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Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
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Brief Description
To lead the Professional Development team to deliver a professionalised service to Route Operations in aspects such as training, managing competence and Operations capability. Set the direction and professional principles and standards for Operations, whilst maintaining productive relationships with training and development functions nationally and within other routes and regions.
About the role (External)
1. The professional development team assists the LOMs gathering evidence for signaller MOM competency, and identify any areas for development in their role.
2. The PDS runs development days and simulation days for the signallers, creating around 5-10 hours of admin work per week, uploading to EDS the platform where we record signaller and MOM competence.
3. The role requires you to create and deliver Professional development days following the National Operating Standard, with 6 development cycles over a 3-year period, capturing approximately 300 signallers' competency over that time.
4. We also run 2 simulation days over the 3-year cycle for each signaller, requiring the PDS to create and develop these days, simulating faults, failures, and emergency situations that a signaller may have to deal with in their role.
5. Continued development of these days and adapting them to rule book changes or local special instructions, regularly meeting with the Wessex Ops managers to create localised training.
6. Creating a library of simulation templates to assist the LOMs with reactive development training as part of a support plan after a signaller has an irregularity.
7. In the future, we hope to offer this to the Mobile Operation Managers and Electrical Control Room Operators.
8. You will also be required to attend Initial Signaller Training (IST), a 10-week residential course to gain signaller competency, which is a requirement before starting in the role.
9. Attendance at Train the Trainer days and other courses for your own continual development is also required.
Job Skills, Experience and Qualifications
1. Expertise and experience of successfully designing and delivering training.
2. Ability to lead, manage and develop people.
3. Ability to provide technical leadership.
4. Excellent planning and prioritisation skills.
5. Excellent knowledge of training methodology.
6. Good knowledge of assessment processes.
7. Excellent communication skills with proven ability to present information effectively and appropriately (written and verbal).
8. Ability to gain relevant training qualification(s).
9. Experience of developing training courses and development programmes.
Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of 16.01.2023. All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by 16.01.2023 will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on the Sentinel database and a 5-year suspension from applying for a safety-critical role will be enforced.
Network Rail adheres to pre-employment Baseline Personal Security Standard (BPSS), which is a government standard for pre-employment vetting. BPSS government standard pre-employment vetting requires Network Rail to screen a potential employee’s unspent criminal convictions and undertake 3-year career checks. Employment at Network Rail is subject to employees meeting the BPSS government standard pre-employment vetting.
Network Rail welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or other irrelevant factor. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do; safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should demonstrate their personal commitment to safety in their application.
Network Rail can offer you a rewarding career with competitive pay and excellent benefits including a choice of contributory pension schemes, a generous annual leave package, a bonus scheme, and an annual subsidy on season tickets.
Network Rail positively embraces flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life.
Closing date: 19th February 2025; late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.
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