IT Trainer

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate training professional to join our Learning and Development team on a Maternity Cover contract (max 12 months). 

In the role of a Trainer you will be utilising your skills in designing and delivering training programmes, which provide our police officers and supporting staff with high quality learning in the functionality of our internal police systems to enable them to be successful in their roles.

You will be assisting in the continued development of this training programme and be responsible for creating supporting materials and training documentation. Using your experience and knowledge, you will evaluate the effectiveness of the training programmes and be instrumental in ensuring that our teams are trained in an efficient and effective way.  Working with a wide range of people at various levels, you will assess the achievement level of knowledge, skills and competencies attained by employees and external customers, taking personal pride and ownership for successful delivery.

You will be a friendly, confident and pro-active person, who enjoys working as part of a team and is willing to work flexibly to deliver the desired outcomes. This position offers the successful candidate an outstanding opportunity to develop their career within an innovative and pioneering organisation and have the ability to make a difference.

Whether you are already delivering in a similar role with experience or you have aspirations to grow your existing career, we will create a bespoke training plan to give you the knowledge and support to be successful and deliver first class teaching to our learners.

In this role, your main responsibilities will be:

• Designing, creating, delivering and developing training courses and all associated materials to force employees and external customers
• Assisting with the testing of relevant software including enhancements and system developments
• Identifying faults and report these issues to system owner/external suppliers
• Evaluating the effectiveness of training programmes and training sessions     

Skills, experience and qualifications required:

• Experience of designing, delivering and developing a wide range of training courses to a variety of audiences
• Experience of measuring results, giving meaningful constructive feedback and producing action plans
• Experience of testing or using new software and systems
• Hold a training qualification or award at Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AEAT) or able to demonstrate relevant training experience and be prepared to work towards a qualification at this level

As this role is for a maternity cover, if you are an internal candidate your substantive post will be held open should you be successful in your application, to return to after the conclusion of your role as a Trainer.

To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 3 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.