Apprenticeship training course

Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6)

Contribute to the local or national resilience and security agendas.

• Qualification level: 6 ; Equivalent to degree.
• Typical duration: 40 months
• Apprenticeship category: Protective services
• Maximum funding: £23,000 ; Maximum amount government will fund ; for apprenticeship training.
• Also known as:
  • Civil contingencies officer
  • Emergency planner
  • Emergency planning officer
  • Emergency preparedness officer
  • Resilience advisor
  • Resilience and response officer
  • Resilience officer
• Skills:
  Skills an apprentice will learn

  • 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.

Full information on Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

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