Safety and Partnerships Officer

We are looking for a Home Safety and Partnership Officer to join our Community Safety team at Service Headquarters (please note 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 £38,220 rising annually to £40,777 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.

• 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.

• Extensive demonstrable experience of managing and leadership of individuals to include, delivery of performance management and capability reviews, motivating, support, delegation, coaching and mentoring and promoting an inclusive culture of equality, diversity and fairness.
• Ability to set targets, provide support and to manage performance effectively.
• Comprehension of National and Local best practice and procedures with the ability to implement and update critical changes as emerging risks or local challenges arise within a Prevention Framework.
• Proven ability to develop, deliver and evaluate / quality assure programmes and resources.
• Ability to risk assess issues and events and allocate appropriate staff or resource to ensure accurate and adequate resolution of issues.
• Experience of demonstrating emotional resilience when exposed to situations and sensitive information (such as safeguarding and emergency services working).