Road Safety Skills Improvement Officer - Norwich, United Kingdom - Norfolk County Council

Norfolk County Council

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Norwich, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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**Permanent contract | £20,806.05 to £22,018.37 per annum (Scale H) | 24 hours per week | County Hall, Norwich

A rewarding opportunity has become available within our Road Safety skills Team within Public Health to support; the Road Safety Partnership and our ambition; 'To promote strategies and positive behaviours and skills to reduce risk taking behaviours that may contribute to being involved in a killed or seriously injured collision on Norfolk's Roads.

We are looking to appoint a Road Safety Officer who is an Approved Driving Instructor (ADI) and experienced in behaviour change to support the driving; on-road elements, develop tool kits, resources, and content for campaigns within this job description on a flexible part time bases (24 hours).

The Road Safety Officer position is an important member of the Road Safety Team, they will need to be creative, have a passion for keeping up to date with; data, research and best practise, have excellent; communication and organisation skills, patient and build positive relationships across the partnership and with different members of the community.

You will be responsible for providing a preventative, evaluation led approach and driver expertise to help reduce causalities on Norfolk's roads.

You must have a full and clean license and you will be required to drive and provide some driver training as part of this role.

Older Driver programmes including reviewing and evaluating our current GOLD scheme, creating and delivering; theory sessions/tool kits and attending Older driver subgroups/forums.
Young and newly qualified driver's. Creating and evaluating tool kits/resources and attending young driver subgroups/forums.
When required provide resilience to the Road Safety Skills lead to deliver NDORS and business schemes of work.

Please submit a CV and a supporting statement with examples detailing how you meet the essential and where appropriate desirable criteria for this position.

For more information or a further discussion about this position, please contact either:
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

Competitive salary
Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
Health and Wellbeing services including fasttrack physiotherapy and a free counselling service
Flexible working opportunities including flexitime, part time, remote and hybrid working dependant on your job role and business need.
Financial benefits such as:

- ' Norfolk Rewards' our employee discounts programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.

A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
Relocation expenses paid upfront (where applicable)
An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job. Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full
Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria.

You can also find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Closing date: 12 December 2023 at 23:59

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage.

Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk.

Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents.

We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.