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Rare opportunity: Help those affected by road crashes and create lasting change with Brake, the renowned road safety charity.
Who we are: Brake is the national, acclaimed charity delivering the National Road Victim Service, a specialist, accredited, UK-wide support service for road victims, delivering case-managed care for anyone who has been bereaved or seriously injured in a road crash or who is supporting a road crash victim.
Not your average job: This is a highly specialised frontline role supporting people affected by traumatic road deaths and life-changing injuries. We are seeking candidates with a strong understanding of trauma-informed practice and experience supporting people through the impact of traumatic bereavement and/or injury.
You will provide a specialist trauma-informed and bereavement-informed approach to care, helping individuals and families navigate the immediate and long-term impact of sudden loss or catastrophic injury. You will undertake a comprehensive needs, risk and safety assessment from which a bespoke support plan will be agreed with the person and/or families, ensuring that immediate wellbeing needs, vulnerabilities and safeguarding considerations are identified and addressed.
By joining this role, you will make a profound difference to individuals and families during their most difficult moments, helping them regain stability, access practical and emotional support, and navigate the complexities of the criminal justice or coronial process with guidance and care.
Take a look at our comprehensive job description for more details.
What we offer:
- A generous 35 days of annual leave (including bank holidays and 3-day shutdown period between Christmas and New Year, pro-rata for part-time working patterns)
- Birthday day off (taken any time)
- Enhanced sick pay and compassionate leave
- Death in service benefit
- Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Flexible working
- A rewarding role with purpose
- Be part of a skilled, friendly team with an engaged Board of Trustees
Who you are: We need energised and resilient self-starters with experience in supporting traumatic grief and post-traumatic stress. a background in providing high-quality emotional support and advocacy. Experience in the following sectors often provides a robust toolkit of high-level transferable skills: Police or criminal justice roles, family liaison, counselling or trauma support, health and social care, casework in any related field
Specifically seeking candidates with:
- Experience with people affected by trauma, sudden bereavement, or serious injury
- Understanding of trauma-informed practice and ability to provide support sensitively
- Experience identifying and responding to safeguarding and vulnerability concerns
- Strong advocacy skills ability to act as a powerful voice for service users, expertly navigating external networks, assemble resources and cross-functional support where required.
About us: At Brake, we are committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued, respected, and supported. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and life experiences, and particularly encourage candidates from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ community, and people with disabilities to apply.
We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our work and enable us to deliver the best possible support to individuals and families affected by road trauma. As a proud Disability Confident employer, we don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it
If you are passionate about making a difference and share our vision for a world where no one is killed on our roads, we want to hear from you.
Not for traffic offenders: Please note: Due to the nature of our work we can't accept applications from traffic offenders where offences are unspent. Candidates will be asked to disclose whether they have any unspent points on their licence at interview.
An enhanced DBS check is required due to the sensitive nature of our service.
Join us today and be part of the solution!
If writing a cover letter isn't your thing, why not send us a short video telling us why you think you'd be a great fit for our charity.
Registered Charity
51 - 100
We work to stop road deaths and injuries, support people affected by road crashes and campaign for safe and healthy mobility for all.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Thank you!
Hybrid - within commuting distance of one of our campuses in London, Birmingham, Blackburn, Doncaster, Bradford, Redcar or Bristol
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Data Engineer to join our TED team and play an important role in building and maintaining the technical infrastructure that supports the NIoT and TED.
The National Institute of Teaching (NIoT) has an unswerving commitment to high-quality, evidence-informed teacher education, and is on a mission to improve teacher and leader development across the education system.
A key part of that mission is our Teacher Education Dataset (TED), an ambitious data and research initiative focused on building better evidence about teacher development and what makes teaching impactful. By bringing together education, research and digital infrastructure, TED will support new insight into how teachers develop, improve and thrive across their careers.
About the role
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Data Engineer to join our TED team and play an important role in building and maintaining the technical infrastructure that supports the NIoT and TED. Working at the intersection of data engineering, data and research, the postholder will help develop secure, reliable and scalable systems that enable robust analysis and contribute to high-quality, evidence-informed improvement across the sector.
Corporate responsibilities
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To ensure that the responsibilities of the role are carried out in a way which reflects the mission and the values of the NIoT.
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To be aware of and observe all policies, procedures, working practices and regulations, and in particular to comply with policies relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Confidentiality, Data Protection and Financial Regulations, reporting any concerns to an appropriate person.
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To comply with all reasonable management requests.
Key Responsibilities
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Design, build and maintain Azure-based data pipelines to support the ingestion, transformation and curation of TED datasets.
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Develop and maintain Azure SQL databases and research-facing schemas across raw, transformed and curated data layers.
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Write efficient, secure and well-structured T-SQL to support ingestion, validation, transformation and optimisation.
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Contribute to the development and ongoing refinement of a Common Data Model across multiple education data providers.
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Integrate and harmonise data from school MIS and EdTech platforms, including Bromcom, Arbor and Wonde.
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Build and maintain robust validation, logging, auditing and reconciliation processes to improve data quality and trust.
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Support secure data handling, including pseudonymisation, access control and compliance with data-sharing agreements and security requirements.
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Work closely with analysts, researchers, architects and partners to deliver scalable, analytics-ready data solutions.
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Contribute to agile planning, technical design, documentation and operational handover.
Essential criteria
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Proven experience in data engineering, including building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines.
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Strong experience with Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL Server.
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Strong T-SQL skills, including schema design, stored procedures and query optimisation.
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Experience implementing validation, monitoring, logging and reconciliation controls within data pipelines.
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Strong understanding of secure data architecture and the handling of sensitive personal data.
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Experience with Azure DevOps, version control and CI/CD practices.
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Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.
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Ability to communicate effectively and work successfully in a multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
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Experience with education datasets, school MIS systems or EdTech platforms.
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Experience with common data models, longitudinal datasets or research-oriented data infrastructure.
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Experience with Power BI, Fabric or related analytics technologies.
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Experience in a public sector, education or high-governance data environment.
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Interest in applying data engineering to improve education and teacher development.
Key benefits
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Generous Annual Leave – 27 days’ holiday a year (plus 8 bank holidays).
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Flexible Working – we offer flexible start and end working times, with hybrid working in place for all roles.
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Pension - Entry to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
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Salary Sacrifice Schemes – we offer salary sacrifice schemes for bikes, cars and tech!
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Lifestyle Benefits – We offer discounts on gyms, cinema, retail and much more!
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Parenthood Leave – We offer above the statutory minimum for maternity, adoption and paternity leave.
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Working Environment – We have a stimulating, supportive and rewarding working environment with a dedicated team of likeminded professionals.
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Support: Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides confidential support for employees on personal or work-related matters.
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Development: We fully support the development of our staff and ensure that you have high level of continuous professional development.
We think a wide range of different work and educational experiences could support you to be successful in this role. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries, and are committed to employing a team that has diverse skills, experiences and abilities.
If you have any queries about this role, please contact our recruitment team.
For more information and to apply, please visit our vacancies page.
Closing date: 10.00am on Monday, 1 June 2026.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
This post requires a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with a Children’s Barred List Check and Occupational Health Check is required as a condition of employment.
