Community Safety officer
Salary £28,598 - £31,022
Contract Type-Permanent
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Do you want to make a difference in your community? Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service prides itself on the high standard of service it provides and every role has an important part to play in helping keep Staffordshire safe.
Every role in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, including those in the shared service, exists to support the overall aim of achieving a safer and more sustainable community. This can take many forms, including conducting Home Fire Risk Checks, marketing the service to the community, coordinating training, or taking calls in our contact centre.
As you can imagine, achieving our overall aim depends on a variety of people with a range of skills, backgrounds, and experiences.
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About the Opportunity
Community Safety Officer
An opportunity has become available for the position of Community Safety Officer within the Eastern Service Delivery Group (Tamworth Fire Station). This is an exciting opportunity to help make Staffordshire a safer place to be.
Salary: Grade 5 (£28,598 - £31,022)
Hours: 37 hours per week - Flexible working scheme is in operation
Duration: Permanent
Location: Eastern Service Delivery Group (ESDG)
About the role:
The aim of the role is to contribute to the implementation and effective delivery of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s (SFRS) Prevention, Partnership and Safeguarding Annual Service Delivery Plan, SFRS Prevention, Partnership and Safeguarding Strategy and SFRS Road Safety Delivery Plan.
Duties Include: (see full job description attached)
1. Focus on wider prevention delivery and on specifics such as extended Home Fire Safety Visits. This will include working with vulnerable individuals througha case management and extended visits. This could involve taking the lead and chairing meetings in relation to fire related concerns.
2. Gather evidence, record, and implement solutions to support members of our community.
3. Work alongside crews, volunteers, and partners to plan and deliver outcomes in an effective manner.
4. Increase the effectiveness of community engagement within local areas.
5. Be aware of prevention priorities and integrate these into all prevention activity.
6. Deliver and co-ordinate prevention initiatives on a range of topics, together with partners where required, as determined by the Prevent Delivery Lead and Central Prevent and Protect.
7. Following the delivery of initiatives by Prevention teams, support the evaluation, feedback, and delivery outcome process. Monitor the demand of incidents to enable informed decisions to be taken on future prevention activity.
8. Operate administration systems for the referral of concerns highlighted by technicians and operational crews, including recording and monitoring.
9. Represent SFRS at partnership meetings to promote prevention activities and share best practice/data, as commensurate with the role.
10. Carry out fire safety interventions when required, visiting children and young people who have been flagged as fire setters.
11. Support the delivery of prevention training to all staff, including at WT and On Call training courses.
12. Conducting Fire Safety Interventions as required
Person Specification:
You should have excellent communication, organisation, and IT skills. The ideal candidate should have experience of delivering and presenting to varied audiences, and have the ability to use intelligence and data to drive initiatives.
A full Driving Licence is essential and candidates should have access to own vehicle with suitable business use insurance.
Previous experience of Community Safety initiatives, working with key partners, and with vulnerable people, would be advantageous.
On call personnel wishing to apply, must ensure any revised declaration is approved by their Station Manager prior to submitting their application. HR will require confirmation from the Station Manager via email before considering the application.
Safeguarding
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment
Additional Information:
This vacancy is being advertised internally and externally.
Closing date for receipt of all applications is
Please apply by clicking on to our Internal Careers site.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check.
All communication regarding this vacancy will be issued via email, so please check your email account on a regular basis.
If you have any enquiries please contact:
Closing date: 22nd October 2025 Middday 12:00
Interview date: TBC
In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:
13. Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
14. Generous Pension Scheme
15. Access to Gyms & Fitness Advisor
16. Free Parking at Most Sites
17. Enhanced Maternity Package
18. Occupational Health
19. Well-being Champions
20. Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
21. Eye Tests
22. Flexible Working Scheme
23. The Firefighter Charity
24. Cycle Scheme
25. Blue Light Card
26. Flamesavers
27. Rewards for rescue
28. Say So
29. Development Programme
30. Trade Unions
31. Career Breaks
32. Physiotherapy
33. TRiM
34. Employment Network
35. Fostering Friendly
Safeguarding
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.
Please note if you are successful at interview and commence pre-employment checks this will include DBS, please see what this involves and the process via the below link:
Positive Action
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve.
Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.
We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-In support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.
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