Assistant Inspector

We recognise the challenges that people with protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Do you have a passion for active travel and a desire to influence change?
Do you have an interest in street design, accessibility, design drawings and design standards?
Are you looking for a role where you make a difference?
If so, we would love to hear from you!, You will:
+ Work with a range of stakeholders to ensure ATE’s inspection functions are well understood and embedded in design practice.
+ Assist in delivering the scheme inspection regime, highlighting examples of good and poor practice, and engaging with local authorities to raise standards.
+ Ensure that a range of needs are considered when inspecting and advising on scheme design including children, older people, women, disabled people and people from a range of ethnic backgrounds.
+ Help support local and combined authorities to enable them to design and deliver high quality active travel infrastructure.
+ Be part of a team of talented inspectors who can make an impact at the scheme level as well as by influencing the policy agenda.
Development Opportunities
This will be a challenging role, but we will invest in your personal and professional development and support you to develop your knowledge and skills of:
+ Accessible and inclusive design.
+ Project and programme management tools and techniques to deliver desired outcomes.
+ Stakeholder engagement.
+ Scheme delivery throughout the project lifecycle.
+ The range of tools used to deliver on this work.
+ Understanding of the Civil Service.
Additionally, we will encourage and support you to undertake further learning towards professional qualifications e.g. apprenticeships or chartered institutes (ICE, CIHT, CILT, RTPI, CMLI etc.)
For further information, please see the attached Role Profile, We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Working Together
+ Developing Self and Others
+ Communicating and Influencing, Interviews/assessments are likely to be held week commencing 6th January 2024
We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
+ An interview.
+ A Presentation.
This interview could be conducted online via Teams. Further details will be provided to you should you be selected for interview.
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
For further information on Success Profiles visit our Careers website.
Please take note that ATE does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, DfT is committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at an interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
If you need a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, you should contact Government Recruitment Service via dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Reasonable Adjustments
As a Disability Confident Leader employer, we are committed to ensuring that the recruitment process is fair, accessible and allows all candidates to perform at their best. If a person with a visible or non-visible disability is substantially disadvantaged, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5-year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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This is an exciting challenge for anyone with a passion for active travel and a desire to influence change. You will have good technical aptitude, communication and stakeholder engagement skills and be willing to learn. An ability to deliver the day-to-day functions is essential.
Whilst no previous experience in the active travel field is necessary, you will have an interest in the following:
+ Street design.
+ Accessibility and inclusivity.
+ Design drawings and modelling information., + Demonstrable understanding of diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity and experience of applying these principles to deliver the best outcomes
+ Experience of contributing to high performing teams
+ Experience of using both verbal and written communications to deliver high quality outcomes.
Your personal statement should be no longer than 750 words.

Active Travel England (ATE) is the government’s executive agency responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling the preferred choice for everyone to get around in England. There has never been a more exciting time to join us to create happier, healthier communities, by helping to transform local transport and enabling half of all short journeys in England’s towns and cities to be walked, wheeled or cycled by 2030. We are raising the standards of walking, wheeling and cycling infrastructure across England, by overseeing improved design, and increasing skills and capability in local authorities.
We are looking for people who are interested in becoming transport professionals to expand ATE’s inspection functions. The team includes specialists from many professions to ensure a holistic view of design is taken. ATE enforces new standards in cycling and walking provision, raises performance, and is a repository of expertise in scheme design.

Alongside your salary of £34,233, Active Travel England contributes £9,917 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Please note, the above example is based on the National minimum salary. The employer pension contribution will be 28.97% of your specific salary.
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits. We offer generous annual leave, attractive pension options, flexible working, inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.
Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.