Apprenticeship training course
Resilience and emergencies professional (level 6)
Contribute to the local or national resilience and security agendas.
- Qualification level
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6
Equivalent to degree. - Typical duration
- 40 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Protective services
- Maximum funding
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£23,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Civil contingencies officer
- Emergency planner
- Emergency planning officer
- Emergency preparedness officer
- Resilience advisor
- Resilience and response officer
- Resilience officer
- Skills
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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.