First Aid & Fire Safety Trainer (Casual) - Gladstone

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Simulation-Based Fire Trainer – Gladstone

Bring your emergency experience to life. Empower others. Help save lives when it matters most.

Gladstone | Casual role | Travel opportunities

Make a real impact using your operational experience

At Real Response, we train people for the kinds of emergencies that don’t follow a script.

We create high-intensity, real-world training environments where participants learn to stay calm, and make life-saving decisions. Our trainers are current or former emergency professionals who know firsthand that real incidents don’t happen in tidy classrooms, and that preparation matters.

As A Trainer, You’ll:

• Deliver engaging, high-quality fire safety training, including Fire Warden, Fire Extinguisher and Evacuation courses.
• Deliver simulation-based first aid training where relevant to your qualifications and experience.
• Adapt your delivery style to suit different client groups, environments and locations.
• Travel to client sites throughout the Gladstone region and surrounding areas.
• Receive comprehensive onboarding, training, equipment and ongoing support from our national training team.
• Have opportunities to expand into first aid, electrical rescue, tactical medicine or mental health training where your experience and qualifications align.

You’ll Ideally Have:

• Experience delivering workplace fire safety training, including Fire Warden, Fire Extinguisher and Evacuation training.
• Relevant operational experience in fire, emergency response, industry or a related field.
• If delivering first aid training, experience as a paramedic, emergency nurse, fire EMR, military medic or similar emergency response professional.
• Strong communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• A professional presence and the ability to engage confidently with a diverse range of participants.
• A current Police Check and Working With Children Check, or willingness to obtain them.
• Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE40110, TAE40116 or TAE40122), evidence of enrolment in TAE40122, or willingness to undertake this prior to employment.
• A current driver’s licence and reliable vehicle to travel to course locations.
• A laptop or similar device suitable for connecting to AV systems at client and training sites.
• Comfortable with the practical requirements of delivering training, including transporting and setting up essential training equipment.

Why Join Us:

• Make a genuine impact by helping people prepare for real-world emergencies.
• Work with an energised and supportive team that values collaboration, initiative and professional growth.
• Enjoy flexibility, with opportunities for casual and permanent work depending on your availability and experience.
• Work around existing operational roles, shift work or other commitments.
• Access opportunities to broaden your training portfolio across multiple emergency response disciplines.
• Be part of an organisation redefining how emergency training is taught, understood and applied.

About Real Response

At Real Response, we do training differently.

We bring together emergency professionals, educators and creatives to deliver immersive, high-impact training that sticks, because in a real emergency, there’s no time to second-guess.

Over a decade ago, our founders Ben and Motti saw a problem: too many people were leaving training without the confidence to act in real-life emergencies. They set out to change that by creating a new kind of training where realism, confidence and hands-on experience are at the core.

Today, we’re a team of 40+ passionate professionals working across Australia and beyond. We deliver nationally recognised training across first aid, fire safety, emergency response, mental health, tactical medicine and security.

We proudly work with organisations including the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), University of Melbourne, Metro Trains, Rio Tinto, Australian Federal Police and many others.

From small businesses to high-risk industries and government departments, our reach is wide but our impact is always personal.

We’re not just teaching skills, we’re empowering people to save lives.

Ready to Make a Difference?

If you’re passionate about helping others and want to use your emergency experience to empower people to act when it matters most, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and help us bring lifesaving skills to life.

Company Overview

Real Response is an Australian training company with a global footprint. Founded with a mission to ‘Empower people with vital skills to navigate critical situations’, Real Response meets this mission through the use of simulation both live and synthetic. Since its inception in 2014 Real Response has trained over 20,000 students annually across Australasia, Asia and the Middle East & transformed the way first aid is taught both domestically & internationally, by immersing participants in simulated medical emergencies, much like elite medical teams, military and police forces are trained. Their clients include some of the most high risk organisations within government, heavy industry, manufacturing and transportation. As a result of our training methodology, Real Response has been entrusted by numerous high risk organisations around Australia & the globe to deliver first aid training for their staff. Real Response has transformed the way safety courses are taught by immersing participants in simulated emergencies, much like elite medical teams, military and police forces are trained. Real Response believes that training is not just a compliance exercise, and tailor their approach for organisations so that the impact of the training is strengthened, replacing the standard off the shelf service which is generally provided.