Bosun - TS Royalist

Bosun, Training Ship Royalist

Location: Operating out from Gosport, UK

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £27,600 gross per annum

Closing Date: 31 October 2024

Are you an experienced sail training Bosun looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.

We are currently looking for an experienced Bosun to join our team.

About the role

The ideal applicant will have experience of square rig sailing, general seamanship and maintenance of sailing vessels.  The Bosun is primarily responsible for care and management of all upper deck equipment, spars, sails, yards, berthing wires, ropes, fenders, awnings, flags, fittings on deck and aloft.  Mainly employed on the foredeck, the Bosun must have the ability to lead and manage a team and to work effectively with young people. 

The successful applicant will be required to become a uniformed member of the Sea Cadet Corps and to undertake an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check.  The post holder will be responsible to the Commanding Officer TS Royalist, through the Sailing Master.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the routine maintenance, repair and serviceability of masts, yards, standing and running rigging, sails, berthing wires, ropes, fenders, awnings, flags, upper deck, superstructure, bulwarks, lockers, paintwork and the weather deck itself.
• Supervision of the foremast, foredeck operations when manoeuvring under sail.
• Instruction and supervision of those personnel proceeding aloft together with general seamanship instruction.
• Overseeing and direct the day-to-day work of the Forward Watch Officer.
• Ensuring that all harnesses are worn, maintained and used correctly.
• Supervision of the correct stowage of sails.
• Carry out general ship husbandry tasks.
• To act as the Ship’s Duty Officer as required.

Requirements

• Good communication skills.
• Ability to display sound leadership and ability to direct the ship’s staff and sail trainees.
• Able to interact with wide range of personnel from visiting VIPs to young cadet.
• Comfortable when working at height.
• Ability to instruct and educate young adults in sail training techniques
• ENG1 or ML5 medical certification, or an ability and willingness to obtain.
• Good seamanship and rigging knowledge and experience in ship’s maintenance and can provide evidence of these skills.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Sea Cadet training procedures.
• Experience in delivering rescue aloft techniques.
• Detailed knowledge in the operation of square rig vessels.
• Yachtmaster with commercial endorsement

For further details about his vacancy, please download our Recruitment Pack.

Benefits

• 104 days annual leave per annum.
• Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension.
• Private medical insurance.
• Pension (employer contribution up to 10%).
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling.
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
• National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise.

If you are interested in this Bosun vacancy, please apply now!

Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire. 

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check.