School Crossing Patrol & ST Supervisor
Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for a School Crossing Patrol Supervisor to join our Public Transport Team. You will be part of a busy and friendly team who work with schools to encourage sustainable and active travel by promoting and providing a number of in house and external initiatives all designed to change behaviours towards a car-free school run. Providing School Crossing Patrollers at some of our busiest schools helps to provide a safe route for children to get to school.
This is an exciting and flexible supervisory role which can be adapted to suit your work and life balance.
This position is offered on term-time only, 32 hours per week/ 39 weeks. The advertised salary will be pro-rated to £26,020 per annum.
About us
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.
You will make a meaningful difference for Buckinghamshire’s school communities by supervising the Councils school crossing patrollers (SCPs) located in the North of Buckinghamshire, including the Aylesbury vale area and north side of Wycombe. This equates to approximately 25 direct reports. Line management duties include providing training, mentoring and support as required to support colleagues and service delivery.
About the role
This is an existing role with a great combination of being out and about visiting your patrollers, whilst you will also spend some of your time in the office on management and monitoring tasks. Your main responsibilities will be to visit all your patrollers at least once during the school half term, arrange their training and manage HR processes associated with having direct reports. Our sites typically operate between 8am and 9am in the morning and 2pm to 3:30pm in the afternoon.
You will be required to manage and monitor your SCPs to ensure that best practice is being followed, and the service is being delivered safely and effectively. This includes monitoring performance, dealing with Human Resource related issues, including regular 1:1s, Coaching for Performance sessions, and managing safety issues reported. We adhere to the guidelines as set out by Road Safety GB and our own School Crossing Patrol Codes of Practice and Guidelines.
At each site visit you are required to undertake dynamic site assessments during every half termly site visit, whilst reporting issues to your Line Manager, maintenance and parking issues to Fix My Street, and escalating more complex issues if necessary. You will also be required to log all incidents, near misses, verbal and physical abuse onto the Councils Assessnet system and escalate to Thames Valley Police as required.
Attendance at Regional Meetings are a good place to network, share best practice and helps with issues.
Sometimes a site has to be disestablished as it may no longer meet criteria for instance, and you will be required to support schools and local communities by providing guidance on securing funding and sponsorship.
Some of your tasks you will be working closely with the SCP Supervisor for the South of the County such as ensuring School Crossing Patrol Codes of Practice and Guidelines are current, including but not limited to site establishment and disestablishment procedures, and developing and adopting a sponsorship pack for potential site sponsors. As well as ordering of school crossing patrollers equipment and uniform and associated financial transaction.
Since both School Crossing Patrol Supervisor roles are part time, the working hours are co-ordinated to ensure coverage through the week and during periods of leave.
This is an exciting and varied role and there will be collaboration with other member of the Schools Sustainable Travel Team to provide school travel planning support in particular where this corresponds to school crossing patrol sites. Other features of the job are likely to include advertising, marketing, and promotions all with the aim of encouraging behaviour change away from private car use.
Your office base will be in Walton Street, Aylesbury, but you will be required to travel around the County for site visits and meetings.
On-the-go:
Our ‘on-the-go’ roles mean you’ll usually start and finish your day from a base, moving around between different locations throughout the day. You won’t need a fixed desk to work from, but you’ll have access to our network where you can keep up to date with admin and the latest staff updates.
About you
Experience or detailed knowledge in the transportation field is not essential but you must be aware of the social, health and environmental benefits that active and sustainable travel choices can bring.
You should be able to use a computer for normal word processing and spreadsheet functions and be a skilled communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
You should also have the ability to work on your own initiative, as well as having a flexible approach to team working.
An enhanced check with the Disclosure and Barring service will be required
Other information
For further information on this role please see the attached job summary.
Closing date: Thursday 23 July 2026
Interview date: tbc
There is lots more information about what we do on our website: School Travel Planning – Buckinghamshire Council and if you would like to have an informal conversation with the recruiting manager, please contact: [email protected]
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020 and 2023).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
We understand that candidates may use AI tools to assist with their applications. While we welcome innovation, we expect all submissions to reflect your own experience, skills, and achievements accurately. Please ensure your application is truthful and demonstrates your personal capabilities, as this will be assessed during the selection process.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so please be advised to submit your application as early as possible.
Our values and culture
We have a set of values, which our employees have chosen, that represent what we are – Proud, Ambitious, Collaborative and Trustworthy.
By joining Buckinghamshire Council, you can expect:
- a fair and inclusive culture
- the chance to really make a difference to those around you
- health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
- a unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
- ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
- opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events
At Buckinghamshire Council, we know that our biggest strength comes from the people that work for us, and that’s why we’re working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation.
From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it’s important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.
We believe our workforce should reflect the diverse communities we service in Buckinghamshire, and are looking for like-minded individuals to join us in promoting equality, fairness, and inclusion for everyone.
About the Business Unit
Our Communities directorate works across the county to deliver a number of the key customer-facing services that our residents, businesses and visitors rely on every day.
This directorate includes a wide range of services, including:
- collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
- maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
- ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
- managing Country Parks
- leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
- Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
- Cemeteries and Crematoria
The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment.
We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created. Whilst making major changes to contracts affecting residents across Bucks, we continue to focus on delivering great customer service. You will join us on our journey of continuous improvement - whether that’s through developing strategies and ways of working or delivering services on the ground, every person in Communities is a valued member of the team.
We recognise and reward you
Hard work and success deserves recognition. That’s why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various Cafés, restaurants, shops and auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.
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