Leadership Trainer

Division / Department - People Services

Status - Full Time

Contract Type - Permanent

Salary Grade Range - Surrey Police £36,955 - £43,745 / Sussex Police £39,813 - £43,920

Working Hours - 36.0 Hours per Week

Location - Sussex Police Headquarters, Lewes

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Sussex & Surrey Police are seeking one Leadership Trainer based at Sussex Police headquarters, Lewes but with responsibilities across both Forces. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering Leadership training interventions across both Forces, as well as project work, ensuring that our leaders are equipped with the skills they need to manage and lead their teams effectively.

This role will proactively work with the business and Learning and Professional Development (L&PD) teams to develop and promote a learning culture within both Forces. Specifically, the role will support all Officers, Staff, Supervisors and Line Managers to:

• Embrace informal on-the-job learning
• Encourage relationship learning such as coaching and mentoring
• Identify and fill capability gaps

The role will also work within L&PD to ensure that formal learning programmes are relevant, innovative and accessible.

To design, develop and deliver innovative and blended learning interventions to support a continuous professional development culture for police officers and staff across both Surrey and Sussex police at all levels.

To design, develop and deliver blended Leadership and Management interventions to support police officers and staff across both Surrey and Sussex police at all levels ensuring the material is impactful, up to date and relevant.

To work closely with command teams to identify performance gaps and develop learning programmes to support the closing of those gaps. This may require the development of formal blended learning such as classroom or online learning as well as social learning such as coaching and mentoring. The successful candidate will be expected to do their own independent research to ensure their training delivery content and methods are current and reflective of best practice.

To evaluate the success of those interventions particularly in relation to the impact on the behaviours and culture of the organisations.

To build strong relationships across both organisations particularly with key stakeholders, senior leadership teams, internal and external partners.

To proactively promote and implement the 70:20:10 model of learning and development within the workplace.

To support the governance team through activity such as quality assurance of trainers and training delivery as well as training products.

To deliver action learning sets/team facilitation/coaching and mentoring and other appropriate learning interventions to support and develop officers and staff.

To maintain continuous professional development and occupational competence ensuring a high level of knowledge and understanding of police issues, policies and subject matter expertise.

Undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and character of work as may be reasonably required, including specific duties of a similar or lesser graded post.

Skills & Experience

• Minimum Level 3 or 4 or equivalent qualification in Training and Development or associated field (or working towards).
• Minimum 3-4 years of Leadership Training experience
• Excellent working knowledge of leadership and development best practice both in theory and practical application.
• Advanced knowledge of training and delivery methods.
• The ability to present information effectively to colleagues and officers/staff of all ranks and grades.
• A high degree of emotional intelligence and the ability to give and receive honest and well-evidenced feedback.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• A proactive approach to the role and determination to ‘do the right thing’ in order to deliver the required outcomes.
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office applications; IT literate.
• Must have capacity/capability to travel across Surrey and Sussex delivering solutions across a wide geographical area.
• Relevant experience of management including motivating and leading teams, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Trainers appointed to this role will proactively work alongside L&PD SMT to promote organisational learning and a culture of self-directed professional development.
• A thorough understanding of the application of Competency Value Framework and other College of Policing Leadership tools/programmes.
• The postholder will have a high level of discretion to take action and make decisions within the training environment.
• They will be expected to work with minimal supervision and have a high degree of autonomy in the classroom.

Desirable:

• Psychometric tools practitioner (e.g. MBTI/Insights or similar)
• 360-degree feedback practitioner.
• Recent management/leadership experience.

Why Work With Us?

Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part-time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working.

We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits:

• Career progression
• Contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Discounts for everyday spend
• On-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
• Generous and supportive parental leave
• Financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
• Discounted contributory healthcare scheme

Diversity Statement

We are only as good as our people. It’s important that our officers and staff can be themselves in the workplace and we know that as an organisation we’ll grow from the variety of thinking, approach, and the skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service.

We strive to ensure how we deliver our services, provide information and how we recruit is open and accessible to all. We have multiple staff support groups who help to improve our understanding of minority issues and ensure they are reflected in our work.

We are committed to being an anti-racist police service. We promise to challenge injustice, ensure fairness and to uphold anti-racist principles in both our organisation and our communities.

We value the differences that people bring from all backgrounds and communities. Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, social status, or religious belief, we would love to hear from you.