Overview
West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) is the second largest fire and rescue service in England, serving an area of 902 km square and a population of over 2.9 million people. Our Strategy drives the people, professionalism, and pride with which we serve our communities. This temporary maternity cover offers an exciting opportunity to manage the Prevention Support Team, leading the Support Officers and Bookings Team, alongside colleagues in Development & Improvement and Delivery.
Responsibilities
* Provide leadership, line management, support, direction, and development opportunities for the team to deliver against their roles and responsibilities.
* Manage and allocate workstreams to the appropriate teams and roles based on risk for completion within agreed timescales.
* Manage and report performance, and contribute to performance management processes.
* Manage capacity, capability, performance, and attendance of the team.
* Identify and manage risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and opportunities for partnership, prevention activities, and education programmes.
* Manage budgets.
* Form positive relationships with partners at a strategic level to agree mutually beneficial priorities and programmes of work and ensure that our priorities are recognised.
* Represent the service’s interests in a wide range of organisational and public settings.
* Create and ensure that policies, processes, practices, guidance, and systems are of a high standard, conform to best practice, comply with legislation, minimise environmental impact, and meet the needs of the service and its diverse community.
Experience and skills
* Line management experience able to plan and prioritise own workload and that of others.
* Ability to take and accept responsibility and make decisions at a strategic and operational level.
* Self‑motivated, persistent, and able to influence others to adopt new initiatives.
* Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, excellent verbal and written skills.
* Ability to write and design policies in line with strategic objectives.
* Experience of writing funding bids, Service Level Agreements, and a range of partnership documentation.
* Ability to analyse and interpret complex data and develop policies.
* Experience of providing critical analysis and making recommendations.
* Experience of networking, partnership development, management, and evaluation.
Desirable
* Management qualification and/or considerable experience managing a professional function.
* Good knowledge and understanding of relevant national strategies, legislation and initiatives associated with the role.
* Project management qualifications and/or considerable experience in project management.
Benefits
* Friendly working environment and benefits including enhanced family leave benefits, 52 weeks fully-paid maternity and adoption leave, and flexible, agile working arrangements.
* On-site free gym facilities.
* Free parking.
* Access to an in‑house occupational health facility, including occupational health and fitness advisors, sports therapists, physiotherapists, cognitive behavioural therapy practitioners and counsellors.
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing programmes.
* ‘Bluelight’ discounts across many retailers through partner schemes.
* Sports and Welfare scheme (for a small fee) – with access to discounted products and services.
Diversity
We welcome applications from all eligible candidates. However, as women and Black and minority ethnic employees are currently under–represented in our service, we particularly encourage applications from these groups.
Contact
Questions? If you have any questions about the role or would like an informal discussion, please contact Pete Wilson on 07973 810262, by Teams or by email at pete.wilson@wmfs.net.
Apply
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