Debrief Facilitator

• Debrief facilitators are responsible for the facilitation of local and Level 1 debriefs, and where necessary support the facilitation of Level 2 and Level 3 debriefs.

• Facilitate local and Level 1 debriefs and produce reports outlining key recommendations in order to identify good practice and areas for improvement and to contribute to organisational memory.
• Develop clear policies for the retention and storage of information to enable timely retrieval procedures in response to requests for debrief materials.
• Assist partner agencies and event organisers in the facilitation of multi-agency debriefs in support of the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP).
• Provide briefing and debriefing for planned policing operations to ensure Joint Operational Learning (JOL) is captured.
• Identify where Level 2 and Level 3 debriefs are required in order to request appropriate support from the National Policing Coordination Centre (NPoCC) and/or the College of Policing.
• Evaluate welfare considerations when facilitating debriefs, for example Trauma Risk Incident Management (TRiM) and Post Incident Management (PIM), in order to identify when further referral or support may be required.
• Act in adherence to all legal frameworks, key working principles, policies and guidance relevant to the role.

Prior Education and Experience:

• To have attended the College of Policing structured debrief course.
• Has undertaken a minimum of 1 structured debrief in the past 12 months.
• Has managed the administration of a structured debrief including meeting with the initiator and agreeing terms of reference in line with the National De-brief guidelines.
• To be a serving police officer or police staff member.
• Completion of the College of Policing National Structured De-brief Course.

Skills:

• Able to communicate clearly, adapting language, form and message to ensure understanding.
• Able to appropriately prioritise and plan own work and use resources effectively and efficiently.
• Able to identify cause and effect and develop a course of action designed to target root causes.
• Able to identify potential opportunities to enhance efficiency and/or effectiveness within own area of work.
• Good team working skills demonstrating awareness of individual differences and providing support as required.
• Able to proactively develop effective working relationships with colleagues, partners and other stakeholders.

• Personal responsibility for CPD.
• Research and refresh own subject matter expertise.
• Maintain currency of College of Policing Guidance, best practice and any local policy applicable to the operational police context and leading and managing teams.
• Maintain and update key knowledge, understanding and skills relating to legislation policy and practice across all functional policing areas of operational responsibility.
• Maintain knowledge and understanding of new approaches identified by evidence based policing research and problem solving and team working and synthesise these into working practice.
• Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of new and evolving crime threats and priorities; and current best practice to tackle these in order to enable a pro-active and preventative approach.
• Complete all annual and mandatory training including for example, fitness tests, personal safety training, first aid, and protecting information.

Not applicable.

NPoCC Mercury Profile – National De-briefer 504 v1