Civilian Dog Intructor - Guildford, United Kingdom - Surrey Police & Sussex Police Collaboration

Surrey Police & Sussex Police Collaboration

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Guildford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

This role is within a unit where Surrey Police and Sussex Police work in collaboration, whilst continuing to be two separate legal entities/employers with different terms and conditions.

Both Surrey Police staff and Sussex Police staff are employed in this unit on their own force terms and conditions.

Division / Department - Regional Collaboration
Status - Full Time
Contract Type - Permanent
Grade - Surrey Police Grade G / Sussex Police Grade 10
Salary Grade Range - Surrey Police £30,486 - £36,026 / Sussex Police £30,375 - £33,348

The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.

The Role

Through classroom lectures, presentations and hands on dog training your role will be training and assessing the suitability of both Police Dogs and Handlers whilst training personnel in all aspects of explosive dog handling to meet National Standards.

Working alongside internal and external agencies you will be required to instruct students in a wide spectrum of Police issues including continuation training and on occasions initial and refresher explosive search training.

It is essential the post holder holds the following instructor certificate:
ACPO/NPCC Explosive Search Dog Instructors Certificate.

Key Responsibilities

Instruct students (police and other organisations) attending continuation training and both initial and refresher dog courses in Explosive detection, including classroom lectures and presentations, and 'hands on' dog training within the dogs expected work environment.
Teach students the recognised search systems currently employed by all UK police dog sections. To lecture on current trends used by terrorists or the criminal fraternity, and to keep students abreast of the changes in demands to meet standards for NPCC dog instruction.
Train and assess the suitability of both dogs and handlers and pass and fail as necessary. This is to include visiting other sites, outside of the Dog School, to carry out these assessments.
Liaise with all agencies at present engaged within the detection of explosive in order to maintain an up to date assessment of current trends.
Maintain a register of all venues of use by course, students, and dogs, and where necessary increase the number in order to ensure the variety and scope of dog training.
Prepare full written reports on students attending the dog school.
Take into his/her home address dogs purchased or offered as potential police dogs in order to assess their viability for the task. If suitable to care and train the dog in order to hand it over to a suitable student.
Keep abreast of current legislation appertaining to the carriage, keeping and use of substances used in dog training.
Be responsible for the care of substances in his/her charge whilst training, and maintain the necessary registers of such substances.
To carry out any other tasks relating to the role of Police Dog Instructor, as requested by the Dog School Senior Instructor or Dog Section Inspector/Dog School Manager.

Skills & Experience

It is essential that the post holder has:

The ACPO / NPCC Explosive Search Dog Instructor course certificate and has experience in the training and deployment of specialist search dogs.
A flexible approach, and be prepared to work long and unsociable hours if required.
Ability to work effectively as a team member and make positive contributions to activities within a team environment.
An enquiring mind and a high level of interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
The ability to work to a high professional standard with little or no immediate supervision.
The ability to operate computer based systems and/or the willingness to undertake training to become proficient in Surrey Police systems.
To have respect for race and diversity by having an awareness of equality and diversity issues in the working environment
Hold a clean full UK driving license and be able to pass a Police authorisation course to drive the class of vehicles used by the Dog School
The ACPO / NPCC Explosive Search Dog Certificate, Police Dog Instructor course Certificate and Ideally a drug search Certificate.

Further Information

Please note that the selection process will consist of a paper selection followed by a formal interview with the Senior Dog Instructor and the Operational Dog Inspector/Dog School Manager Operations Command.

Additional Information

Surrey Police and Sussex Police work together in collaboration for this role, however they remain two different employers, with differing pay scales, allowances and terms and conditions including hours of employment.

This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recr