School Crossing Patrol Manager

Job Description

School Crossing Patrol Manager

Permanent,Full Time

£31,832 to £37,450 per annum

Location:Essex

Working Style:Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 3rd September 2024

The School Crossing Patrol Service plays a crucial role in maintaining safety standards for school patrols, ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation.

The School Crossing Manager is responsible for maintaining this compliance and managing associated risks. They are also tasked with developing and implementing a business plan that includes high-quality operational models for resource management.

Their goal is to maintain the county's high level of service and customer satisfaction. This involves a continuous effort to improve and adapt to the needs of the community, ensuring the safety of our children on their journey to and from school.

Accountabilities

· Lead, develop, implement, and maintain a School Crossing strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the SDP Service Plan and Educational Priorities. Translating this into goals, plans and ways of working.

· Responsible for operational planning and performance reviews to maintain exceptional service delivery and ensures the political objectives and priorities of the council are met.

· Responsible for ensuring all policies and strategies comply with the Council's requirements with respect to Safeguarding and Data Protection.

· Responsible for leading on emerging legislation to recommend changes to council policy to ensure statutory compliance within the service.

· Work collaboratively with internal and external partners to develop, manage and implement a strategy encompassing policy and compliance.

· Responsible for the effective management of the budget, working collaboratively with finance to ensure reporting meets agreed performance targets.

· Responsible for recruitment of new crossing officers and minimising the number of vacant posts exploring new and innovative ways to fill posts.

· Ensure the continuity of quality service through resource capacity building for key support opportunities and practical implementation plans to ensure efficient processes and value for money.

· Prepare reports for senior leaders, scrutiny committees and policy development groups, detailing any proposals for change to the service delivery.

· Responsible for managing complex issues to meet customer needs and liaising with members, media, police, the public and schools on any incidents appertaining to compliance and risk management.

· Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

Skills and Knowledge

· Educated to RQF level 4 vocational qualification, or equivalent significant experience.

· Evidence of continuing professional development with expert knowledge in relevant professional area.

· Extensive experience of service delivery, with a demonstrable and proven record of achievement.

· Effective decision making skills, well developed analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to devise creative solutions to complex issues. Proven ability in developing and writing reports, strategic plans, and other key related documents.

· Skilled in performance and relationship management, providing highly complex information and effectively negotiating, influencing, and motivating situations and demonstrating strong interpersonal, communication and organisational skills.

· High level IT skills across a range of applications.

· Knowledge and understanding of suite of digital programs to create the offer, produce reports and evaluate the effectiveness.

· Ability to manage own time effectively.

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Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle,or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

Why Essex?Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read moreabout us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go tohttps://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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Essex County Council (ECC) is one of the largest and most dynamic local authorities in the UK, serving a population of 2 million residents, and has a very successful track record of delivering transformational change. ECC anticipated change was needed in the public sector and has worked to deliver better quality at lower cost. We have an ambitious transformation agenda – one with the scope to reach every part of the council. We are changing the way we think, the way we work, and the ways in which we deliver our services. We are committed to becoming a place where individuals, partners and communities feel proud to play their role and genuinely want to belong. We’re immensely proud of our flexible working options.