Job title: Deputy Chief Fire Officer
Reporting to: Chief Fire Officer
Salary: £140,000 – £150,000 (depending upon experience)
Location: Service HQ, Kelvedon
Closing date: Monday 9 December 2024
The Role
As our next Deputy Chief Fire Officer, you will bring the best leadership to our organisation – leadership that encourages new ways of thinking, collaborative working and an inclusive approach to everything we do. You will play a leading role in continuing our cultural transformation while understanding our history and heritage.
The Deputy Chief Fire Officer will be a key advisor to the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner and the Chief Fire Officer, pivotal in creating a positive, safe and supportive organisational climate, ensuring that the values of Essex County Fire and Rescue Service are fully embedded in everything we do.
You will influence the future plan and direction for the organisation and ensure the continued development of ECFRS. We are looking for a confident individual who can operate successfully in a corporate environment across organisational boundaries, enhancing our close working relationships with councils, other emergency services and wider partners.
The Right Person
We welcome applications from candidates with substantive experience of organisational transformation, strategic management and operational command.
To be successful, you will be forward-thinking with a proven ability to provide top-level coaching and mentoring to senior management team members to ensure their development and success.
With well-developed communication skills, you will establish and maintain effective partnerships with all relevant agencies and communities, and you will have solid experience of developing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders at authority, local, national and international levels.
You must demonstrate an ability to embrace and lead change, build effective partnerships at a strategic level, and deliver an inclusive leadership style across the service.
You will have previous experience within a Fire and Rescue Service working at Brigade Manager / Assistant Chief Fire Officer level. Operational experience is desirable, as is proven experience of commanding operational incidents. You will ideally have relevant accreditation (e.g., MAGIC/ICL4) to be qualified to take responsibility for strategic (gold) command during a major incident or civil emergency.
Job Purpose
To protect and save life, property and the environment by providing strategic leadership for our Prevention, Protection, and Response services. Shape and direct the activities of the Service. Proactively collaborate with partners to ensure the best outcomes for the public of Essex.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Responsible for effective, efficient, and safe delivery of response services ensuring legal duties are achieved and identified performance measures met.
2. Responsible for effectively discharging responsibilities under the Fire Safety Act 2005, including duties under the Building Safety Regulator and subsequent changes arising from the Fire Safety Bill.
3. Responsible for the effective discharging of legal responsibilities to prevent harm to the public through prevention activities in compliance with the Children’s Act and safeguarding.
4. Ensure risk information is relevant, accurate, and available to crews, and effective arrangements are in place for exercising and familiarisation of known risk.
5. Ensure effective relationships with other Category 1 responders and embed the principles of JESIP and Joint Operational Procedures (JOP) and National Operational Guidance within the Service.
6. Act as principal advisor to the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) on matters of operational service delivery.
To apply for this job please visit faerfield.co.uk/essex-fire-and-rescue and click on the Apply button at the bottom of the page. You will be directed to an application form – please fill out the requested information. When prompted, please submit your CV and a supporting statement (no more than two sides of A4 each). If you would prefer to submit your supporting statement in a video format, please send the video in an mp4 format to rpowell@faerfield.co.uk.
With your CV, please also provide the names and contact details of two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be contacted if you reach the final stages, and we will not contact referees without your permission.
Your supporting statement should clearly set out your relevant skills, knowledge and experience and what you can offer that will make a difference to our Service and the communities that we serve. Please complete your application by midday on Monday 9 December 2024.
Application Timeline
Closing date: Monday 9 December 2024 at midday.
Shortlisting takes place: Monday 9 December 2024.
Expected date for shortlisted candidates to take psychometric assessments: Tuesday 10 – Monday 16 December.
Selection and assessment date: Monday 16 December and Wednesday 18 December.
Disability Confident
We are an equal opportunities, Disability Confident employer who welcomes applications from everyone and values diversity in our workplace.
A commitment to promoting diversity and developing a work environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process and all applications will be considered solely on merit.
Safeguarding
Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Fire and Rescue Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
It is our policy to require all applicants for employment to disclose if you are currently being investigated by any regulatory body or have any decisions or sanctions pending or in progress in respect of your suitability to work for the Service.
The information you provide will be treated as strictly confidential and will be considered only in relation to the appointment for which you are applying. This role will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Contact Information
For a confidential discussion about the role please contact:
Sean Anderson
Email: sanderson@faerfield.co.uk
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Roger Russell
Email: rrussell@faerfield.co.uk
Tel: 0121 312 3755
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