Emergency Services

As modern cities grow to meet the needs of an expanding population, so do the challenges faced by the people charged with managing the welfare of its people. The emergency services are the lifeblood of any city, ensuring the safety and security of its citizens and infrastructure. Due to a number of factors, the emergency services are under pressure to be more effective as well as more efficient than ever before. To achieve this goal, staff will need to gain the skills required to deal with the demands of the modern workplace. Salford Professional Development offer a range of short courses for all emergency service disciplines, ensuring your staff has the skills and knowledge to progress in their career and meet the needs of the public.

Salford Professional Development are committed to providing high quality training that also takes in to account the commercial needs of your industry. Our short courses can help you further your knowledge and achieve your career goals, meaning you can feel confident in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

A key factor in the success of any organisation is the skills, knowledge & experience of its workforce. Salford Professional Development has been created in partnership with the University of Salford to provide short courses for local government. Drawing upon the university’s 100 year history of educational excellence, Salford Professional Development delivers high quality courses that meet the needs of any organisation and its workforce.

Our focus is on interdisciplinary learning that is flexible, current to practice and competitively priced. We provide courses that combine expert teaching with the practical application of skills in a learning environment designed to foster a positive experience that all those attending can take back with them to the workplace.

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Training tailored for you

Continued professional development training can be beneficial for employees at all stages of their career, from recently appointed employees to Chief Officers. Our training packages attract people from across the country and from a range of organisations from across the public, private and voluntary and community sectors, proving valuable for all those willing and able to continue their professional development.

Courses designed and delivered by expert professionals and practitioners

We deliver a range of open courses that address all the key areas that are relevant to all those who work within this sphere, namely: 

• Building and developing resilient infrastructure
• Leadership and development
• Reducing reoffending
• A changing police structure
• Emergency planning and civil protection
• Major incident response and crisis management
• Risk management, including risk communication, warning and informing
• Business continuity planning and disaster recovery
• Community resilience, including community engagement and recovery activities
• Emerging trends and issues in emergency response and disaster management
• Cultural change
• ….and many more