Fire Trainer

The Role:

The Lancashire Industrial Fire Training Centre (LIFT), part of the Fleetwood Nautical Campus at Blackpool and The Fylde College (B&FC), is looking for a motivated and experienced Fire Trainer to join our Offshore Team. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver specialist fire training for Maritime, Oil & Gas, Industrial, and Nuclear sectors while shaping the next generation of industry-ready professionals.

Your Responsibilities Will Include:

As a Fire Trainer, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, practical, and theoretical fire training courses. Your key responsibilities include:

• Delivering engaging fire safety and firefighting training, including Breathing Apparatus (BA) training, across commercial and offshore programmes.
• Developing and maintaining course materials, ensuring they meet current industry standards and regulations.
• Conducting assessments and reviews, providing constructive feedback, and supporting learners to achieve outstanding outcomes.
• Collaborating with colleagues to ensure effective learning pathways, high retention rates, and quality improvement.
• Supporting course development, evaluation, and quality assurance activities to continually enhance training provision.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extensive fire service or equivalent experience in BA training, firefighting techniques, and classroom instruction.
• A teaching and assessor qualification (or willingness to achieve this within 24 months of appointment).

Why Join Us?

At B&FC, you’ll be part of a progressive and supportive team committed to excellence in technical training. Working at LIFT offers the opportunity to deliver specialist fire training in a world-class maritime training environment while developing your own professional expertise.

Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Early!

We may close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If this opportunity excites you, submit your application today!

How we support you

At Blackpool and The Fylde College, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and supportive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to take part in our selection process, please let the hiring manager or People Team know before your interview so we can make sure you have the support you need to perform at your best.

Please note that a full application must be submitted in order to apply for this role, as CVs alone cannot be accepted

Rewards and Benefits

Blackpool and The Fylde College is proud to be Great Place To Work® Certified™ 

• Enhanced leave allowance of 43 days (full-time equivalent), inclusive of bank holidays
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Competitive pension scheme:
• Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) - 28.68% employer contribution
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) - 15.4% employer contribution
• Extensive professional development opportunities for all, with B&FC choosing to invest circa. £1.8m annually in colleague development and professional qualifications
• Agile working opportunities
• Internal Coaching Service
• Enhanced Family friendly policies
• Extensive wellbeing provision including, but not limited to:
• Access to funded Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) available 24/7, 365 days a year
• Occupational Health
• FREE Flu Vouchers for those not entitled through the NHS
• FREE eye tests
• Dedicated Wellbeing Hub available to all colleagues containing rich and varied content with resources relating to emotional, physical, financial and social wellbeing
• FREE healthy breakfast
• Sports facilities including fully equipped gym and discounted memberships
• Health and beauty salon
• Trim Trails on Campus (guided routes for walks)
• Onsite food outlets and Starbucks at subsidised rates
• FREE car parking
• Car lease scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Onsite kids ‘Sports Camp’ 8am – 5pm during selected half-term breaks

Our Safeguarding Responsibilities

B&FC is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all colleagues to share in this commitment. All colleagues are required to complete safeguarding training and uphold the College’s policies and procedures to ensure a safe and supportive environment for learners. 

All roles at B&FC are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended), and employment is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, verification of qualifications and references, and the right to work in the UK. The amendments to the Act (2013 and 2020) mean that certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’ and do not need to be disclosed to employers. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website, and you can check whether your conviction or caution is spent by visiting the Disclosure Calculator

For further information on DBS, please click here

If you would like a copy of our Safeguarding Policy, please visit our website.