An exciting opportunity has arisen to Lead and Manage a newly formed training function within home to school transport. As Transport Training Team Manager, you will lead and develop our training function, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, compliant and financially sustainable training programmes.
You will manage a small team of trainers and support staff, oversee quality assurance and compliance, support income generation, and identify opportunities to continuously improve and expand our training offer. Working closely with transport operators and internal colleagues, you will ensure our training provision continues to support safe and effective transport services for children and young people.
About the Team
Warwickshire County Council's Home to School Transport service supports over 11,000 children, young people and adults to access education and placements every day. As part of our commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement, we are developing a dedicated training function responsible for delivering First Aid, Safeguarding and Passenger Assistance & Training Standards (PATS) across our transport network.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and ambitious team at the heart of Transport Delivery and play a key role in shaping the future of transport training in Warwickshire
About the Role
An enthusiastic and forward-thinking leader who is passionate about developing people, improving services, and delivering excellent outcomes.
You will be someone who enjoys building relationships, identifying opportunities for improvement, and turning ideas into reality. Comfortable working strategically and operationally, you'll be confident leading a small team, influencing stakeholders, and using data and insight to drive performance.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to shape and grow a training function that makes a real difference to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people across Warwickshire.
Key Requirements
We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification
Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund'
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
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Additional Information
The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible. We don't want to keep you waiting so we will be starting the initial shortlist and assessment process while the job advert is running. Please check your emails or applicant account via our jobs portal for any updates on your application
To discuss the role further please email sampowers@warwickshire.gov.uk (Service Manager, HTST) up until 24th July or lilianhunter@warwickshire.gov.uk (Head of Service, HTST) after 24th July.
Closing date: Midnight 10/08/2026
Interview date: 17/08/2026
Should you require application forms in an alternative format / language or any adjustments to be made throughout the application process or upon appointment, please contact hrandpayroll@warwickshire.gov.uk and we will make every effort to meet your specific requirements.
Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce. See more
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Location: Countywide
Region: Countywide
Salary: £41,771 to £44,075 per annum
Job reference: RA0007915
Apply by: 10/08/2026
Package: Permanent
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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