Fire Safety Team Leader

Carbon 60 is looking to recruit a Fire Safety Team Leader for its client based in Moreton in Marsh

Although this is a predominantly site based role there will be some flexibility for hybrid working

Working week is **9.00am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday**

**Salary**

The pay rate for this role is **£40000pa**

**About the role**:
To undertake the duties of Subject Manager, Course Director and Subject Matter Expert supporting the delivery of various levels of training. This will require close liaison with the Business Development, Sales and Marketing and colleagues within the other delivery teams. The role will include responsibility to ensure the health, safety and welfare of learners, colleagues and visitors, and delivery off site at other training venues.

To work with Skills for Justice and the Quality Team to revise all our Prevention and Protection courses to align with new qualification standards. The approach to be adopted will be one of 'digital first'. The courses will need to be maintained and evolved to remain up to date.

To support the annual delivery plan by actively seeking opportunities, broadening skills to support the requirement for delivery tutors to be skilled in a range of specialist areas, and assist with the delivery of courses that fall outside of these.

To manage the team of Fire Safety Instructors, monitoring performance and development with their roles to ensure succession planning within the team. Develop annual objective's specific to the individuals and the needs of the department. Conduct regular 1-2-1's, team meetings and standardisation activities to ensure continuity across the team.

**What you'll be doing**
- Day to day management of the Fire Safety Training team.
- Conducting observations of staff in the teaching environment.
- Liaise with awarding bodies to ensure qualifications are fit for purpose.
- Provide internal quality assurance of completed learner assignments and assessor feedback.
- Delivery of Level 3, Level 4 and Level 5 Fire Safety related programmes to a range of customers including Fire and Rescue Services, the Public Sector and Private Sector clients.
- Facilitation of virtual course delivery to maximise engagement and to provide a dynamic and innovative learning experience.
- Marking delegate assignments in a timely manner, providing constructive feedback and additional support where this is required.
- Developing lesson plans, assessment plans, varied learning materials and other related materials to provide a engaging learning experience that blends theoretical knowledge with real-life scenarios.
- Providing coaching and mentoring to delegates to ensure they achieve their maximum potential on the courses being undertaken.
- Liaising with customers for the development of bespoke training courses that meet their needs and delivers clear learning outcomes.
- Maintaining up to date knowledge of the relevant qualification standards and embedding changes into delivery.
- Maintain current knowledge of Fire Safety developments, changes in legislation.

**What we're looking for**
- Managerial or team leader experience in either FRS or Private sector.
- Hold an assessor qualification.
- Must have at least 2 years' current experience of working within a Regulator's Fire Safety Department (e.g FRS, MOD, Local Authority).
- A minimum of a level 4 initial teaching qualification (CTLLS or AET), equivalent or higher.
- Demonstrable ability to prepare lesson plans and learning delivery support materials that articulate learning outcomes and assessment criteria.
- Fire Safety Qualifications
- Knowledge and experience of prevention and detection of fire in domestic, commercial and industrial premises.
- Detailed knowledge of the following Approved Document B, BS9999 and other relevant standards

**About The 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 it 300-acre site FSC providers both practical as well as classroom-based learning in addition to remotely / customer site delivered courses. FSC courses and programmes are accredited with BAC, Skills for Justice, Pearson, iQ, Institution for Fire Engineers 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. Learning whose vision is to be a strategic learning partners for our clients. This will allow us to improve our clients organisational capability and jointly deliver better business outcomes for them.

**What's in it for you?**
- A competitive basic salary
- ** 23** days' holiday **(rising to 27)** with the opportunity to buy extra leave
- Free accommodation throughout the week for full time trainers
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our ch