202610 - Police Driving Instructor - Transferring Officers

Job description

202610 - Police Driving Instructor - Transferring Officers

Vacancy Reference Number

23080

Number of Vacancies

6

(B) OCU

NW - North West Command Unit

Location

The primary training site is Hendon, with additional delivery locations at Sidcup and Havering.

Rank

Police Constable

Part/Full Time

Full Time

Hours per Week

40 hours per week

Type of Contract

Police Officer - Subject to tenure

Job Advert

Police Constable Driving Instructor

Metropolitan Police Service Driving Academy

Help shape the future of police driving in the UK's largest police service.

The Metropolitan Police Service Driving Academy is seeking experienced, College of Policing accredited Police Driving Instructors to join our team.

This is an exciting opportunity to deliver some of the most diverse and challenging driver training in UK policing. From Response and Advanced driving through to pursuit tactics, protection operations and specialist vehicle training, you'll play a key role in preparing officers and staff to operate safely and effectively across London.

As a Police Driving Instructor with the Met, you'll join a highly professional team responsible for developing thousands of police drivers every year.

Why Join the Metropolitan Police Driving Academy?

• Deliver training across one of the broadest portfolios of police driving disciplines in the UK.
• Train officers and staff who police one of the world's most diverse and dynamic cities.
• Work alongside experienced instructors dedicated to professional development and innovation.
• Opportunities to develop further instructional skills and gain exposure to specialist driving operations.
• Primarily Monday to Friday working pattern.
• Potential to work from Hendon, Sidcup or Havering, subject to operational requirements.

What You'll Be Delivering

The demands of policing London require the MPDA to deliver a wide range of police and specialist driver training, including:

• Response and Advanced Car
• Response and Advanced Motorcycle
• Initial Phase Pursuit (IPP)
• Tactical Pursuit and Containment (TPAC)
• VIP Protection Driving
• Evasive and Offensive Driving
• Armoured and Non-Armoured Personnel Carrier Training
• LGV and PCV licence category training and testing

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver practical and classroom-based driver training to MPS officers and staff.
• Assess and develop students to nationally recognised standards.
• Maintain the highest standards of safety, professionalism and instructional quality.
• Complete accurate training documentation and maintain training records.
• Support the ongoing development of police driving capability across the organisation

Essential For The Role

Essential Criteria

• Substantive Police Constable.
• Qualified and College of Policing accredited Police Driving Instructor.
• Training Essentials Programme (TEP) completed to Module 5.
• In date with PPST, ELS and JRFT.
• Able to meet the requirements of a fully deployable uniform role.

Desirable Criteria

• Police Motorcycle Rider qualification.
• LGV and/or PCV licence holder (C1, D1, C, D, C+E).
• DVSA Delegated Examiner qualification.

Working Arrangements

The Driving Academy predominantly operates Monday to Friday between 0730hrs and 1530hrs. Some flexibility is required to support "driving in darkness" training.

The primary training site is Hendon, with additional delivery locations at Sidcup and Havering.

Officers are expected to work Level 3 aid commitments, approximately 8 days a year plus Notting Hill Carnival and New Years Eve.

The MPS operates a BCU rotation policy, under which officers are expected to rotate to a BCU (Basic Command Unit - the local policing command responsible for neighbourhood, response and investigative policing), after serving 10 years in a specialist role.

Selection Process

Successful applicants will be invited to an assessment process consisting of:

• An interview
• Assessed general drive
• Assessed emergency response drive with instructional commentary

Assessment drives will be conducted in an unmarked response vehicle.

Contact Details

Please contact Insp Taz Ghani (Chief Driving Instructor) or PS Fraser Heath (Recruitment Lead) if you require more information -

[email protected]

[email protected]

If you have any queries in respect of this opportunity, or need support in applying, please contact the Met's Recruitment Team at [email protected] or by telephone to 01633 630934 option 5 followed by option 3. The team are available Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 6:00pm (excluding Bank Holidays).

Disability Confident Statement

The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about .