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PfP Thrive is Places for People's skills and learning academy, designed to develop talent within our organisation and across the housing and construction sectors. We provide high-quality training, apprenticeships, and future skills learning that address sector-wide skills shortages and help our people and partners thrive in a changing industry.
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Do you have a passion for safety and compliance? Are you skilled at sharing knowledge and helping others develop? We're looking for a Compliance & Health & Safety Tutor to design and deliver training that ensures our teams work safely, confidently, and in line with regulations.
In this role, you'll design, develop, and deliver engaging compliance and health & safety training for both internal and external staff, ensuring all courses meet regulatory standards and business needs. You'll cover essential topics such as manual handling, abrasive wheels, working at height, harness and lanyard inspection, conflict resolution, and water regulations including safe isolation and damp & mould management. Additionally, you'll help create a suite of “Intro to…” courses across various trades, leveraging your own qualifications and expertise to support workforce development.
The role will involve a mix of working from home 2 days a week focusing on administrative task and 3 days a week travelling to various sites to deliver training, we are flexible in this approach.
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The Essential Criteria for this role is listed below:
- A formal, recognised trade-based qualification e.g. electrician, plumber, landscaper, carpenter with at least 3 years' experience working in this role, ideally in a housing sector
- A strong track record of meeting/exceeding health and safety and compliance requirements associated with the role
- You will have a L3 Teaching and Assessing qualification – or previous experience of designing and delivering training to groups of learners and be willing to work towards these qualifications.
- You will need to be digitally savvy with strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint and Word to create engaging learning resources.
- You will have a full clean driving licence as there will be significant travel for this role
Desirable criteria:
- Ideally, you will have some supervisory and/or management experience as most awarding bodies will be looking for this in order to approve you to deliver their courses
- You will have excellent interpersonal skills, be able to build strong relationships with a variety of people of different levels, backgrounds and capabilities
- You'll have the ability to engage various groups of learners through your facilitation and training skills – you'll often have between 12 and 20 learners at a time.
Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
- Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- Excellent holiday package – 35 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave
- Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
- A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more
