over 10,000 miles of highways, 10,000 miles of footway, almost 7,800 miles of public rights of way and 242,000 street lights. We excel in delivering safe, sustainable service excellence, through our passion, integrity and collaborative culture.

Ringway Jacobs is an equal opportunities employer. We wish to ensure equality of opportunity in employment and the fair treatment of all our employees. As part of this commitment, we proudly support the Armed Forces Community by identifying roles for which we can offer a guaranteed interview to service leavers, veterans, reservists, cadet force adult volunteers, and military spouses/partners who meet the essential criteria for the position.

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