Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST) SME Supervisor
Job summary
This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.
This role is available as a designated homeworking role. Please note, some travel may be required.
About us:
Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.
Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.
We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.
Additional Information:
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.
The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process.
Our vetting
If you are successful at interview, you will be required to undertake pre-employment security checks. You will be sent a security questionnaire which must be accessed within 24 hours.
Please note, these checks can take up to 10 weeks. You will only be offered a start date after the checks have been completed. If the outcome of these checks is not satisfactory, your recommendation for employment will be withdrawn.
Job description
We look forward to reading your application for the role of Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST) SME Supervisor.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Staff Supervisor to drive forward the Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST) work. A new scenario lead teaching methodology has been introduced and it will be the role of the successful candidate to embed this new way of working. You will be the link between police forces and the College of Policing ensuring forces are supported and have the right direction to enable this new approach to be a success. This is an opportunity for a PPST subject matter expert to bring their knowledge into the College for the benefit of all forces.
In this post you will oversee the College’s licensing functions in PPST, you will ensure knowledge and good practice is shared, set standards, support professional development, and generate income nationally and internationally. PPST is a very specialised area of work that is undergoing a professionalisation process, including trainer standards, curriculum design, nationally agreed training duration and practices, and we need the successful candidate to build on this work and develop a new manual that is credible and auditable. You will work with a variety of stakeholders across policing both internally and externally, you and the team will provide associated subject matter expertise to police forces, senior stakeholders, and judicial bodies. The ability to build and maintain relationships is vital.
We are looking for a person who understands this business area and has the passion and energy to drive it forward for the benefit of the public and our policing colleagues. If you have the desire to make this area of business a success, we want to read your application form.
Person specification
Some of your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting the development, review, and implementation of a national training curriculum to reflect good practice, empirical research, medical advice and lessons learnt. Contributing towards the development and updating of relevant College guidance (e.g. APP, guidelines) as necessary.
- Providing advice, guidance and subject matter expertise to internal and external stakeholders to promote and support the development of evidence based good practice within specialism and ensure transfer of knowledge/information.
Ensuring the professional and timely preparation, organisation and delivery of curriculum, training products & lesson plans, presentations, training and seminars, including Trainers’ CPD events.
To be successful in this role you’ll need:
- Demonstrable experience of successful design and development of training and/or learning and development products using a variety of evidence-based approaches and delivery solutions and be current in the latest SBT methodology.
- Previous line management experience
- Proven experience of working collaboratively to develop and implement business solutions for all stakeholders.
- To meet the national PPST Instructor standard
Qualifications
Must meet the National PPST Instructor standard and be upskilled in Scenario Based Training (SBT)Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Developing Self and Others
- Working Together
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Subject matter expertise and evidence of CPD, building and retaining credibility as a subject expert (within PPST).
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £36,520, College of Policing contributes £10,579 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).College staff have Public Servant status. As a Public Servant, you are eligible to join the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.
The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits. The benefits we can offer include:
- Defined benefit pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
- Educational funding and study leave
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Flexi-time (for certain grades)
- Flexible working hours
- Childcare vouchers
- Benenden Healthcare
- National Dental Plan
- Discount scheme which provides cut-price on-line shopping
- Free employee support line
- Interest free loans for travel.
- Staff networks: You will have the opportunity to join our employee-run networks to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be heard. There are currently 6 staff networks; Diversity Champions, LGBT, Carer’s, Women’s, Parenting and our Diverse Ethnic Action network. Each network has access to an executive level sponsor.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.
Vacancy reference: 7328
Anticipated interview dates: Week commencing 26th Oct
Internal applicants who are at risk of redundancy or in need of redeployment and pass the recruitment process, will be given priority over other applicants.
The closing date for this vacancy is 11/10/ 2026,
How to apply and contact information:
For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.
What it's like working at the College of Policing
If you would like to discuss the role in more detail please contact Simon Tomlinson: Simon.Tomlinson@college.police.uk (Public Order Public Safety SME )
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
We believe that a diverse workforce brings many benefits to the organisation including diversity of thought and improvements to the way we work internally and with partners and communities. We strive to be fully inclusive but we know there is more to do. We genuinely encourage people from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply for this role.
We want to continually improve our recruitment processes and to remove any barriers to equal opportunities that could disadvantage those from particular backgrounds. In order for us to have the information to do this, we ask you to please complete the diversity section of the online application process. We use a “blind” shortlisting process and we hope that by using this method we will be able to promote greater diversity in our workforce and remove any subconscious decisions based on biases.
The College is committed to support the Greening Government Commitment and reducing our Environmental impact. We have a dynamic Environmental Management Plan in place which encompasses various objectives, including our pledge to reduce business travel. To support our green agenda we have, in phase one, installed Electric Vehicle Charging Points at our sites in Ryton (12 points) and Harperley Hall (4 points) alongside two at our Harrogate office. We encourage employees to become an Environment Champion to help with promoting and delivering our Environmental Management Plan. Our One Step Greener approach encourages all College staff to make small changes to create a better future for everyone.
Please note that in order to work for the College of Policing you must have the Right to Work in the UK with indefinite leave to remain. In addition, you will also be required to provide an address history in the UK for the preceding 5 years.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : College of Policing Recruitment Department
- Email : recruitment@college.police.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@college.police.uk
Attachments
T42B JD Public Order Personal Safety Training SME Team Supervisor Final December 2023 (1) Opens in new window (docx, 71kB)Salary range
- £36,520 - £40,120 per year