Head of Community Safety and Engagement

• Grade 9 - £57,886 - £63,661
• 37 Hours Per Week (Monday – Friday)
• Permanent
• Highfields Fire Station, Hassocks Lane, Nottingham, NG9 2GQ with work locations across Nottinghamshire

Do you have a passion for working with people, making a difference, and improving people’s lives? Are you an outstanding leader, someone who lives and works by our Values and someone who wants to work for a progressive, caring, public-serving organisation? Do you  have extensive experience of leading and managing a diverse team, driving improvement and delivering organisational change? If so, you sound like the perfect candidate for the role of Head of Community Safety and Engagement!

We are looking for someone with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong and constructive relationships, both between Departments and with partners and communities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of fire prevention initiatives as well as education and youth and community engagement activities.

This Head of Department role will provide direction and innovation to design and deliver activities which seek to improve our engagement with communities, their understanding of us and to support our workforce diversity. Close working with other service delivery departments is essential to ensure community safety and engagement activities are high quality and aligned to strategic objectives.

The ability to provide direction and leadership to a diverse team of specialists is essential. Designing and evaluating services based on data, evidence and evaluation of activities, to ensure that the team are reaching our target audiences, and are seeking continuous improvement from the activities they undertake, will be vital for this role. 

Why NFRS?

• Agile Working – We are very proud to offer employees the ability to mix office working with working from home to provide flexibility to help with your work life balance.
• Flexibility – We are family friendly and are open to considering different working patterns which help you provide a better service to our community while supporting your home life. We also support part time working.
• Annual Leave - 27 days of annual leave plus bank holidays and a Christmas concessionary day.
• Pension – Access to a public service defined benefit pension scheme.
• Health and Wellbeing - As a Service we provide a wide range of Health and Wellbeing support to all our employees which includes access to a Bupa cashback  scheme, an Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated Occupational Health team who are there to support you. Also, all employees receive free access to an onsite gym.
• Blue Light Card – working for an emergency service you will have the ability to apply for a Blue Light Card which enables discounts on shopping and eating out.
• Development – You will have access to both formal and informal professional development opportunities which will help you advance your career.

If you feel you have the skills and experience, we are looking for and want to play an integral part in keeping Nottinghamshire communities safe, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Further Information

We are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments. 

NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process.

The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years to be eligible for a Police Vetting check.

Candidates who have been successful at the initial shortlisting stage will be asked to produce a report (title to be confirmed) and take part in a stakeholder panel and, if successful at that stage, a final interview process.

Candidates who would like to discuss the role can contact Area Manager Tom Archer.

A briefing session regarding the process will be held on the 4th June at 1400hrs. To attend this session please contact us.

Further information and an online application form are available on our recruitment portal.

Application Closing date: 10th June at 1200hrs
Stakeholder Panel: 13th and 14th July 
Interview date: 22nd and 23rd July