GROUP TRAINER

Location: Eskdale, Lake District
Salary: £26,618- £36,085 plus benefits, (starting salary is dependent on qualifications and experience)
Applications in by: 09.00, Monday 11 November 2024
Interview: Reach the shortlist and you’ll be interviewed in person at Eskdale w/c 18 November 2024.
Start date: January 2025.

We are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and actively encourage women to apply for this position.

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Working at Eskdale

You’ll join a supportive and collaborative team in an energetic and engaging workplace. Our trainers are encouraged to be creative and authentic in their style, embrace differences and operate with high levels of autonomy, enabling participants to get the most out of themselves.

We’ll offer you an individualised and supportive induction programme, together with ongoing training and development to enable you to succeed in the role. All the training for activities is supported by our internal passing out process to help you make the most of our fabulous locations.

The job

You'll facilitate quality learning and development programmes in our stunning locations such as in gorges, on rivers and lakes, whilst wild camping or perched atop crags in the Eskdale valley.

You'll work exclusively with apprentices and graduates from across the UK. From helping first year cybersecurity apprentices get to grips with workplace behaviours to supporting graduates in the aerospace industry to recognise how their values as a leader influence others. Here are some examples of the types of programmes you will be designing and delivering to help young people successfully transition into the early stages of their careers.

We attract staff from across Cumbria and beyond. Group Trainers utilise time back in lieu to balance periods at work and at home. The centre offers various accommodation options on an ad hoc basis to support staff while they are at work if they don’t live nearby.

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ABOUT YOU

You will already be an experienced outdoor instructor/educator with a minimum certification of at least two of the NGB qualifications below. If you haven’t passed all three, we’d also like you to have started the third:

1. Summer Mountain Leader Award
2. Rock Climbing Instructor
3. BC Paddlesport Leader Award; or Paddlesport Instructor plus Canoe award; or equivalent previously recognised awards

You will have a confident inclusive approach, utilising your coaching, facilitating and instructing skills. With drive and commitment to your own continuous development, you will also be able to inspire and develop our course participants to achieve their best.

You might have higher level NGBs, or you might have consolidated your experience with baseline NGBs (ML, RCI and a paddlesport qualification), all of which will be supported with our internal passing out process to help you make the most of our wild environments.

We recognize the value that diverse perspectives bring to our team and are dedicated to supporting gender balance in the workplace. If you feel passionate about this opportunity and believe you can contribute to our mission, we encourage you to submit your application.

RELOCATING?

Our Eskdale centre is located in a rural community. We have some interim staff accommodation available, where staff can rent rooms within shared facilities, whilst searching for suitable places to live within our local communities. Or if you choose to live further afield and travel in, you’ll be able to make use of the staff accommodation whilst working.

Benefits

• Annual Leave of 24 days, plus bank holidays. Annual leave increases by 1 day per year to a maximum of 30 days, plus bank holidays.

• Life Assurance: 3 x salary, covered from start date; includes Employee Assistance Helpline.

• 8 weeks’ sick pay at full salary in any 12 months.

• Long-term Disability Insurance: 2/3 salary less state incapacity benefit after 6 months’ absence for up to 5 years, covered from start date

• Employee assistance programme Unum: In the form of an app, with easy access to medical and mental health support. Ranging from instant GPs appointments to physio or counselling services.

• Personal Accident Insurance while at work or commuting.

• Health Cash Plan with Medicash: a taxable benefit

• Pension Scheme (currently Standard Life): Auto-enrolment of all staff after 3 months service

• Berghaus uniform items provided and the opportunity to purchase Berghaus products at discount

• Staff bursaries: discounted course fees for family members

Plus!

• Personal Adventures – Outward Bound has a positive attitude to extended/unpaid leave (forward planning is required).

How to apply

If you think this job is right for you, send us your current CV and an email or letter (no more than two sides of A4 please) letting us know why.

Applications to Ian Davidson, Head of Learning and Adventure at: workforus@outwardbound.org.uk by 09.00, Monday, 11 November 2024.

We are keen to develop a more diverse workforce to closely represent the backgrounds of young people we work with. Applications from individuals under-represented in the outdoor sector, including women and minority ethnic backgrounds are particularly welcomed.

We reserve the right to close the recruitment process early where suitable candidates are identified and encourage an early application.

Please note this job is subject to an enhanced disclosure check.

PS - if this looks interesting, but there’s a little voice talking you out of applying, we’ll let you into a little secret: there’s no such thing as a perfect candidate. We’re all on this learning journey together at Outward Bound. However you identify, if you think this is a role you could excel in and more importantly, you’d be excited to do – then please get in touch.

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