Training Officer - Devon, United Kingdom - First Light UK

First Light UK

Verified Company

Devon, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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First Light is a charity supporting people in Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire and across England and Wales who have been affected by domestic abuse and sexual violence.

We are independent of statutory agencies, including the Police, and every year we help thousands of adults and children in England and Wales to lead safer lives, free from violence and abuse.
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The Training Officer is an exciting new role help develop First Light's training programme.

As a Training Officer for First Light, you will help shape the Educate and Prevent training programme, with responsibility for developing, delivering, and continuing a range of courses.

Supported by the Head of Communications and Income Generation, you will work to ensure that First Light's training programmes are in line with our strategic priorities and are of the highest quality, including course development, delivery and evaluation.

Added benefits of being a First Light employee:

A comprehensive induction and training programme, with a hybrid working policy for a better work/life balance.
Annual Pay Review and a commitment to always pay at least the Real Living Wage to all our staff.
Access to external supervision to discuss personal or emotional responses to traumatic cases, to ensure emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Health and wellbeing resources including our staff Wellbeing Group, Staff Consultation Committee and active participation in our employee engagement platform.
Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which includes a 24/7 telephone helpline offering medical, emotional and financial support.
Employer contribution pension scheme.

Key Responsibilities:

To develop and deliver training programmes focused on providing an effective response and a range of solutions to victims of domestic abuse and/or sexual violence and their families, paying particular attention to the needs of people who might otherwise be hidden from services and exploring opportunities for the development of new training and cultural change offers to meet emerging needs.
Support on shaping First Light's training strategy and contribute to the operating plan and work alongside other teams to create an influencing strategy designed to develop our accredited training programmes for DA professionals. To work with the Fundraising Team to explore scope for wider partnerships and funding
To ensure the development of resources/documentation to support the successful delivery of, online or virtual training, by First Light team members, ensuring our learners have a brilliant experience of First Light training from beginning to end.
To ensure robust evaluation systems are in place and results are used to inform future programmed development.
To work with the Development team to market and promote our courses to a wide range of audiences including statutory organisations and corporate employers so that course places are filled and/or commissioners book courses/programmes, in line with our income targets.
Contribute to training income and budgets related to the courses and programmes, ensuring expenditure on courses is in line with an agreed budget for activities and prepare monthly progress reports.
To liaise with partners, commissioners, and others in relation to our training and development programme, including contributing to proposals and bids for training courses and to oversee implementation and mobilisation of programmes to ensure they achieve maximum impact

Essential Requirements: