Contract: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours*
Salary: £41,771 – £45,091 per annum
Location: Kelvedon Park – involves travelling across Essex
Closing Date: 5pm, 31st August 2025
*We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours and location, however the expectation is that, as a hybrid role your work will be balanced between home and Services facilities, and you will be expected to attend the Service premises for at least 3 days of a 5-day working week.
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people while contributing to a safer community? We have an exciting opportunity for an Education and Fire Safety Intervention Lead to join our Prevention team and play a vital role in delivering impactful educational and fire safety interventions across Essex.
What You Will Be Working On
As the Education and Fire Safety Intervention Lead, you will:
* Lead and manage a remote team of Education Officers and Fire Safety Intervention Practitioners.
* Oversee the development and delivery of fire and crime educational programmes and targeted interventions.
* Ensure quality assurance, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement across all education activities.
* Collaborate with internal and external partners to enhance the customer journey and maximise outcomes for children and young people.
* Support the Prevention Apprenticeship programme, volunteers, and heritage-linked education initiatives.
What Are We Looking For?
We're looking for a compassionate and driven leader who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and young people. You'll be someone who brings energy, empathy and clarity to your work—able to inspire and guide a remote team while maintaining strong relationships across diverse communities and educational settings.
You'll be confident in managing multiple priorities, demonstrates strong leadership, communication, and strategic thinking with a proactive mindset and a commitment to continuous improvement.
If you're someone who leads with purpose, adapts with resilience and believes in the power of education to transform lives, we'd love to hear from you.
Eligibility
* Level 3 qualification (NVQ/A-Level) or equivalent experience.
* Full UK driving licence.
* Significant experience working with children and young people.
* Is committed to safeguarding, equality, and diversity.
If you are an internal candidate, you must have discussed your application with your line manager and confirmed with them there are no outstanding issues of conduct or performance. This will be verified prior to shortlisting.
Assessment and selection:
The assessment and selection approach will be:
Stage 1 - week commencing 1st September 2025
Application & shortlisting (assessment of your supporting statement will be made against the essential criteria of the person specification)
Stage 2 - dates to be confirmed after shortlisting
As part of the second stage of the recruitment process, shortlisted candidates will participate in a structured group assessment using fishbowl-style exercises. These activities are designed to simulate real-world challenges and collaborative decision-making scenarios relevant to the role.
Assessments will be made against positive indicators for:
* Leadership and team management skills
* Safeguarding awareness and emotional intelligence
* Strategic thinking and problem-solving
* Communication and collaboration
Positive Indicators will be taken from the Code of Ethics and the NFCC Leadership Framework.
Stage 3 - dates to be confirmed
Role specific panel interview
Should you wish to have an informal discussion with regards to the role, please contact Aileen Wilson on or
Our Culture and Benefits
Here at Essex County Fire and Rescue Service we are committed to prioritising and promoting the wellbeing of our employees.
You can find out more about our benefits at
Important Information for Firefighter Pension Scheme Pensioners
If you are currently in receipt of a pension from the Firefighter Pension Scheme, please note that taking up this role may affect your pension. Under pension abatement rules, if your earnings in this role, when combined with your pension, exceed your pre-retirement salary (adjusted for inflation), your pension may be reduced.
For further guidance, please contact our Pensions team on or email mailbox.-
Safeguarding
Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
It is our policy to require all applicants for employment to disclose if you are currently being investigated by any regulatory body or have any decisions or sanctions pending or in progress in respect of your suitability to work for the Service.
You agree to inform the Service within 24 hours if you are subsequently investigated by any agency or organisation in relation to concerns about your behaviour towards children, young people or vulnerable adults.
The information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and will be considered only in relation to the appointment for which you are applying.
This role will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Disability Confident
We are an equal opportunities, Disability Confident, employer who welcomes applications from everyone and values diversity in our workplace. A commitment to promoting diversity and developing a work environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
As part of our offer to support all our candidates to perform to the best of their abilities during our recruitment and selection processes and we would like to let you know about a couple of support options you can access, should you wish to, including our employee forums, who are keen and willing to support all of our potential colleagues.
Asian Fire Services Association (AFSA), BEING (our LGBTQ+ employee support network), Christian Fellowship, Ethnic Minority Forum, Men's Forum, and our Women's Forum. In addition, we also have a female firefighters operational group.
Further to the above, the Service has a Digital Accessibility Inclusion Group (DAIG) that supports all colleagues to improve their digital skills and provides additional support and guidance to colleagues with neurodivergent strengths and struggles as a result of dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, dyspraxia etc. We want everyone to thrive at work, and so we encourage and enable people to access digital tools to help them perform at your best. The DAIG is a group of colleagues from across the Service that unite to support others as a result of their lived experience and desire to make a difference. They support people with a range of visible and invisible disabilities to identify and access digital workplace adjustments and solutions and may be able to assist with your application too.
Should you wish to discuss support, or access further information, from one of these groups, please contact Equality.-
You are also able to raise any queries or requests for support, including any adjustments you may require, at any stage of the process by email to -
You can find out more about Essex County Fire & Rescue Service via and about our vacancies and application processes via
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £41,771.00-£45,091.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Witham CM8 3HB