Job Title: Response Driver Trainer
Location: Ruislip, West London or Beckton, East London
Compensation: £43, + £5k allowance on completion of NFCC Qualification + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Training those who protect London every day
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Response Driver Trainer at either our Ruislip or Beckton sites.
The role
As a Response Driver Trainer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will combine classroom instruction with practical, on road assessment, providing clear feedback, professional judgement and structured development plans. Alongside developing others, this role offers continued personal growth through nationally recognised qualifications and the opportunity to shape best practice within emergency services training.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
1. Deliver classroom based and practical emergency response driving training
2. Observe and assessing learner driving performance under emergency conditions
3. Provide constructive feedback and agreeing appropriate improvement plans
4. Ensure training is delivered safely, in line with risk assessments and policies
5. Maintain accurate training, assessment and compliance records
The role is full time, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and is based onsite at either Ruislip or Beckton, with regular travel to other London Fire Brigade sites across London.
Essential experience of the Response Driver Trainer:
6. Experience as an emergency response driver within UK Police, Fire or Ambulance Services
7. Strong working knowledge of Roadcraft principles and emergency response driving
8. Experience assessing driving competence in operational or training environments
9. Ability to communicate clearly, calmly and confidently in high pressure situations
10. Confidence managing learner welfare, safety and performance concerns
Qualifications for the Response Driver Trainer:
11. DVSA Approved Driving Instructor qualification, Grade A or B
12. DVSA Category C Large Goods Vehicle licence, held for a significant number of years
13. Assessor qualification, or willingness to work towards one
14. Completion of National Fire Chiefs Council Emergency Response Driving portfolio is desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at .
What we offer
15. Generous holiday allowance
16. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
17. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
22. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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