Pedestrian Trainer - Primary Schools

Role Responsibility

The Safer Active Journeys team at Kent County Council provide pedestrian training team at primary schools in Kent.  The road safety training is delivered at the roadside, is practical,and is delivered over the course of a school term. 

Walking is great for our well-being, it keeps you healthier and is good for the environment. Help us to teach children the skills for how to be safer pedestrians.

You can find out more about our pedestrian training package here: Small Steps - KCC Road Safety

As part of the Safer Active Journeys team your role as a Pedestrian Trainer will be to co-ordinate and deliver Small Steps schemes to schools in your area.  We are looking for trainers in Maidstone, Swale and Ashford who have some experience of working with children in an educational setting. 

The Small Steps project aims to reduce child pedestrian casualties across Kent by equipping children with the skills to become safer pedestrians. In addition, the project aims to improve children’s health by enabling them to walk safely to school and thereby reducing congestion and pollution. 

The role is offered on a zero hours contract, you are able to set which days and how many days you would like to work each week in liaison with the Project Officer and the schools in your area. 

Please see the attached job description for further information on the experience and skills required for the role. 

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Responsible for the day to day running of the Small Steps and other associated programmes in local district.

• Liaise with selected schools to co-ordinate the delivery of pedestrian training schemes.

• The recruitment and training of volunteers in each school. 

• To perform and accurately record risk assessments of suitable training sites within walking distance of schools.

• To deliver Pedestrian Training to groups of children with the aid of parent volunteers

• Keep accurate records of the training delivered.

• To liaise and communicate with parents/carers as required.

• To help at promotional events for the Small Steps project as appropriate.

• The post holder must carry out their duties in accordance with the KCC Policy and Guidance on Data Protection, Information Governance, Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy Statement, Safeguarding and Child Protection, the Health and Safety Policy and the Service’s requirements and standards. This includes ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults the employee is responsible for or comes into contact with, reporting any safeguarding concerns to the Designated Safeguarding Lead at the setting and to their line manager.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

Please contact Katie Ireland if you would like to discuss this role - smallsteps@kent.gov.uk 

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Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.