Leadership Academy Team Leader

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to take on the pivotal role of our Leadership Academy Team Leader within our innovative and forward-thinking Learning Department.

This is a Part Time Temporary position working 18.5 per week covering Parental Leave for 12 months.

At Avon and Somerset, we aim to deliver outstanding leadership learning to our officers and staff as we understand it has a powerful effect on the performance and culture of our organisation. We are enhancing our new first line leaders programme, delivering impactful and timely learning, we have ambitious plans so this is an exciting time to join us and support our continued growth.

Your role will be to manage and support the Leadership Academy Leadership Trainers in their everyday roles and work collaboratively with other departments to ensure skills compliance, identifying gaps or opportunities within training.

You will be a part of a diversely skilled management team, who look after differing training portfolios including Investigative Training, Core Policing Skills, Learning Technology and ICT and Specialist Skills, Operational Training and Driver Training.

If you have enthusiasm, curiosity and are passionate about leadership learning with experience of supervising leadership teams we would like to hear from you.

In this role your main responsibilities will be:

• To ensure the delivery of quality and timely training and assessment, through engagement in the commissioning process to develop new or revised training events.
• Supervise the trainers/assessors in their area of responsibility, managing their performance and continued professional development for their role.
• Work with our stakeholders to identify training opportunities through the respective channels.
• Ensure all resources for training in their area of responsibility, including trainers, classrooms & learners are appropriately coordinated.
• Plan and manage relevant Training events.
• Review and maintain evidence of assessment in line with requisite compliance and quality assurance guidelines.
• To promote the services provided by L&D and our learning partners.
• To assist your Line Manager in developing relationships with partners/stakeholders, including Universities and Colleges, providing training and assessment support to Apprenticeship Programmes on behalf of the organisation.
• To work with your line manager to ensure Apprenticeship recruitment targets are in line with Home Office requirements.
• To work flexibly across the force area to provide supervision, training and assessor support as required.

Skills and Experience required:

• The applicant must hold a College of Policing Training Essentials Programme (TEP) or a Level 4 Certificate in Education & Training.
• Able to demonstrate strong leadership skills including people development & team building
• Experienced in organising & planning training events.
• Supervisory experience is essential, together with excellent communication and presentation skills.
• An understanding of apprenticeship programmes and assessment requirements would be desirable.

To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 3 year checkable history in the UK ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.

Why Avon and Somerset Police?

We want everyone that joins us to feel comfortable to be who they are in our organisation, we will want you to live and breathe our values including that of inclusivity. Our colleagues are proud to be the difference and this message is key in our recruitment values too.

We aim to provide an environment which encourages our employees. We invest in our people and we strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow and thrive. Our organisations values of caring, inclusive, courageous and learning are at the heart of everything we do.

We want to build teams that represent a variety of experience and perspectives so that we are truly representative of our communities. We are keen to hear from those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and people from all faiths, religions, gender and LGBT+ communities.

Want to know more about this role?

The role is based at Police Headquarters in Portishead working alongside your team, and you will also have the opportunity to work from home for a proportion of your working week.

The interview assessment process will be on the 5th March. This will comprise of a short presentation followed by a formal interview.

If you have any further questions regarding the role please contact

We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

Diversity is a strength and individuality is an asset.

We recognise the benefit different life experience and perspectives can bring.

We are on a journey to become the most inclusive police force in the country.

Find out more about our benefits and culture

Click the video link below to see why our colleagues feel they can "Be the Difference"

Please note: We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to ensure their application is considered.

Avon and Somerset Police encourage flexible working where operationally possible.
This role has been identified as a blended role.
The successful candidate for this role will have the opportunity to work from home whilst also at a secondary work location, which will be a police premises. The successful applicant will have the option to discuss working arrangements with their line manager. All applicants must reside within the UK.