Jobs in Torpoint, uk

Location : HMS Raleigh, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2PD

Contract : Full time, permanent

Salary : Up to £36,700 gross per annum

Closing Date : 27 May 2025

Interviews : 3 June 2025

Are you a Centre Manager looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Centre Manager to join our team.

About the role

We are seeking a Centre Manager who will manage the day-to-day operations of the cadet training centre based and operated from HMS Raleigh.  This includes managing the Training Support Officer, Chief Instructor and the training throughput both planning and delivery, quality assurance seeking continual improvement in all that we do.

Our safety culture is critical, and this is focused on supporting volunteers so they can deliver safe, enjoyable yet challenging training to young people across the Royal Navy Cadet Forces. This along with responsibility for the material state and financial performance of the centre, as required by MSSC and in accordance with its policies and regulations.

The manager of the SCTC is responsible for ensuring the training centre is run in a manner appropriate for the residential training of young people in accordance with the MSSC’s approach to the provision of national training. Our training centre is hosted within HMS RALEIGH, and it is essential that the Centre Manager maintains a professional and collaborative relationship with all appropriate departments within HMS RALEIGH.

Responsibilities

• Lead the provision of high-quality training, creating a valuable and impactful experience.
• Ensure that best practise in accordance with the NGB guidelines.
• Deliver highly impactful training courses to cadets and volunteers.
• Lead the planning process for the training centre, ensuring training is scheduled in line the national training model and against the defined training needs.
• Ensure that all visiting groups and their staff are fully briefed on the Centre’s policies and procedures and that there is adequate supervision of Cadets and young people at the centre, so as to discharge his / her duty of care for them.

Requirements

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack .

If you are interested in this role, please apply now!

Benefits

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Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.