Cycle Training Instructor

Cycle Training Instructor

Location:

Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

Basis:
Fixed Hours

Salary £26,403 pro rata £13.69 p/h (pay award pending). Contractual hours 0 Basis Fixed Hours. Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

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Job profile for Cycle Training Instructor

We will consider and fund training for suitable candidates.

Interview date:
To be arranged

For an informal discussion, please contact Emily Tester, Road Safety Training Manager on

You will need to a good team player, flexible, a good communicator and record keeper. You should have completed your Level 2 Award in Instructing Cycle Training or working towards your Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) qualification. Training may be offered to candidates with relevant experience.

You will be:

• Encouraging and developing safe cycling skills.
• Increasing knowledge and understanding of the road and traffic environments.
• Giving trainees the confidence to use their cycles on local roads.
• Part of a small team

You will have:

• A willingness to be flexible
• An ability to communicate with confidence and patience
• An ability to motivate and interact with trainees
• An ability to work on your own initiative
• An ability to work as part of a small team of instructors
• Be able to complete training records for each trainee

You may work with colleagues from other teams in City Transport and may be expected to assist with other road safety training schemes.

As a casual cycle instructor you will deliver National Standards training known as Bikeability to children aged 5 to 15, and to adults. You will also deliver bike maintenance training.

You will deliver basic skills, on road and advanced skills training. The sessions are delivered in non-traffic and traffic environments and are delivered throughout the year between 8.30 and 17.00.

Additional hours are available and weekend working may be available.

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds.

In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce ().

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.