Deputy Health & Safety Manager – Devon Fire and Rescue Service

Deputy Health & Safety Manager – Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Deputy Health & Safety Manager to join our Organisational Assurance department based at our Service Headquarters. You’ll join us on a Permanent contract working 37 hours per week. In return you will receive a salary starting at £42,839.00 rising to £46,142 (gross) per annum.

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is the largest non-metropolitan Fire and Rescue Service in England. We provide prevention, protection and response services across the counties of Devon and Somerset.

Our vision is that together, we will work to end preventable fire and rescue emergencies, creating a safer world for you and your family. Keeping people safe is what we do, and we owe our fantastic reputation to our highly skilled and motivated workforce.

The Deputy Health & Safety Manager provides a critical role in the Service, working with the Health & Safety Manager, and leading a team of Health & Safety Officers, to support colleagues across the Service to comply with health and safety legislation.

The role ensures the provision of timely and effective delivery of assurance of compliance to senior leadership teams to support continuous improvement and inform targeted interventions to improve safety.

The Deputy Health & Safety Manager provides cover for the Health & Safety Manager in their absence, including representing the Service at regional and national forums and liaising with the Health & Safety Executive as required.

• Provision of professional advice:
  As a professional subject matter expert, provide proactive and reactive health, safety and welfare advice on complex issues to senior and middle managers in order to attain and maintain statutory conformity.
• Develop policy and provide assurance of compliance:
  Manage the development and review of health and safety related policies and guidance and develop and undertake audits against them.
• Promote and embed a safety culture:
  Provide a pivotal role promoting, facilitating, embedding and continually evaluating the safety culture within the Service. Work with managers and key stakeholders in organisational learning and communications and engagement to ensure that strategic learning points identified through significant safety event investigations are embedded into operational and organisational practice and that staff concerns relating to health and safety are acted upon promptly and effectively.
• Lead and support the Health & Safety team:
  Provide support and direction to the Health & Safety Officers and casual contract safety event investigation officers. Deliver the team’s plan of work, assessing and prioritising workloads and delegating as appropriate. Support the Health & Safety Manager in developing and delivering the Health & Safety strategy.

Closing date: 2359hrs 22 February 2026

Please apply directly on our website.