Fire Trainer
Job Type Permanent Curriculum / Service Area Offshore Campus / Location Fleetwood Nautical Hours per week 37 Part-Year? No Post scale Trainer Post Scale Range (FTE) £30, - £35, Closing Date 24/08/ Documents
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The Role:
The Lancashire Industrial Fire Training Centre (LIFT), part of the Fleetwood Nautical Campus at Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC), is looking for a motivated and experienced Fire Trainer to join our Offshore Team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver specialist fire training for Maritime, Oil & Gas, Industrial, and Nuclear sectors while shaping the next generation of industry-ready professionals.
Your Responsibilities Will Include:
As a Trainer - Fire, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, practical, and theoretical fire training courses. Your key responsibilities include:
2. Delivering engaging fire safety and firefighting training, including Breathing Apparatus (BA) training, across commercial and offshore programmes.
3. Developing and maintaining course materials, ensuring they meet current industry standards and regulations.
4. Conducting assessments and reviews, providing constructive feedback, and supporting learners to achieve outstanding outcomes.
5. Collaborating with colleagues to ensure effective learning pathways, high retention rates, and quality improvement.
6. Supporting course development, evaluation, and quality assurance activities to continually enhance training provision.
What We’re Looking For:
7. Extensive fire service or equivalent experience in BA training, firefighting techniques, and classroom instruction.
8. A teaching and assessor qualification (or willingness to achieve this within 24 months of appointment).
Why Join Us?
At B&FC, you’ll be part of a progressive and supportive team committed to excellence in technical training. Working at LIFT offers the opportunity to deliver specialist fire training in a world-class maritime training environment while developing your own professional expertise.
Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Early!
We may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If this opportunity excites you, submit your application today!
Rewards and Benefits
Blackpool and The Fylde College is proud to be Great Place To Work® Certified™
9. Enhanced leave allowance of 43 days (full-time equivalent), inclusive of bank holidays
10. Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
11. Competitive pension scheme:
12. Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) - 28.68% employer contribution
13. Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) - 15.4% employer contribution
14. Extensive professional development opportunities for all, with B&FC choosing to invest circa. £1.8m annually in colleague development and professional qualifications
15. Agile working opportunities
16. Enhanced Family friendly policies
17. Extensive wellbeing provision including, but not limited to:
18. Access to funded Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) available 24/7, days a year
19. Occupational Health
20. FREE Flu Vouchers for those not entitled through the NHS
21. FREE eye tests
22. Dedicated Wellbeing Hub available to all colleagues containing rich and varied content with resources relating to emotional, physical, financial and social wellbeing
23. FREE healthy breakfast
24. Sports facilities including fully equipped gym and discounted memberships
25. Health and beauty salon
26. Trim Trails on Campus (guided routes for walks)
27. Onsite food outlets and Starbucks at subsidised rates
28. FREE car parking
29. Car lease scheme
30. Cycle to work scheme
31. Onsite kids ‘Sports Camp’ 8am – 5pm during selected half-term breaks
B&FC is committed to the promotion of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all resourcing practices. Please email should a specific adjustment be required to support in the application and selection process
B&FC is dedicated to safeguarding and the promotion of the welfare of all learners, and expects all colleagues to share in this commitment. As such, employment at B&FC is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service. For further information on DBS, please click The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order ( and ) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’.