Prevention Support Team Manager Professional 1C Temporary maternity cover Publish date: Closing date: Salary: £47,181-£49,282 Hours: 37 per week Overview West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) is the second largest fire and rescue service in England, serving an area of 902km square and a population of over 2.9 million people. ‘Our Strategy’ drives the people, professionalism and pride with which we serve our communities. An exciting opportunity has arisen to manage our Prevention Support Team, leading the Support Officers and Bookings Team, alongside colleagues in Development & Improvement and Delivery. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate extensive experience of leading, managing and developing people and in fostering a positive working environment. In this busy and varied role, you will be responsible for the performance of your team, prioritising, planning and allocating work aligned to ‘Our Strategy’ and Community Risk Management Plan (CRMP). You will be contributing to making the West Midlands safer, stronger and healthier, through implementing changes to improve service delivery for partnerships, prevention activities and education programmes. You will need to ensure that the changes and improvements align to Government legislation, statutory guidance, NFCC guidance, local authority campaigns, organisational policy and emerging trends. Key to success will be your ability to work collaboratively, developing and maintaining strong professional relationships with your team, the wider Prevention and Leadership Team, Operations and a range of internal and external stakeholders/partners. Responsibilities providing leadership, line management, support, direction, and development opportunities for the team to enable them to deliver against their roles and responsibilities management and allocation of workstreams to the appropriate teams and roles, based on risk, for completion within agreed timescales managing and reporting performance and for the team’s contribution to performance management processes managing capacity, capability, performance, and attendance of the team identification and management of risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and opportunities for partnership, prevention activities and education programmes management of budgets forming positive relationships with partners at a strategic level to agree mutually beneficial priorities and programmes of work and ensure that our priorities are recognised representing the service’s interests in a wide range of organisational and public settings creating and ensuring 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 Essential line management experience able to plan and prioritise own workload and that of others able 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 able 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 We offer a friendly working environment and benefits including: enhanced family leave benefits, including 52 weeks fully-paid maternity and adoption leave flexible and agile working arrangements on-site free gym facilities free parking. We also offer access to an in-house occupational health facility - including occupational health and fitness advisors, sports therapists, physiotherapists, cognitive behavioural therapy practitioners and counsellors. In addition, employees have access to: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme wellbeing programmes ‘blue light’ 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. WMFS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect the same of every staff member. Successful candidates will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including - where applicable - relevant level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, qualifications, medical clearance, identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references. How to apply 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. To apply please use the below link: https://fa-ertg-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/jobs/preview/732