Prevention & Education Trainer

inploi; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent fire service in Greater Manchester is seeking a dedicated Prevention & Education Trainer. This role involves delivering and assuring high-quality training programs while promoting safety education across communities. The ideal candidate should possess strong teaching skills, confidence in using technology, and the ability to engage diverse audiences. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility between office and remote work, crucial for inspiring and training individuals effectively.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Hybrid working model

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience in developing creative training resources.
• Skills to deliver innovative training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver quality assurance of Prevention training.
• Develop training resources for various audiences.
• Coordinate training and promote quality assurance.

Skills

Excellent teaching or training skills

Ability to use technology in training

Excellent communication skills

Ability to organize workload

Knowledge of Prevention topics

Job description

Prevention & Education Trainer £30,024 - £33,699 2 x 12 month Temporary Contract / Secondment Location: Various. Hybrid working and working across various sites in Greater Manchester. Named base is GMFRS Fire Service Headquarters, Swinton

Delivering the Right Message to the Right people and Making it Count

Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service is the second largest Fire Service in the country, serving a population of 2.5 million people. We are constantly developing new strategies to fulfil our goals in making Greater Manchester communities safer and stronger.

About the Role

As Prevention & Education Trainer, reporting into a Prevention & Education Training Officer, you will be responsible for the delivery and quality assurance of Prevention training and learning programmes. You will be a key participant in the creation and delivery of Prevention training to a variety of audience and you will take the lead on some projects. You will support Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service’s overall strategic goals relating to Prevention by ensuring people are trained to high standards.

Tasks will include:

• Developing innovative training resources for face‑to‑face delivery, online or virtual learning
• Work with specialist teams to develop and deliver training
• Deliver training to a breadth of audiences
• Be involved with the coordinating training to a breadth of audiences
• Actively promote quality assurance and improvement packages
• Administrative duties relating to training

This role is available as a secondment opportunity if your Director of service area supports secondments.

About you

Ideally you will have previous experience of developing creative resources and delivering training to a wide range of groups. But vitally you will have the confidence and skills to deliver fresh and innovative sessions.

You will need to evidence in the recruitment process you have:

• Excellent teaching or training skills with ability to work with a range or audiences
• Ability to use a range of technology mediums in resource development and training delivery
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills both orally and in writing
• The ability to work on your own initiative, organise workload and time effectively
• Ideally subject matter knowledge of several Prevention topics which may include but are not restricted to Fire Safety in the Home, Home Fire Safety Assessments, Safeguarding, Prevent (radicalisation), Road Safety and Water Safety.

See role profile for a full description of what the role entails. Crucially you must be seeking to inspire others and looking for an opportunity to really make a difference.

About us

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non‑binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/

Our offer

In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:

Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Home | greater.jobs

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Hybrid working

This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid‑19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our [Manchester city centre office / Fire and Rescue service HQ in Swinton / other location] with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.

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