Fire Cadets Manager (Fire Safety)
The Role
Post: Fire Cadets Manager (Fire Safety)
Salary: £36,332 per annum
Grade: FRS D
Salary range: £36,332 – £41,597 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Application closing date: Thursday 28 April 2022 at 16:00 GMT
Fire Cadets is a national organisation for young people aged 13-17 delivered by London Fire Brigade at local fire stations across London, and is one of London’s newest unformed youth organisations that is expanding fast. It aims to provide young people with a sense of purpose and belonging, great life experiences, self-confidence, effective presentation and communication skills, teamwork opportunities, progression paths, and nationally recognised qualifications.
Following receipt of funding from the Mayor of London, LFB Fire Cadets has completed a large expansion of the provision, enabling us to open a Fire Cadets unit to serve every London Borough. In order to continue to deliver this service to all young people across London, we are now looking for an experienced, committed, and dedicated person with a passion for youth engagement to be responsible for supervising the day to day delivery of LFB’s Fire Cadets provision.
As ‘Fire Cadets Manager’ you will be working alongside one other manager within the Fire Cadets Team and will be responsible for overseeing half of the Fire Cadets operation. This includes having direct line management responsibility for a team of Fire Cadets Coordinators, as well as ensuring a consistent approach to recruitment of young people and adult volunteers, training and development, and delivery of the Fire Cadets provision across London.
The successful candidate will need to be an articulate and confident team player, who is also self-motivated, enthusiastic, and innovative. You will need to have first class interpersonal skills to enable you to liaise effectively with staff at all levels of the Brigade, members of the public, young people, funders, partners, and representatives of external organisations.
You must have proven experience of working with young people, community, and voluntary sectors, and of managing, monitoring, training, and developing a team of staff and volunteers. Most importantly you will need to demonstrate a commitment to ensuring consideration of diversity and inclusion runs through everything you do. Excellent knowledge of and/or previous involvement in a uniformed youth organisation would be preferable.
While this role is based at London Fire Brigade Headquarters in Southwark, there is flexibility to work from identified Youth Services Hubs across the city. You will be required to supervise, and quality assure, the delivery of Fire Cadets units and events at various locations around London. Therefore, this role will involve working a flexible 35-hour week with regular weekly evening and weekend working, and the opportunity for occasional overtime. There is also a requirement to travel for this role outside of London on occasions to contribute to national development work for UK Fire Cadets.
This is a busy and rewarding role in an exciting time for LFB Fire Cadets – are you ready for it?
Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the job description.
Benefits of working for LFB
- 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Option Absence Scheme
- Flexible working including job share
- Welfare Scheme
- Use of Brigade Medical Adviser/physios
- Season ticket loans
- Equality Support Groups
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to access affordable accommodation
Assessment Overview
As part of the online application form, candidates must provide evidence to address the following selection criteria:
Selection Criteria 1 – Experience of working with children, young people, and families, including those identified as vulnerable or at-risk by other agencies.
Selection Criteria 2 – Experience of monitoring and analysing team performance to improve service delivery and ensure continuous high standards of practice are maintained.
Selection Criteria 3 – Ability to co-ordinate a peripatetic workforce to ensure consistency of approach to achieve organisational objectives.
Selection Criteria 4 – A good understanding of Youth Services’ delivery and uniformed youth organisations across the UK.
Your application will be sifted based on the responses provided to the above criteria and shortlisted candidates will be invited to stage 2.
Stage 2
Assessment for this role is due to take place late May/early June. Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment date, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements.
Please note: Should you be shortlisted you may need to be able to conduct an interview over Microsoft Teams (a video conferencing service). You will be asked to provide relevant contact details for that to take place if shortlisted.
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications cannot be accepted.
Please note any correspondence received from us will be via e-mail and sent to the address you provide on your application form. We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London.
The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people’s age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. 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.
Additional Information
In line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed by successful candidates, which will include a basic criminal records check. Successful candidate will be required to declare any convictions for offences which are not spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and any offer of employment is subject to the LFC receiving a criminal records disclosure which it considers satisfactory. Successful candidates should apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to get a copy of their criminal record and share the original disclosure certificate with the LFC. The check will only show convictions that are not ‘spent’. It will cost the successful candidates £23 (current charge) and usually takes up to 14 days.
