Operational Training Support Officer

About the Team

The Training and Development Team at Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service (WFRS) plays a vital role in ensuring operational staff are fully equipped with the skills, knowledge and confidence needed to keep our communities safe. The team delivers high-quality training across a range of specialist areas, working collaboratively with internal colleagues and external partners to maintain excellent standards and realistic training environments.

As an Operational Training Support Officer, you will play a key role in supporting the delivery of operational training across WFRS. This is a varied and hands-on role where you’ll provide practical, logistical and administrative support to ensure training activities run efficiently and effectively.

You will help prepare and maintain training facilities, equipment and resources, supporting safe and realistic training delivery, including working with specialist facilities such as the hot fire simulator. The role also involves assisting with the creation of training materials, maintaining accurate records, coordinating equipment maintenance and supporting joint training exercises with partner agencies.

This role is based at our Training and Development Centres, with travel across different locations and the ability to work evenings and weekends where required to support service needs.

Our Training and Development Centres are located in Kingsbury, Rugby and Stratford upon Avon.

• Strong literacy, numeracy and basic IT skills
• Good knowledge of fire service equipment, appliances and procedures
• Experience of maintaining records and working with databases
• A full driving licence, including LGV Category C and willingness to travel
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends when required
• Manual handling training (or willingness to obtain)

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision. We provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants.

The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Successful applicants will be subject to a range of pre-engagement checks, including a relevant Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS). In accordance with the DBS code of practice and our own policy, should an individual have a declared criminal offence an individual assessment will be completed.

Warwickshire County Council adheres to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Warwickshire County Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all employees and is keen to address areas of under representation in its workforce.