Emergency Preparation & Resilience Apprentice (Degree Apprenticeship)

Summary

Yorkshire Water offer a comprehensive apprenticeship programme enabling our apprentices to develop their competence to the best of their ability. Our programme includes dedicated mentorship from experts in the field, employability skills sessions, social events along with a dedicated team of Apprenticeship experts monitoring programmes.

Wage

£24,309 a year

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A company incentive bonus is paid on top of the salary.

Training course

Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6)

Hours

Monday to Friday 37 hours per week, the hours of work can be flexible according to the incidents/crisis taking place however typically this could be 8am to 4pm.

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 8 September

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

As our Resilience and emergencies professional Apprentice you will learn to develop competence in:

Communicating and working alongside internal and external stakeholders at different levels of seniority during crisis events.
Applying risk management tools and techniques to assess risks that are associated during crisis.
Managing the company incident room, ensuring it’s prepared for times of crisis and utilising its facilities during crisis.
Utilise resilience tools and techniques to reduce the risk of crisis
Ensuring our operations are protected, free from threat and ready to serve our customers.
Creating responses before, during and after crisis to ensure stakeholders are kept updated.
Applying, improving and maintaining systems of work and technologies to improve the way in which responses to crisis are carried out.

Where you’ll work

Western House

Halifax Road

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD6 2SZ

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply policies, legislation, regulations and guidance to ensure compliance and resilience.
Apply relevant governance structures, standards, policies, and frameworks to evidence and assure performance, impacts, and resilient outcomes.
Contribute to the debriefing process (post-exercise or post-incident).
Contribute to the accountability process for performance, impacts, resilience outcomes, and areas for improvement to stakeholders.
Support lesson learning, improvement and sustainable change.
Keep records of decisions, actions, those responsible and rationale.
Collect and analyse information in support of resilience and emergencies.
Use and improve systems, processes, or applications to gather, manage, visualise, and share information.
Scale, coordinate, or integrate activities to maximise resilience and ensure interoperability (locally, regionally, sector wide or nationally as appropriate to role and employing organisation).
Assess the information needs across the emergency cycle.
Identify, engage, and communicate information with a range of stakeholders.
Project manage initiatives or activities within area of responsibility.
Evaluate the risk context.
Identify and assess risks.
Make timely and evidence-based decisions.
Facilitate the development, maintenance, or implementation of resilience and emergency capabilities (for example, early warning, communications, technical specialisms, safety, security, resource and supply).
Assess the effectiveness and relative value (for example, economic, environmental, and societal) of risk management options.
Contribute to the development and delivery of resilience and emergency training.
Contribute to the design and delivery of emergency exercises.
Apply an all-risks approach.
Scope, document, review and update emergency, crisis or continuity arrangements.
Support emergency response within scope of responsibilities (in an incident or as part of an exercise).
Assess and prioritise recovery needs.
Apply recovery plans and exit strategies to a real or simulated emergency or crisis (during an incident or as part of an exercise).
Consider financial implications of resilience or emergency activities.
Monitor dynamic situations and the effectiveness of interventions.
Apply policies, legislation, regulations and guidance to ensure compliance and resilience.
Apply relevant governance structures, standards, policies, and frameworks to evidence and assure performance, impacts, and resilient outcomes.
Contribute to the debriefing process (post-exercise or post-incident).
Contribute to the accountability process for performance, impacts, resilience outcomes, and areas for improvement to stakeholders.
Support lesson learning, improvement and sustainable change.
Keep records of decisions, actions, those responsible and rationale.
Collect and analyse information in support of resilience and emergencies.
Use and improve systems, processes, or applications to gather, manage, visualise, and share information.
Scale, coordinate, or integrate activities to maximise resilience and ensure interoperability (locally, regionally, sector wide or nationally as appropriate to role and employing organisation).
Assess the information needs across the emergency cycle.
Identify, engage, and communicate information with a range of stakeholders.
Project manage initiatives or activities within area of responsibility.
Evaluate the risk context.
Identify and assess risks.
Make timely and evidence-based decisions.
Facilitate the development, maintenance, or implementation of resilience and emergency capabilities (for example, early warning, communications, technical specialisms, safety, security, resource and supply).
Assess the effectiveness and relative value (for example, economic, environmental, and societal) of risk management options.
Contribute to the development and delivery of resilience and emergency training.
Contribute to the design and delivery of emergency exercises.
Apply an all-risks approach.
Scope, document, review and update emergency, crisis or continuity arrangements.
Support emergency response within scope of responsibilities (in an incident or as part of an exercise).
Assess and prioritise recovery needs.
Apply recovery plans and exit strategies to a real or simulated emergency or crisis (during an incident or as part of an exercise).
Consider financial implications of resilience or emergency activities.
Monitor dynamic situations and the effectiveness of interventions.

Your training plan

The training will be delivered through Coventry University on a blended learning approach. This includes webinars, self study and block release once per term to their campus. Costs associated with the block release will be covered by Yorkshire Water.

More training information

Coventry University are a leading training provider for the apprenticeship standard and have a emergency response crisis control room that is used to simulate what it is like to work during a crisis.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade C/4)
Mathematics (grade C/4)

A Level in:

3 A-levels in any Subject (grade C/Pass)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Logical
Team working
Non judgemental
Driving Licence

Other requirements

This role will require you to travel across Yorkshire to a variety of sites at least 2 days per week. There will also be opportunity to work from home 1 day per week.

About this company

Our Funded Learning team work closely with teams across the business to offer as many quality opportunities as possible to support the building of knowledge, skills and behaviours for our learners to use in the workplace. Each apprentice will benefit from a support network including former apprentices who have been on similar journeys and a central support team who will make sure your training provider delivers a quality programme. Complemented by employability workshops, experiential team building sessions and social activities, our apprentice remain strong as a cohort throughout their career at Yorkshire Water.

https://www.yorkshirewater.com/careers/early-careers-and-work-experience/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

Attractive pension scheme, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays plus an extra wellness day! Life assurance cover Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

After this apprenticeship

The role comes with a progression plan which links to pay increases. Typical progression is from an Emergency Preparaion & Resilience Assistant to an Emergency Preparaion & Resilience Specialist and into leadership roles.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED

Lucy Parr

lucy.parr@yorkshirewater.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000300102.

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Closes in 24 days (Friday 7 March)

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Company’s application instructions

Applicants need to upload a C.V. and covering letter. Successful candidates will then need to be available to attend an assessment centre between 24th Match and 3rd April.

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