Are you enthusiastic about plane accident investigation?

Are you on the lookout for a excessive profile function at the vanguard of aviation security?

In that case, it is a distinctive alternative to affix the Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB) as an Inspector of Air Accidents (Operations), and we’d love to listen to from you.

We recognise the challenges that folks with protected traits could expertise on the job market and of their profession development. We’re totally dedicated to being an inclusive employer and making certain equal alternatives. We’re eager to make our workforce as numerous as potential, and we hope to draw functions from underrepresented teams, together with ethnic minorities, folks with a incapacity, and folks with gender numerous identities.  

Job description

The Air Accidents Investigation Department (AAIB) is a part of the Division for Transport (DfT). The AAIB’s goal is to enhance aviation security by figuring out the circumstances and causes of plane accidents and critical incidents and selling security motion to stop re-occurrence. We examine accidents and critical incidents to civil plane within the UK (together with UK Abroad Territories and Crown Dependencies) and abroad the place there’s a UK curiosity.

You can be liable for investigating the operational elements of an incidence as a part of a multi-disciplinary workforce, together with interviewing witnesses and exploring related human components.

For additional details about our work please go to www.aaib.gov.uk.

Tasks embrace, however usually are not restricted to:

• You can be instrumental in figuring out the operational circumstances by which civil plane accidents and critical incidents happen worldwide, figuring out components that influenced the result and highlighting areas the place change would enhance security.
• You’ll assist the worldwide security investigation group to enhance aviation security globally by supporting international security investigation authorities and by conducting investigations within the UK’s Abroad Territories and Crown Dependencies.
• You’ll produce stories of the operational elements of an occasion and promote motion to enhance security by dialogue with related events and by making sound security suggestions.
• Following deadly accidents within the UK or involving UK residents abroad, you’ll preserve the households of victims knowledgeable of the progress of the investigation and you’ll transient them on its findings and conclusions. Additionally, you will be required to offer technical proof on the coroner’s inquest to clarify the findings of the report.

For extra data, please see the hooked up Position Profile.

Particular person specification

About you

To thrive on this function, you:

• Can have in depth and up to date skilled flying expertise, together with data of civilian plane operations and aviation on the whole.
• Will probably be extremely motivated, inquisitive, in a position to work below stress, and cozy working in a workforce or independently.
• Will need to have a broad technical and analytical functionality throughout a variety of plane technical and non-technical operational topics.
• Should be capable to work in difficult environments worldwide, typically at quick discover.
• Can have wonderful written communication abilities and be able to producing correct and clear stories. Additionally, you will have wonderful verbal and presentation abilities.
• Will possess the power to work with stakeholders, each inside and outdoors the AAIB workforce, to determine mutual respect and belief, and to speak clearly and successfully.

Extra data

As a result of nature of AAIB operations, the profitable candidate could also be uncovered to data and materials together with imagery (video and pictures) which can be distressing.  They might even be required to talk with doubtlessly traumatised accident victims, bereaved relations and witnesses.  It’s important that candidates take these necessities into consideration earlier than making use of for the put up. 

Candidates will likely be required to take part in a wellbeing and traumatic stress danger evaluate and on-line character questionnaire upfront of their formal evaluation. This danger evaluate isn’t a proper evaluation and won’t determine whether or not you progress to interview. The chance evaluate will embrace a brief questionnaire which is adopted up by a brief phone name with a Psychologist. Potential candidates are welcome to contact the AAIB for additional data (contact level under).

A minimal of 60% of your working time must be spent at your principal office, though necessities to attend different areas for official enterprise, or perform indifferent responsibility in one other DfT office, may even rely in direction of this stage of attendance. The function requires the place holder to be on-call for deployments besides while on Annual Depart or by mutual settlement with AAIB Administration. A roster is managed to make sure there will likely be durations the place you might be much less more likely to be referred to as.

Licences

Full UK Drivers Licence.

{Qualifications}

To be eligible for the function you could have:

• An Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence appropriate for working UK-registered plane.

• Skilled flying expertise in a multi-crew business surroundings inside the two years main as much as the cut-off date for functions.

Both:

• Greater than 4,500 hours as pilot on mounted wing plane, of which greater than 3,000 hours have been gained working plane over 5,700 kg certificated for operation with a minimal crew of two pilots.
or
• Greater than 2,500 hours as pilot on rotary wing plane, of which greater than 2,000 hours have been gained working in a multi-pilot surroundings in rotary wing plane over 3,175 kg certificated for multi-pilot operations.

Both:
• Greater than 1,000 hours accountable for multi-crew business plane.
or
• Important expertise of management and taking duty in an organisational setting, ideally within the aviation area.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you towards these behaviours in the course of the choice course of:

• Making Efficient Choices
• Working Collectively
• Speaking and Influencing

Technical abilities

We’ll assess you towards these technical abilities in the course of the choice course of:

• Making use of Experience and Know-how (AIB Competency).
• Written communication (AIB Competency).
• 1. Technique. 1.1. Coverage Context and Function. Degree 1: Creating.
• 2. Democracy. 2.1. Working with Ministers. Degree 1: Creating.

Advantages

Being a part of our good Civil Service means you’ll have entry to a variety of incredible advantages. We provide beneficiant annual go away, enticing pension choices, versatile working, inclusive working environments and far more to assist a wholesome work/life steadiness. 

Discover out extra about what it’s like working on the Division for Transport

Issues you should know

Choice course of particulars

This emptiness is utilizing Success Profiles (opens in a brand new window), and can assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Expertise and Technical abilities.

Easy methods to apply

As a part of the appliance course of, you can be requested to offer a CV and a 750-word Private Assertion.

Please tailor your CV to swimsuit the function.

On your Private Assertion, please present detailed proof of the next: 

• Having a assorted aviation background by way of roles, plane sorts/lessons, and kinds of flying.
• Expertise of constructing and sustaining relationships with a numerous vary of stakeholders

Please embrace in your private assertion proof of a assorted aviation background by way of roles, plane sorts/lessons and kinds of flying.

The sift is because of happen in the course of the w/c fifteenth April 2024.

On-line Persona Questionnaires and Psychological Trauma Threat Evaluation Evaluations will happen from w/c twenty ninth April 2024.

Interviews are more likely to be held on eighth or ninth Might 2024.

We are going to attempt to meet the dates set out within the advert. There could also be events when these dates will change. You can be supplied with ample discover of the confirmed dates. 

The choice course of will likely be designed particularly for the function. Because of this, your evaluation will embrace: 

• A coverage train.
• A presentation.
• A task play train.
• An interview.
• A capability check.

This interview will likely be performed Face to Face at our workplace. Additional particulars will likely be supplied to it’s best to you be chosen for interview.  

You’re inspired to turn out to be acquainted with the function profile, as it’s possible you’ll be assessed towards any of the factors recorded inside. 

The Division for Transport alongside different Authorities Departments recruit utilizing Success Profiles. This implies for every function we think about what you’ll need to reveal so as to achieve success. This offers us the absolute best probability of discovering the precise individual for the job, drives up efficiency and improves range and inclusivity. 

For additional data on Success Profiles go to our Careers web site. 

Affordable Changes

As a Incapacity Assured Chief employer, we’re dedicated to making sure that the recruitment course of is honest, accessible and permits all candidates to carry out at their finest. If an individual with a visual or non-visible incapacity is considerably deprived, we now have an obligation to make cheap modifications to our processes.

Full the “Help required” part within the “Extra necessities” web page of your software type to inform us what modifications or assist you to may want in the course of the recruitment course of. As an example, it’s possible you’ll want wheelchair entry at an interview, or for those who’re deaf, a Language Service Skilled.

For those who want an inexpensive adjustment in an effort to full your software, it’s best to contact Authorities Recruitment Service through dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as quickly as potential earlier than the cut-off date to debate your wants.

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In case you are experiencing accessibility issues with any attachments on this advert, please contact the e-mail deal with within the ‘Contact level for candidates’ part.

This job advert incorporates hyperlinks to the DfT Careers web site. Our web site supplies helpful steering and data that may assist you in the course of the software course of. For those who can’t entry the knowledge on our web site for any cause, please e-mail DRGComms@dft.gov.uk for help.

Additional Data

After about two years, topic to passable development and evaluation towards competency necessities, you’ll turn out to be a Senior Inspector and be awarded a non-pensionable allowance of £4,000 each year. After an additional interval of passable development and evaluation, it’s possible you’ll be awarded a further non-pensionable allowance of £2,000 each year. This normally happens about 4 years after reaching Senior Inspector

For extra details about how we rent, and for helpful tips about submitting your software for this function, go to the How We Rent web page of our DfT Careers web site. You will discover detailed details about the recruitment course of and what to anticipate when making use of for a task.

This function is full time solely. Candidates who want to work an alternate sample are welcome to use nonetheless your most well-liked working sample is probably not accessible and it’s best to focus on this with the emptiness holder earlier than making use of.

Pre-employment Checking

Candidates who’re profitable at interview will likely be, as a part of pre-employment screening, topic to a test on the Inside Fraud Database (IFD). This test will present details about staff who’ve been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This test additionally applies to staff who resign or in any other case go away earlier than being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s particulars held on the IFD will likely be refused employment. 

A candidate isn’t eligible to use for a task inside the Civil Service if the appliance is made inside a 5-year interval following a dismissal for finishing up inside fraud towards authorities.

For additional data on Nationwide Safety Vetting please go to the next web page https://www.gov.uk/authorities/publications/demystifying-vetting

Suggestions will solely be supplied for those who attend an interview or evaluation.

Safety

Profitable candidates should meet the safety necessities earlier than they are often appointed. The extent of safety wanted is safety test (opens in a brand new window).

See our vetting constitution (opens in a brand new window).

Individuals working with authorities belongings should full baseline personnel safety normal (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality necessities

This job is broadly open to the next teams:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Eire
• nationals of Commonwealth international locations who’ve the precise to work within the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and relations of these nationalities with settled or pre-settled standing below the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a brand new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and relations of these nationalities who’ve made a legitimate software for settled or pre-settled standing below the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• people with restricted go away to stay or indefinite go away to stay who have been eligible to use for EUSS on or earlier than 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and sure relations of Turkish nationals, who’ve accrued the precise to work within the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a brand new window) units out the requirements of behaviour anticipated of civil servants.

We recruit by benefit on the idea of honest and open competitors, as outlined within the Civil Service Fee’s recruitment rules (opens in a brand new window).

The Civil Service embraces range and promotes equal alternatives. As such, we run a Incapacity Assured Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimal choice standards.

The Civil Service additionally provides a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who’re prone to redundancy, and who meet the minimal necessities for the marketed emptiness.

Apply and additional data

This emptiness is a part of the Nice Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a brand new window) initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes functions from individuals who have just lately left jail or have an unspent conviction. Learn extra about jail leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact level for candidates

Job contact :

• Identify :Eileen Collins
• E-mail :Recruitment@aaib.gov.uk

Recruitment workforce

• E-mail :dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Additional data

For those who really feel your software has not been handled in accordance with the Recruitment Rules and also you want to make a criticism, within the first occasion, it’s best to contact Authorities Recruitment Companies through e-mail: dftrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
In case you are not happy with the response you obtain from the Division, you may contact the Civil Service Fee: Go to the Civil Service Fee web site Right here

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