INVESTIGATING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF CIVIL PROTECTION SERVICE OFFICERS AND ITS IMPACT ON THEIR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

The presented article investigates characteristic features and content of professional training of the officers of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine within the pedagogical concept, based on the understanding of communicative competence of future specialists as a base and means of forming their professional competencies. It has been analyzed that communicative competence is a paramount indicator of professional competence of a civil protection service officer, and therefore its formation is one of the basic tasks of vocational education in departmental educational institutions. The author accented that training of future officers is carried out in two directions simultaneously: civil standardized and special non-standardized. Based on the analysis of normative documents, key vocational qualification requirements for the professions (positions) of civil protection workers were traced. The content of communicative competence is revealed, its main components (personal, cognitive) are defined. It is revealed that personal component reflects motives, values, attitudes, etc.; cognitive component is the system of knowledge. The author traces understanding of the phenomenological essence of key concepts related to the concept “communicative competence of an officer”», in particular: “communicative activity”», «officer’s readiness for professionally oriented communication activity”, etc. The author’s views on the leading directions of formation of the officer’s communicative competence during training in the departmental institution of higher education are presented: development of communication skills; development of general and special educational skills; development of compensatory skills; development of a positive personal attitude to the language; development of skills necessary for accumulation of experience, realization of creative, search activity; by means of a foreign language.