Chief Instructor - Raleigh

Chief Instructor - Raleigh

Location: SCTC Raleigh, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2PD

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Salary: £29,000 gross per annum

Closing Date: 11 October 2024

Are you a Chief Instructor looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for a Chief Instructor to join our team.

About the role

 The Chief Instructor (CI) role is a full-time position, and they are a member of the Training Centre staff reporting to the Centre Manager. Conducting training both on land and on the water to our Volunteers and Cadets. Regular evening and weekend working is the norm and the role will require frequent travel to work across other MSSC, Sea Cadet Corps (SCC) (and other organisation’s facilities), and also to MSSC National Support Centre (NSC) in London.

Responsibilities

·         To organise and deliver high quality face to face training for cadets (and volunteers)

·         Supervising delivery of courses by others and ensuring that we adhere to National Governing Body standards and any other existing regulations are adhered to

·         Assist the Centre Manager to ensure that all activities at the facility are conducted in a safe manner, and that all sessional instructors or volunteers are appropriately briefed, qualified and trained;

·         To assist the Centre Manager with the day to day operations for centre including giving staff briefs, co-ordinating equipment issue and return and the safe, effective and punctual delivery of activities.

·         To manage use, allocation and maintenance of equipment and resources where appropriate;

·         To assist the Manager in administrative duties including: Issuing of certificates for accredited Courses; Updating “Westminster” records in relation to cadet qualifications and achievements; coordinating facility bookings and monitoring usage.

·         Conduct general maintenance of the facilities;  

·         To ensure all equipment and resources are used correctly. Ensuring safety and safeguarding of all trainees, providing supervision, and safety facilities as required.

Requirements

·       RYA Senior Dinghy Instructor

·       RYA Powerboat Instructor

·       Experienced and confident teaching in a classroom based environment.

·       Ability to plan, organise and supervise delivery of training

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack. If you are interested in this role, please apply now!

Benefits

• 51 days annual leave per annum
• Hybrid working for many roles
• Volunteering Leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• 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.

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 pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.