Health & Safety Instructor in Manchester

Applicants must already have the unrestricted right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide visa support for this role.

Salary and Benefits Package:

• £34,000.00 - £38,000.00 per annum
• Holiday entitlement of 33 days (including mandatory days off to cover Christmas and New Year)
• HSF Health Plan and Perkbox
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Pension contributions 5% (Employee) & 3% (Employer)

This role is contracted at 40 hours per week. The standard working pattern will be 7.30am to 4.00pm or 8.00am to 4.30pm, Monday to Friday.

Role Purpose: The Health and Safety Instructor is responsible for designing, preparing, and delivering engaging health and safety training that develops learner competence, supports compliance, and promotes safe working practices across practical and classroom-based environments.

Scope:

• Delivery of accredited and non-accredited health and safety training programmes.
• Practical and theory-based instruction in classroom, workshop, and site-simulated environments.
• Maintenance of training quality, learner records, course materials, and awarding-body requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Training Delivery & Learner Engagement: Plan, prepare, and deliver health and safety training programmes in line with course specifications and learner needs. Deliver both theory-based and practical instruction using clear communication, learner engagement techniques, and inclusive teaching methods. Adapt training delivery to suit different learning styles, experience levels, and operational contexts. Facilitate learner participation, answer questions confidently, and provide constructive feedback to support competence and confidence. Assess learner understanding through observation, questioning, practical activities, and formal assessment methods where required.
• Course Preparation & Quality Assurance: Prepare lesson plans, training resources, presentations, and practical exercises to meet course outcomes. Ensure training materials remain current, accurate, and aligned with legislation, standards, and awarding-body requirements. Maintain course documentation, learner records, attendance, and assessment evidence to the required standard. Support internal quality assurance activities, standardisation, and continuous improvement of course delivery.
• Professional Practice & Resource Management: Maintain training equipment, PPE, demonstration resources, and practical learning areas in a safe and serviceable condition. Manage stocks of training consumables and ensure materials are available for scheduled courses. Maintain own professional competence through continuing professional development, refresher training, and industry updates. Represent the organisation professionally with learners, clients, awarding bodies, and internal stakeholders.
• Compliance, Accreditation & Safety: Deliver training in full compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements, maintaining safe control of classroom and practical activities. Hold and maintain in-date trainer approvals, licences, and scheme-specific accreditations relevant to the courses delivered. Carry out risk assessments and pre-use checks for training activities, equipment, and environments. Ensure all training delivery and assessment activity meets internal standards, client expectations, and awarding-body requirements.

The Person: At 3t our values of Innovation, Collaboration and Excellence are at the heart of what we do and reflect what is important to 3t, how we operate and fulfil our vision. We are looking for future colleagues who believe in the power of working together by being open and respectful, think creatively and dare to be different to find solutions and are dedicated, driven and passionate to strive for excellence.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable training delivery capability and subject-matter expertise aligned to health and safety training course requirements.
• Strong communication skills, learner engagement capability, and the ability to adapt delivery to different learning styles.
• Ability to deliver both practical and theory-based health and safety instruction effectively.
• Evidence of competence such as a current CV, relevant course materials or training portfolio, and references or endorsements.
• Level 3 Award in Education and Training (or equivalent training qualification).
• Health and Safety qualification at a minimum of IOSH Managing Safely.
• Emergency First Aid at Work and commitment to maintaining all required training approvals and certifications in date.

Desirable Criteria:

• Ladder Association training requirements met, including in-date Ladder User and Ladder Inspector certificates, completion of the two-day Instructors’ Course, and mentored training sessions.
• PASMA instructor route completed, including Mobile Access Towers for Users, Low Level Access, the three-day Instructor route, and mentored full-course sessions.
• IPAF instructor requirements met, including minimum two years’ operator experience, in-date Operator and Demonstrator Licences (3a and 3b), IPAF MEWPs for Managers, Harness Appreciation, IPAF Site Survey, completion of the five-day Instructors’ Course, and mentored delivery sessions; plus any current awarding-body or scheme specific approvals relevant to specialist accredited courses.

In line with our commitment to safeguarding, any offer of employment for this instructor role is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

The Company: At 3t, we are passionate about up-skilling and empowering workforces to ensure a prosperous future where all workers, organisations and our industries thrive. 3t is the combination of world-leading companies that are together transforming training in the energy, and wider safety-critical sectors, combining cutting-edge immersive technology with award-winning high-impact workforce training. We stand as a global training powerhouse operating across 60 countries worldwide. Together, we are training the workforce of the future. 3t Training Services is the UK’s largest and leading provider of training for the oil and gas, wind, and power industries, and a major player globally, whilst also making a significant impact on the wider and utilities sectors including gas, electric, and water.