LRF Training, Exercising and Organisational Learning Officer
| Posting date: | 18 December 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2025 |
| Location: | Leicestershire, LE19 1YG |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4345 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: No1 Romulus Court, Meridian East, Meridian Business Park, Leicester LE19 1YG
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £34,350 - £37,950 (pro rata £17,175.00 - £18,975.00)
Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed term for 2-years
Closing Date: 8th January 2025
Interview Date(s): 22nd 23rd January 2025
Do you have a passion for continual improvement and enjoy working with people to develop meaningful training and events?
About the Role
The Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland Local Resilience Forum (LRF) is committed to ensuring the safety, security, and wellbeing of its communities in the face of a range of potential risks and challenges. This role will require the post holder to work closely with stakeholders from across the public sector as well as engaging with voluntary and community groups.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced professional to support our LRF’s training and exercising programme, ensuring responders across the emergency service, local authorities, health services and others are prepared to respond to emergency situations.
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining training and exercising packages that are delivered to responders across the strategic, tactical and operational levels.
You will take ownership of the LRF’s lessons management cycle, implementing processes and procedures to ensure that lessons identified become lessons learnt. Supporting the LRF and Resilience Partnership Manager you will provide assurances to senior leaders that as a forum we are continually learning from local, regional and national incidents.
Please note that this is a part-time role on a fixed term contract.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the LRF Training and Exercising Group Chair in designing and delivering a multi-agency training and exercising programme
- Develop and monitor the LRF Recommendations Tracker, seeking tangible multiagency evidence of recommendation implementation and system change, and escalating any incomplete recommendations, risks, and gaps
- Create and coordinate reports to inform internal and external stakeholders
- Develop and maintain an effective LRF debriefing process
- Design, develop, deliver and review multi-agency training ensuring alignment to national occupational standards and best practice
- Support the delivery of multi-agency exercises
- Support the delivery of local JESIP Commanders Training
- Support the coordination and response to / recovery from multiagency major incidents/emergencies
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
Experience of working in emergency planning / crisis management / emergency incident response / business continuity or
- Aware of the role and responsibilities of the Local Resilience Forum and partner organisations
- Substantial experience of partnership working in public, private & voluntary sectors to a high level
- Proven experience of working in an accurate and efficient manner under pressure
- Proven ability and demonstration to embed learning
- Experience of designing and delivering training programmes
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Mark Warden, LRF and Resilience Partnership Manager
Telephone: 0778 6198 284
Email: mark.warden@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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