Lead Instructor

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We're currently recruiting for a Lead Instructor who will be responsible for overseeing, implementing and delivering high quality and engaging practical instruction and training.

Responsibilities

• Oversees, implements and delivers sessions in line with approved standards documentation to ensure all learning outcomes are achieved and dynamically adapt lesson delivery to meet learners needs and course outcomes.

• Appropriately plan resource requirements for courses to ensure efficient and effective delivery.

• Organise and provide training support as a second instructor or safety instructor

• Undertakes practical assessment to confirm competence in specific task-based skill.

• Takes a lead role as Subject Matter Expert in articulating ways to enhance and improve delivery and learner experience during course design, review and modernisation activities.

• Proactively maintains currency and competence of skills, qualifications and experience in line with technical experience and role requirements, and teaching and learning best practice to improve planning and delivery of teaching.

• Responsible for ensuring all staff are up to date with current safe systems ways of work and ensure delivery team are of the required standard, and responsible for conducting and adhering to risk assessment and reducing hazards.

• Provide oversight by undertaking annual peer observations, establish competency levels and endorse delivery when standards are completed.

About You

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in relevant technical fields

• Education/Learning qualification relevant to role

• Knowledge and experience to deliver peer observations

• Experience of delivery training/instruction in similar environment

• Ability and knowledge to plan course resource requirements, with experience of supervising a team

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience to respond to learners needs; professionally as a technical subject matter expert and educationally as a learning practitioner

• Proactively contributes to and leads on the course design, review and modernisation activities in role of SME

• Share peer to peer competency knowledge and best practice in accordance with skills, qualifications and experience or equivalent and competence package.

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 them. In order to achieve this, we need to simplify, be truly client focused about our clients and invest in our learning capability.

What’s in it for you?

• Offering a salary of up to £33,200 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 weeks…and 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

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita. You’ll 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 we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

Join us and discover a career with purpose. #CareersWithPurpose

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What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. We will be in touch with you regarding your application shortly, however if you need to contact our recruitment team please email CPScareers@capita.com

At Capita, we’re committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. We want everyone to have the best chance of succeeding as they move through their application and start their career with us. We are an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, we want to hear from you if you’d like to discuss any adjustments you might need during your recruitment process. Please email reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we’ll get back to you to discuss. For more information about equal opportunities and the types of adjustments we can offer, please visit the Capita Careers website.

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