SMR Incident Management course 2025

Description:

In the context of People, Process and Partnership the course aims and objectives are:

• Deliver coordination practices to lead an incident on the basis of a common mental model
• Provide tools and methodologies to effectively coordinate an incident
• Explore teamworking and leadership dynamics

At the end of this course, delegates will be expected to be able to:

• have the skills and tools to be able to effectively coordinate a mountain rescue incident
• to have an awareness and understanding of teamwork and leadership dynamics
• utilise additional information provided during the course in relation to partner agencies and additional support they can provide to facilitate the running of the incident

Whilst an awareness of mountain rescue incident management and co-ordination would be beneficial to attendees, this course should appeal to both aspirant and experienced team members who already carry out the role.

The weekend schedule will include a mix of presentations, external speakers and practical scenarios to support open discussion around a variety of related topics including:

1. Human Factors
2. Decision Making
3. Effective Communication
4. Team Structure
5. Administration to record, decide and support
6. Briefing / Debriefing
7. Helicopter tasking and support
8. Technology
9. Media
10. Practical Scenarios
11. Peer Shared learning
12. Scene Management
13. Ongoing Wellbeing Support

Although this course is no substitute for experience, by the end of the weekend we would expect delegates to have the knowledge to begin to work within their team's existing incident management structure to build practical experience and to be able to run low complexity incidents.

Accommodation:

Accommodation will be provided at Stirling Court Hotel.

Please note that an evening meal on Friday evening will not be provided.

Included is Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner and Sunday breakfast and lunch.

The course:

Full details of the course will be sent out in advance of the course running.

Essentially it will run from 2000hrs on Friday through to late Sunday afternoon.

THE SMALL PRINT!

Please speak to your Training Officer before booking this course to ensure it is relevant.

We will open this course up to 2 members per team initially. After a couple of weeks of the course being bookable, if there are still spaces available, we will open the course up.

Police Scotland / RAF mountain rescue attendees:

Please contact the SMR Office on 01479 861370 before booking onto the course.

Cancellation Policy:

SMR reserves the right to charge a cancellation fee of £100 if failure to turn up to this course or a cancellation too late in which we cannot fill your space. This fee allows us to offset any costs which we will be incurred as a result of late cancellation. SMR Office will invoice directly to your Mountain Rescue team.

If you have any questions about this course, please email bookings@scottishmountainrescue.org

Privacy Notice

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You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to info@scottishmountainrescue.org clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.

SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.

Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.

We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.

In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.

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