EPRR Training Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Training Manager, you will be at the heart of a team of outstanding colleagues including a Head of EPRR Training, Senior EPRR Training Managers and EPRR Training Coordinators.

• You will meet with team members, and subject matter experts across a range of organisations and professions and turn their requirements into course content that makes an impact and prepares colleagues and the organisation for emergency incidents.
• Your delivery of this training will directly support colleagues to work effectively in their organisations and will support some colleagues to undertake exercises with confidence.
• You will have a genuine interest in the teaching, learning and assessment process. You will be an essential colleague in delivery against UKHSAs strategic objectives, as part of our Category 1 responder status to major incidents.
• You will collaborate with colleagues on a remote and hybrid basis, and will deliver training provision through online, blended, hybrid and in-person methods.
• As a Training Manager you will be responsible for co-designing and implementing teaching materials on courses within pre-existing frameworks. Training Managers are critical in the training delivery process, ensuring delegates and candidates are learning and can apply their learning.

Training Managers will:

• work with Training Coordinators to ensure courses are run efficiently and that resources are appropriately assigned
• Ensure courses are delivered in accordance with agreed standards in EPRR training, and any appropriate assessments are conducted with rigor and in accordance with regulations of the awarding organisation.

Training Managers are responsible for the end-to-end process for teaching, learning & assessment, and will work closely with Senior Training Managers in the design and delivery process, innovating where appropriate, and using best practice in teaching and learning for adults.

The Training Managers will also ensure courses are sufficiently promoted, working with Training Coordinators to ensure stakeholders are made aware of the programme offer, and will maintain appropriate records relating to key quantitative data as required by the EPRR Training team and the EPRR Division.

This role has a travel element (usually within the UK), including overnight stays. Though International travel be required at times.

For a full list of the main duties and responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Essential criteria - you will be assessed on the below sixessential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description Document.

• Minimum Level 3 full teaching/training qualification (e.g., Cert Ed)
• Experience of teaching adults
• Experience in the design, delivery, evaluation, and/or assessment, of training in EPRR
• Effective communicator, both verbally and in written form.
• Experience of communicating with and presenting to diverse audiences with a range of learning needs.
• Flexible approach to working arrangements and able to work away from home; including possession of a current passport or willingness to obtain one, and able to travel by air to international events.

Selection Process Detail

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours/Strengths/Ability/ Experience/Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the listed six essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 1250-word Statement of Suitability.

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

• 1. Meets all essentialcriteria

• 2. Meets someessential criteria

• 3. Meets no essentialcriteria

Please note Pile 1 & 2 will be carried though to Shortlist

Shortlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will shortlist on:

• Minimum Level 3 full teaching/training qualification (e.g., Cert Ed.
• Experience of teaching adults.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment. Please do not exceed 1250-words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview

Success profiles

You will be invited to a face-to-face interview, during the interview we will assess your behaviours, technical, experience, ability and strengths.

The interview will be in two parts. One part will be a microteach. You will teach a topic to a group of UKHSA colleagues. At least two observers will be present and will provide an evaluation of your session for discussion.

The other part will be a Success Profiles interview, with a panel.

For the microteach, you will be given advance notice of the topic and teaching arrangements, if selected for stage 2. It is important for candidates to be aware observers are assessing teaching and learning, and not just presentation or facilitation skills.Behaviours to be assessed:

• Seeing the big picture
• Changing and improving
• Working together
• Delivering at pace

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Please note you will not be able to upload your CV. You must complete the application form in as much detail as possible. Please do not email us your CV.

Eligibility Criteria

External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

Hybrid any Core HQThis role is being offered as hybrid working based at any of our Core HQs. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow.

This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London)

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard

Person Specification

Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Essential

• Application form & Statement of Suitablity

Behaviours

Essential

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing And Improving
• Working Together
• Delivering At Pace

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

Any Core HQ

Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London (Canary Wharf)

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)