Security Training Department Instructor

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The Security Training Department provides security training for all staff employed in High Secure Services. This training covers induction for new staff through to specialist training for existing staff. The department also provides in house training for security staff and outreach/external courses for Trust wide initiatives and other NHS Trusts.
The role of the training department training instructor is to deliver training that is of a high quality. This training will be held within the department and at ward / department level within the secure site with a requirement to deliver training to external agencies when required. They will assist the training department manager to plan and co-ordinate training, and at times act up to the Training Managers role when that person is not present. All training is carried-out in accordance with the Knowledge and Skills Framework under Agenda for Change, and the Local Clinical Security Framework.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. To assist with planning and co-ordinating training packages with reference to the Knowledge and Skills Framework under Agenda for Change, and Local Clinical Security Framework.
2. To assist in co-ordinating training strategy for high secure services that meet the training needs of the staff and area concerned.
3. Adapt and develop training packages and or dates dependent upon need, sometimes at short notice, including specialist training unique to High Secure Services. Most of this training will be performed at ward / department level.
4. Assist in the effective operation of the Training Department and act up in the absence of the training manager.
5. To assist with security department performance audits and / or security incidents, when required.
6. Provide regular reports both oral and written specific to their role to managers regarding training for internal and external audit, queries and incident investigation.
7. Ensure the accurate recording and maintenance of staff training records.
8. Adapt training as required for staff and areas when required.
9. Ensure that health and safety guidelines are followed when performing training for staff.
10. Take responsibility for own development through personal development programme process.
11. Plan and organise training both in-house and externally to identified staff or areas.
12. Assist with developing and maintaining links with outside agencies and other high secure hospitals in relation to training or security equipment development.
13. To ensure that all work within the training department and on wards / departments is in accordance with the Trusts equality and diversity strategy and the Local Clinical Security Framework.
14. Must have significant demonstrable experience in a high secure setting and understand the procedures and protocols required to maintain current security levels.
15. Liaise with on site maintenance staff with regard to training relevant to their role.
16. Liaise with Control and Communications Centre Supervisors and managers to carryout in house training of all staff employed in that area, and maintain training records.
17. Maintain written and electronic records of all training carried-out within the Local Clinical Security Framework and in house training.
18. To keep abreast of developments in training and security and to adapt training when required.
19. To assist with the development and maintenance of security procedures which promote safe and secure practice.
20. Provide reports to the training department manager when required in relation to staff training.
21. To collate the departments Monthly Search Statistics and record and disseminate accordingly whilst maintaining a record for Prison Service Audit.
22. To collate the departments Programmed Search Statistics’ and record and disseminate the information accordingly whilst maintaining a record for Prison Service Audit.
23. Management of confidential information

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