School Crossing Patrol Various locations across Leicester City

Leicester Bus Partnership; Leicester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A local city services provider is seeking a part-time School Crossing Patrol in Leicester. This rewarding role involves ensuring the safety of children and adults at designated crossing points. Responsibilities include controlling traffic, guiding pedestrians, and reporting incidents. Candidates should have good communication skills and an understanding of road safety. This position offers flexible working hours, training, and benefits such as pension membership and discounts on local transport.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Local Government Pension Scheme

Flexible working options

Discounts on transport

Qualifications

• A friendly attitude with good communication skills.
• Clear understanding of distance and speed of vehicles.
• Ability to stand and walk for set periods.

Responsibilities

• Instruct adults and children to cross the road safely.
• Monitor traffic flow to ensure safety for pedestrians.
• Report problems or incidents to the Team Leader.

Skills

Good verbal communication skills

Knowledge of road safety

Physical fitness and alertness

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Job details

Job reference REQ6527 Date posted 02/12/2025 Application closing date 04/01/2026 Location Various locations across Leicester City Salary £12.85 - £13.05 Per Hour Package Blank Contractual hours 6.5 Basis Part time Job category/type City Services Attachments Blank

School Crossing Patrol

Part-time / from 6 to 8 hours per week / Permanent

Join us to play a crucial role in ensuring the safety of children and adults travelling to and from school.

Working in the heart of our communities, this is a rewarding job, ensuring that the welfare of children, parents and members of the public is at the forefront. With the authority to stop traffic, you’ll instruct adults and children to cross the road safely. You’ll be provided with relevant training, a full waterproof uniform, and a Stop Sign, to enable you to carry out your duties in the safest manner. As the dedicated School Crossing Patrol, you’ll be committed to working each shift in all weathers.

We have part-time, permanent vacancies which range from 6 to 8 hours per week from Monday to Friday. These are Term-Time positions working 38 weeks per year. On average you’ll work approx. 40 minutes in the morning and 40 minutes in the afternoon.

We currently have vacancies at

Beaumont Lodge Primary, St Thomas More Primary and St John The Baptist Primary.

What you’ll be doing

At your designated site, you’ll use a school crossing patrol sign (lollipop) to give clear signals to drivers to help pedestrians cross the road safely. You’ll control children who are waiting to cross the road and use appropriate action to avoid traffic accidents. Taking into consideration the speed of vehicles, nearby road junctions and adverse weather conditions, you’ll monitor traffic flow to ensure it is the safest time for children and adults to cross. You’ll report any problems or incidents to Team Leader in the first instance, and the Head Teacher where necessary.

What you’ll need

You’ll have a friendly attitude with a good level of verbal communication skills. With some knowledge of road safety, you’ll have a clear understanding of how distance and speed of vehicles could change with road conditions and prevailing weather. You’ll have a level of physical fitness and alertness, to stand and walk for set periods of time. Punctual, reliable, yet assertive, you’ll be committed to ensuring the safety of both pedestrians and drivers.

It is desirable that School Crossing Patrols live within walking distance of the school where they work.

Please note, if you are a student applying; please check that you can work both morning and afternoon shifts, five days a week.

As part of your pre employment checks you will be required to complete an enhanced DBS check

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build acouncil that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed you'll be called for an assessment and interview thereafter.