Immigration Enforcement - Public & Personal Safety Training Officer
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £34,350 to £41,035 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National pay locations: £34350 - £36755. London (Croydon) pay location: £38350 - £41035. Additional allowances of 23.19% is applicable on this role (see Further Information for more details). |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 April 2024 |
| Location: | Stoke-on-Trent |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 348454/13 |
Summary
There is an active and passionate network of leaders who are dedicated to increasing the employee voice and engagement within the organisation, ensuring all views are heard and that our work continues to learn from the Windrush review.
Reward and recognition programmes give our people the opportunity to recognise and reward their peers for the great things they do every day. All of this contributes to our mission to be a great place to work.
The Operational Capabilities Command (OCC) is a directorate within Enforcement, Compliance & Crime (ECC). Our mission is to ensure that operational colleagues have the skills, capabilities, tools and infrastructure which are modern, environmentally sustainable, fit for purpose and allows staff to maximise their operational effectiveness.
Our aim is to work across people and strategic workforce planning, change, digital, performance, engagement, risk, law enforcement engagement and our vulnerability and fair treatment teams collaboratively as one team. We will act as agents of change, to provide the innovation, service and thought leadership that is needed so that Enforcement, Compliance & Crime (ECC) runs well as a command now and transforms further to meet the demands and opportunities of the future.
Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST) sits within the Immigration Enforcement Training and Skills Unit (TASU). The unit oversees several critical areas of training delivery, including Public & Personal Safety Training, Method of Entry, Emergency Life Support Skills, and Aviation Custodial Training.
This post is part of a significant expansion of the team’s capability. On occasion you may be asked to cover other training requirements for front line enforcement.
TASU have a strong working relationship with the College of Policing and other law enforcement partners as well as strong stakeholder relationships across Immigration Enforcement and wider Borders and Enforcement partners.
The roles and responsibilities of Public & Personal Safety Training Chief Immigration Officers, include but are not limited to, delivering on training courses, management of courses for the business, liaising with stakeholders, assessing and assuring developing trainers, designing training programs and maintaining delivery of high-quality training for the business.
Immigration Enforcement TASU is a national unit, and as such multi-day overnight travel and periods away from home in a wide variety of locations is frequently required.
The Organisation, its Vision, Purpose and Values.
Immigration Enforcement (IE) is the operational arm of the Home Office responsible for reducing the size of the illegal population and the harm it causes. Its key missions are to:
- Prevent illegal immigration through greater compliance with immigration laws.
- Maximise returns of immigration offenders and Foreign National Offenders from the UK.
- Tackle the threats associated with immigration offending.
We work with law enforcement and cross-government partners to tackle serious and organised immigration crime with a focus on bringing to justice those who exploit the vulnerable, for example cases of modern slavery and human trafficking.
The aim of the Training and Skills Unit is to provide agile support to IE priorities, enabling staff to reach their potential through tailored career pathways with innovative learning and development.
There are several primary work areas within PPST, which you will be asked to support. These include:
- Delivering on initial arrest course – these are for new recruits into Immigration Enforcement, who undertake a 2-week Arrest Training Course to become operational Officers.
- Assisting the delivery of Method of Entry training.
- Assisting the delivery of Aviation Custodial Training.
- Searching Premises and Vehicle training.
- First Aid training.
- Delivering arrest and PPST refresher program – these are for Officers within the business who require to undertake refresher training each year.
- Completion of mandatory annual CPD and quality assurance responsibilities.