Resilience Officer Degree Apprenticeship

Summary

A Resilience and Emergency Response Apprentice, will develop the skills to support planning and delivery of emergency response and business continuity arrangements. You will play a crucial part in maintaining and enhancing our ability to keep people safe, protect the environment, and build resilience across the communities we serve.

Wage

£24,242 a year

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Training course

Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6)

Hours

A mixture of onsite work, offsite, hybrid working and University, shifts TBC.

37 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Ready to make a difference? Join Our Team as a Resilience and Emergency Response Specialist!

Are you passionate about making a difference and ensuring the safety and resilience of communities?

Do you thrive in dynamic environments where innovation and quick adaptation are key?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!

Main Purpose of the Job:

As a Resilience and Emergency Response Apprentice, you will embark on a journey to develop the skills necessary to support the planning and delivery of emergency response and business continuity arrangements. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring our organisation is prepared for, can effectively respond to, and recover from incidents, providing assurance to communities, stakeholders, executive, and board. You will play a crucial part in maintaining and enhancing our ability to keep people safe, protect the environment, and build resilience across the communities we serve.

Key Responsibilities:

Facilitate the organisation's response to incidents, ensuring swift and effective action.
Develop and review emergency response arrangements and the required supporting documentation.
Plan and deliver training and exercises as part of a comprehensive program.
Develop and review business continuity arrangements and the necessary supporting documentation.
Identify and assess risks systematically to ensure preparedness.
Maintain, apply, and improve management and governance systems to ensure an effective response capability.
Debrief live incidents and training sessions to identify lessons and implement them as part of a continual improvement cycle.
Horizon scan for emerging risks and opportunities to stay ahead of potential challenges.
Proactively engage with internal and external stakeholders on resilience issues.
Complete a level 6 undergraduate degree apprenticeship in resilience and emergencies management.

Why Join Us?
Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly enhance the safety and resilience of our communities.
Collaborative Environment: Work alongside various departments and partners, fostering innovation and problem-solving.
Professional Growth: Gain valuable skills and knowledge through hands-on experience and a structured apprenticeship program.
Dynamic Challenges: Adapt to evolving environmental conditions and address emerging risks with agility and creativity.

If you're ready to take on a role that makes a real difference, apply now and become a vital part of our team dedicated to resilience and emergency response!

To find out more about The Mining Remediation Authority, and the Resilience Officer Degree Apprenticeship, we would like to invite you to a webinar being held on May 7th at 18:00 - 19:00 BST.

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Where you’ll work

200 Lichfield Lane
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 4RG

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

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

Complete a level 6 undergraduate degree apprenticeship in resilience and emergencies management with Coventry University

More training information

Coventry University offers a Level 6 "Resilience and Emergencies Professional" apprenticeship. This apprenticeship allows individuals to gain a higher-level qualification in emergency management while earning a wage.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4 or above)
Maths (grade 4 or above)

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
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Creative
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas. We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution. We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050. We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.

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Company benefits

Pension employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97% Holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, 8 public holidays £15 monthly towards well-being activities.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

As a Resilience and Emergency Response Apprentice, you will embark on a journey to develop the skills necessary to support the planning and delivery of emergency response and business continuity arrangements. Your role will be pivotal in ensuring any organisation is prepared for, can effectively respond to, and recover from incidents, providing assurance to communities, stakeholders, executive, and board.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Mining Remediation Authority

Recruitment Team

recruitment@miningremediation.gov.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315825.

Apply now

Closes in 18 days (Wednesday 14 May 2025)

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Company’s application instructions

Webinar: 7th May 2025 Application closing date: 14th May 2025 Sifting date: 15th & 16th May 2025 Assessment day: 22nd May 2025

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