Watch Manager Opportunities May 2025

Watch Manager 

We have an exciting opportunity for a number of Watch Managers to play a pivotal role across the service. If you feel you can deliver real and sustainable benefits for the public, transforming our service delivery, we would like to hear from you.

This role requires strong leadership and communication skills and the ability to lead, manage and develop others, and deliver the Service’s strategy through tactical planning.

To be successful in this position candidates will have an innovative approach to deliver plans across the Service to achieve positive results. With a focus on collaboration, you will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to form positive working relationships and develop teams to improve performance. You will recognise the importance of a diverse workforce and promote a culture of equality and inclusion.

The NFCC Leadership Framework includes four quadrants which are detailed below:

Personal impact ensures we value, respect, and promote equality and diversity. It’s about being a positive presence on others, having personal integrity and an ability to self-manage. The focus is on self and how a manager uses leadership to create a positive, open-working environment focusing on ethics and wellbeing.

Outstanding leadership is about building high performing teams and developing people to their full potential. It’s about communicating with integrity, being open and honest to foster trust and building collaborative working partnership. An ambassador and role model for the Fire and Rescue Service. The focus is on others and how a manager uses leadership to create high performing teams.

Organisational effectiveness is ensuring everything we do is linked to organisational plans and values. It’s driving the mission and ensuring decisions and actions are beneficial to the customer. The focus is on the organisation and how a manager uses leadership to continuously improve, innovate and change.

Service delivery is about delivering high quality services now and into the future. It’s about intelligent problem solving with an outcome focused approach, continuous improvement and value for money to our customers. The focus is on task and how a manager uses leadership to produce outcome focused results which meet customer needs.

Should you be successful in passing the full process, you may not be posted immediately. If this happens, you will go on a holding list for 12 months.

 Salaries for Watch Manager are as follows

Development £42,672
Competent (A) £43,857
Competent (B) £46,707

Eligibility

The definition of eligibility is contained within the Recruitment pack.

Location

The roles will be based across the county of North Yorkshire.

CV Template

If you do not currently have a CV, we have created a basic template to use to create a basic CV to complement your application. It is a mandated requirement to attach a CV with your application.  Basic CV Template.doc

Recruitment Pack

To assist you with your application and throughout the process, we have included a Recruitment Pack which can be accessed here.

 Key dates

•  Closing date for applications – 16:00 Friday 6th June 2025
• Familiarisation event – 10:00 – 11:00 Monday 19th May 2025, please click here to register
•  Operational assessments – to take place W/c 23rd June 2025
•  Strength based interview assessments – to take place W/c 14th July 2025

Positive Action and Reasonable Adjustments

North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to the principles of fairness and equality and all applications will be treated in a fair and equal manner. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support submitting your application form, please contact TalentDevelopmentAdmin@northyorkshire.police.uk

DBS/Vetting

Checks will be required for anyone new to Service, transferring or being promoted into a NYFRS Supervisory Manager post. NPPV vetting may also be required for certain job roles, as specified.

Should you wish to discuss the role requirements in more detail please contact TalentDevelopmentAdmin@northyorkshire.police.uk.