Head of Community Safety and Engagement – Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

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Head of Community Safety and Engagement – Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service
37 Hours Per Week (Monday – Friday)
Permanent
Joint Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 8PP

Do you have a passion for working with people, making a difference, and improving people’s lives? Are you an outstanding leader, someone who lives and works by our Values and someone who wants to work for a progressive, caring, public-serving organisation? If so, you might be the perfect candidate for the role of Head of Community Safety and Engagement!

Responsibilities

  • Lead the delivery of fire prevention initiatives as well as education and youth and community engagement activities.
  • Provide direction and innovation to design and deliver activities which seek to improve engagement with communities, their understanding of us and to support workforce diversity.
  • Close working with other service delivery departments to ensure community safety and engagement activities are high quality and aligned to strategic objectives.
  • Provide direction and leadership to a diverse team of specialists; designing and evaluating services based on data, evidence and evaluation of activities, to ensure that the team are reaching our target audiences, and are seeking continuous improvement from the activities they undertake.

Further Information

We are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments.

NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and/or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process.

Selection Process

The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years to be eligible for a Police Vetting check. Candidates who have been successful at the initial shortlisting stage will be asked to produce a report (title to be confirmed) and take part in a stakeholder panel and, if successful at that stage, a final interview process.

Timeline

  • Application Closing date: Monday 20th October 2025 at 0900hrs
  • Stakeholder Panel: 10th November 2025
  • Interview date: 20th November 2025

Notes

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Location:
East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£150,000 - £200,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT & Technology

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