Training and Resource Planner

Training and Resourcing Planner (Resourcing Planner)

Salary: £30024 - £33699 plus on call allowances.

Hours: 36.25
hours per week

Contract:
Permanent

Location:
Hybrid /
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters, Swinton

The Role:

This exciting opportunity is ideal for somebody who is committed and willing to go the extra mile to help support our organisation’s development, as well as their own professional and personal development.

The opportunity involves providing daily co-ordination of all operational resources across Greater Manchester, giving organisational and general support for colleagues and external customers around operational cover within GMFRS. This will include managing rosters and availability of operational staff in a highly effective and busy team and working alongside all levels of operational staff across the organisation.

About You:

Our ideal candidate will be passionate about helping people. Having excellent communication skills is essential for this position as you will be dealing with internal employees and external customers on a regular basis. You need to be able to use your own initiative when it comes to implementing new ideas that help with the development of our team as well as our future workforce.

If you are keen to learn, enjoy working in a team, enjoy a challenge and have good people skills, this would be the perfect opportunity for you to develop and build the route to a career in Emergency Response and resource management.

If you welcome responsibility, are highly organised and are able to prioritise tasks effectively and efficiently, we would love to hear from you!

Some of the main responsibilities include:

• The daily management of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Services operational resources to meet organisational need on a daily basis.
• Liaison with senior officers to discuss and advise on upcoming and forecasted resource issues.
• The collation and approval of all types of leave requests including Special Leave, Maternity and Paternity, whilst maintaining organisational operational cover.
• To support the team managers in the analysis of all areas affecting resourcing and the operational establishment, including the delivery of monthly statistical data to senior officers.
• Liaison with other directorates in relation to a range of areas including the calculation of retirement/resignation leaving dates, medicals, modified duties and any other procedure as required.
• Responsible for basic system administration of the Resourcing software (Gartan Roster) management of the shared mailbox and dealing with telephone queries.
• Shift work based around the following hours  and . Weekend working required on a rota basis with shift allowance enhancements to pay.

In return for your efforts we can offer a fantastic working environment with a motivated team who are committed to delivering an efficient and effective service.

About us:

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is one of the largest Fire and Rescue Services in the UK with over 2,000 employees and 41 fire stations. Our purpose is to ensure that we save, protect and improve the quality of life of the people in Greater Manchester.

As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including;
Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS);
Waste and Recourses;
Environment;
Work and Skills;
Research;
Public Sector Reform;
Police, Crime and Criminal Justice;
Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.

We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

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