Job Title: Response Driver Trainer

Location: Ruislip, West London or Beckton, East London

Compensation: £43,888 + £5k allowance on completion of NFCC Qualification + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73497

Training those who protect London every day

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Response Driver Trainer at either our Ruislip or Beckton sites.

The role

As a Response Driver Trainer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will combine classroom instruction with practical, on road assessment, providing clear feedback, professional judgement and structured development plans. Alongside developing others, this role offers continued personal growth through nationally recognised qualifications and the opportunity to shape best practice within emergency services training.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

Deliver classroom based and practical emergency response driving training
Observe and assessing learner driving performance under emergency conditions
Provide constructive feedback and agreeing appropriate improvement plans
Ensure training is delivered safely, in line with risk assessments and policies
Maintain accurate training, assessment and compliance records

The role is full time, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, and is based onsite at either Ruislip or Beckton, with regular travel to other London Fire Brigade sites across London.

Essential experience of the Response Driver Trainer:

Experience as an emergency response driver within UK Police, Fire or Ambulance Services
Strong working knowledge of Roadcraft principles and emergency response driving
Experience assessing driving competence in operational or training environments
Ability to communicate clearly, calmly and confidently in high pressure situations
Confidence managing learner welfare, safety and performance concerns

Qualifications for the Response Driver Trainer:

DVSA Approved Driving Instructor qualification, Grade A or B
DVSA Category C Large Goods Vehicle licence, held for a significant number of years
Assessor qualification, or willingness to work towards one
Completion of National Fire Chiefs Council Emergency Response Driving portfolio is desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What we offer

Generous holiday allowance
Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
Employee shopping savings portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 19/05/2026

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