ICT Trainer

ICT Trainer
Job reference: VAC000362
Base: Brigade Headquarters, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 - Covering Buckinghamshire
Salary: Scale I: £39,655- £40,739 Per Annum
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
Contract: Temporary Contract - 2 Year Fixed-Term
Job category/type: Support Services
Package: Local Government Pension Scheme Good Annual Leave Entitlement Employee Benefits Employee Assistance Programme Occupational Health Onsite Gym Facilities

This Fire Service is dedicated to empowering their team with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in the digital age. They are seeking a passionate and experienced ICT Trainer to join their team and help them deliver top-notch training programs that enhance their employees' technical capabilities.

About the Employer
This Fire & Rescue Service serves a population of more than 800,000 in the Southeast of England. Around 400 Firefighters operate from 19 Fire Stations from the outskirts of London to the South Midlands. They employ around 100 specialist support staff, from ICT to Fire Prevention. They are a diverse, welcoming community - will you join them?

This Service is only as good as its people. When employees are engaged and supported, the Service thrives. This why they support flexible and hybrid working.

About the Role
The ICT Trainer will lead and manage identifying, designing, delivering, assuring, and evaluating Microsoft Office applications training programmes across the Service, ensuring that our people have the right technology skills to fulfil their potential.

You will be responsible for:
Delivering Microsoft Office applications training to individuals and large groups of staff, using a variety of appropriate styles and methods
Producing and maintaining a variety of training materials, both physical and digital, for support of Microsoft systems
Presenting new ways of working to learners to alter self-perception and working practices, and develop the culture change required for this Service to realise the benefits from investment in ICT

About You
You will be:

• A committed team player, with the ability to communicate and work effectively within a team environment
• Able to understand and apply relevant information to make appropriate decisions, which reflect key priorities and requirements
• Have a proactive approach to addressing identified training issues, and retraining where necessary
• Able to use initiative and work flexibly without direct supervision
• Able to travel throughout Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes to deliver training across this service's sites

Experience & Qualifications Required
Essential Requirements
Qualifications & Training:

• Educated to HNC/HND or Level 4/5 in an ICT discipline, or relevant ICT experience
• Training qualification, or relevant experience in developing and delivering ICT training to staff
• English Language GCSE Grade 4 or above (or equivalent)
• Advanced ICT skill sets - e.g. Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS), or working towards

Experience:

• Extensive experience with Microsoft Office Applications including O365
• Working knowledge of current Microsoft technologies
• Experience in the design and delivery of ICT training to staff

Anything else you need to know

• You will be required to travel round various sites, so the ability to travel is essential.

Application closing date: 2nd February 2025

Interested?

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Our client is an equal opportunity employer. Applications from people of any colour, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or disability are welcome. If there are any adaptions or adjustments, this service can make to help you in your application, or with their recruitment process, this can be discussed.

Everyone who works with this service is required to have a DBS check.

Abatement and Protected Pension

If you are in receipt of a Firefighter's pension, before taking up employment, you are required to notify this service's Human Resources as Abatement Rules may apply.

No agencies please.