Home Safety and Partnerships Officer – Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
Are you ready to make a profound impact to the safety of your community? Are you an experienced management leadership professional? Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, the largest non-metropolitan Fire and Rescue Service in England, is on the lookout for Home Safety and Partnership Officers to join our Community Safety team. Please note that you will be expected to travel across the Service area to support your direct reports. This is a permanent, full-time position (37 hours per week) that offers a competitive salary starting at £37,035 rising annual to £39,513 (gross) per annum.
As a Home Safety and Partnerships Officer, you will support the Service in reducing risks for communities across the two counties by providing line management and leadership to the Home Safety Technicians and Partnership teams who engage with our communities to reduce incidents, injuries and deaths ensuring we are inclusive and reaching those most at risk.
Key Responsibilities:
Direct line management of the Home Safety Technicians and Partnerships team within your command area including recruitment, probation, leave, training, performance management and welfare. Provide mentoring, support, ongoing guidance and ensuring that work is allocated appropriately, work plans agreed, results are monitored, feedback given and any performance issues resolved.
Provide mentoring, support and guidance through the Personal Performance & Development (PPD) process for direct reports and ensure all staff receive the appropriate training and development to enable them to carry out their role effectively and efficiently.
Design, deliver, quality assure and evaluate activities and interventions within the Home Safety and Partnerships team and make recommendations for improvements and efficiencies.
To provide data on performance management reporting and effective data and evaluation to the Prevention delivery manager.
To assist with the creation, implementation and evaluation of the Community Safety Prevention policies and processes.
Generation of Home Safety Visit referrals to our target audience.
Maintain a professional knowledge by networking, attending training courses, benchmarking performance against other Fire and Rescue Services and reviewing professional publications.
Support the representation of DSFRS for existing networking both internal and external to the Service, such as Safer Devon/Somerset partnerships, and to feed back relevant information to senior management to support at a strategic level.
Monitor effective exchange of information with staff, partners and external agencies in line with DSFRS information assurance policy and procedures and compliance with GDPR.
Provide frequent progress reports on the delivery of Home Safety and Partnership activities.
Complete risk assessments for Home and Partnership activities.
Should you have any questions regarding the role, please contact 07768863876 or 07974086388.
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