These posts are open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.

About us:

We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

We look forward to reading your application for the role of Technical Skills Trainer – Technical Surveillance Unit (TSU).

The selected candidates will be responsible to a Training Team Manager for the day to day delivery of training programmes, supervising students and, where appropriate, associate trainers to ensure that learning objectives are met to course specifications and agreed quality standards. 

They will work with other College departments to provide subject matter expertise in the formulation of evidence-based policing standards and the design and development of learning products.

Some of your responsibilities will include:
•    Delivering training programmes to agreed content and assessment specifications, developing and adapting, where appropriate, teaching techniques, lesson plans, scenarios and training materials to meet individual students’ abilities, levels of understanding and learning styles, to ensure that all students receive a consistent, high quality training intervention which addresses their learning and development needs.
•    Continually researching and refreshing own subject matter expertise and work with Policing Standards Managers, Knowledge, Research and Education partners, Training Designers and external stakeholders to share knowledge, help identify innovative solutions and draft and develop evidence-based policing standards, guidance and associated curriculum specifications and learning interventions to support the promotion and embedding of consistent approaches to professional practice across policing.
•    Taking ownership of specific training modules, courses or work-streams, reviewing and revising lesson plans and training materials to address changes to the curriculum, professional practice, guidance, standards and/or feedback from quality assurance data trends and update version control log to ensure that learning programmes are always accurate, up-to-date and that definitive records of revisions are maintained.

To be successful in this role you’ll need to:
•    Be a qualified Trainer to meet the Police Sector Standard for the Training of Trainers and a relevant Level 4 qualification such as Certificate in Education and Training, Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS Level 4) or NVQ Level 4 Diploma in Learning and Development or equivalent.
•    Be an experienced and current Assessor competent to the Police Sector Standard for the Training of Assessors.
•    Have current proven competence, experience and knowledge to the level required within technical surveillance to the NPCC Manual of Standards/ Authorised Professional Practice (APP).

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Up to date proven competence, experience and knowledge to the level required within technical surveillance to the NPCC Manual of Standards/ Authorised Professional Practice (APP).
• Exhibit personal qualities and behaviours which are a role model for others – being open to receive challenge and feedback; value diversity and difference; and to work as part of a team to get the job done.