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The starting salary for this role is £34,356 per annum for working 36 hours per week.

Environment, Transport and Infrastructure's (ETI) overall purpose is to enable safe, reliable journeys and sustainable, prosperous places both now and in the future. We do this through our Environment Service, Highways and Transport Service.

About us

The Road Safety and Sustainable School Travel team sits within the Highways Service but works across the entire ETI directorate. The team consists of four sub teams: a Road Safety Engineering Team (responsible for highway improvements at collision hotspots and safety audits); Safer Travel Team (responsible for road safety education in schools, school travel planning and school crossing patrols); Cycle Training Team (responsible for providing cycle training, primarily via schools); and the Safety Enforcement Team (responsible for the maintenance and implementation of safety cameras and supporting the police in prioritising enforcement resources). The aim of the team is to reduce road casualties and antisocial road user behaviour and promote more walking and cycling and active travel to schools.

In this role, you will work as part of the Safer Travel Team. We are a small, friendly, motivated, high performing team who are highly regarded across the directorate and successfully work on several projects within our schools.

We also lead on a process to assess road safety outside schools, assess the safety of routes to schools, and manage the school crossing patrol service. We work closely with a range of other teams in the ETI directorate including Highways, Transport Policy, Major Schemes, Passenger Transport and Transport Development Control. We also work regularly with teams across the wider Council including both Schools Admissions and Property services.

Our team regularly responds to queries from County Council members and schools and also works with District and Borough colleagues, members and parish councils.

About the role

Though the Safer Travel Officer role is based at Quadrant Court in Woking, you will be required to travel around the county to visit highway sites and attend meetings at various offices. You will therefore require a valid driving licence. There may be occasional conferences and training to attend elsewhere in the country too.

As a customer facing service, the needs of customers are at the heart of everything we do. A key responsibility of this role is to carry out road safety outside schools assessments, safety of route checks, and assist where necessary with the development and implementation of the new pedestrian training programme for Surrey schools participating in the nationally recognised Modeshift STARS School Travel Plan scheme.

About you

You will have a good track record of communicating with different stakeholders in a variety of settings as well as excellent verbal and written communication skills. You will have the opportunity to use your proven problem-solving skills and ability to exercise high levels of initiative to devise and implement workable solutions.

To be considered for shortlisting your application will clearly evidence:

• Educated to ‘A’ level, HND standard or equivalent or able to evidence ability at an equivalent level
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, practices and policies applicable to specialist area
• Excellent IT skills, including MS Office and database management systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to build sound relationships with customers
• Ability to apply specialist knowledge to respond to complex enquiries from a range of stakeholders
• Previous practical experience in a relevant field
• Ability to manage a range of projects through to completion
• Effective interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values we follow.

For more information please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application. We also invite you to read our Life at Surrey handbook to see insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council.

This advert will close at 23:59 on 30/09/2023 with interviews to follow.

An Enhanced DBS ‘Disclosure and Barring Service’ check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children’s Barred List check will be required for this role.

Contact details

For an informal discussion please contact Rebecca Harrison on 01483 517515 or by e-mail at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application. Please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days’ annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

Our commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.