UK Operational Training Team Leader

The UK Operational Training Team Leader is responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of UK resilience and support contracts ensuring high-quality training operational support and client engagement across a range of specialist capabilities.

Job title:

UK Operational Training Team Leader

Job Description:

The UK Operational Training Team Leader is responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of UK resilience and support contracts ensuring high-quality training operational support and client engagement across a range of specialist capabilities. This includes supporting wildfire preparedness training Operational Resilience Teams at operational and strategic levels and overseeing the delivery of specialist courses such as Road Traffic Collision Instructor.

The role provides professional teaching subject matter expertise resource coordination and day-to-day leadership across assigned programmes and work streams while fostering a culture of excellence safety continuous improvement and customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead manage and deliver UK resilience and support contracts ensuring effective training operational support and client-focused delivery across all relevant programmes.

• Provide a professional teaching capability to support learning and development across UK resilience operational resilience wildfire and specialist technical training courses including managing specific work streams as allocated by the Head of Delivery.

• Coordinate the allocation of staff and resources to programmes and courses within the scope of the role.

• Undertake duties as Subject Manager Course Director and Subject Matter Expert (SME) supporting the delivery of training at various levels and liaising closely with Sales and Marketing Curriculum Design and other delivery teams at the Fire Service College (FSC).

• Deliver existing FSC training products lead course delivery within your area support other subject managers develop competences in additional subject areas as needed and deliver both on-site and off-site within the UK and internationally.

• Develop new training products acting as SME for UK resilience wildfire Operational Resilience Team training and specialist courses such as Road Traffic Collision Instructor; gather market intelligence and engage with clients to provide advice support and future development opportunities.

• Plan and implement activities to meet business needs in line with FSC aims and the business plan manage delegated tasks and brief management of progress and potential risks.

About You

Essential Criteria

• Substantial operational fire and rescue service experience with a proven track record in training design delivery and development across resilience operational response or specialist technical training.

• Detailed understanding of UK fire and rescue service operational resilience including the requirements of operational and strategic level training exercising and multi-agency preparedness.

• Road Traffic Collision Instructor.

• Demonstrable leadership and team management skills with previous people management experience within a local authority fire and rescue service environment.

• Knowledge of current fire service training standards regulations and best practices.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to motivate and inspire others.
  

Desirable Criteria

• Relevant teaching or training qualification (e.g. Certificate in Training and Development Level 3 Award in Education and Training or equivalent).

• Experience managing projects or programmes within emergency services.

• Awareness of current developments in fire safety and prevention.

• First aid or trauma care qualification.

About Fire Service College:

The Fire Service College (FSC) is a world-renowned further education training college that provides a range of resilience focused courses and programmes ranging from apprenticeships to fully accredited qualifications. On a 300-acre site FSC provides both practical and classroom-based learning in addition to remote/customer site delivered courses. FSC courses and programmes are accredited with SFJ Awards Highfields Institution for Fire Engineers FireQual Lantra JOIFF and Proboard/NFPA. Customers range from fire and rescue services police forces ambulance services the military various commercial organisations to individuals who wish to further their careers. FSC attracts learners from international fire and rescue services from the Middle East and across Europe.

Our Vision is for Capita Fire Service College to be a strategic learning partner for our clients. This will allow us to improve our clients organisational capability and jointly deliver better business outcomes for order to achieve this we need to simplify be truly client focused about our clients and invest in our learning capability.

Whats in it for you

• Offering a salary of up to 45500 depending on skills & experience

• 23 days holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave

• Company matched pension life assurance a cycle2work scheme 15 weeks fully paid maternity adoption and shared parental leave paternity pay of two weeksand plenty more

• Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle from discounts on retail and socialising to health & wellbeing travel and technology

• The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice

• Access to our Employee Network Groups which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open inclusive platform

• Subsidised canteen bar and gym facilities onsite (free membership)

• Free accommodation during the working week if required

• Free parking onsite

• Better work life balance

• Opportunity to gain further qualifications and upskill

• You will work at a world-renowned further education training college

Youll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. Youll be joining a network of experienced innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and well provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

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What we hope youll do next:

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Location:

Moreton In Marsh

United Kingdom

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1