The Service & Team:
This role is within the Prevention, Protection and Safeguarding (PPS) function of Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) and part of Cornwall Council's Safer Communities Directorate
The Role:
Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service is seeking a Resourcing and Delivery Prevention Manager (Grade 5) to provide leadership across the Home Safety, Engagement, Safeguarding and Partnership functions.
The post holder will be responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing the delivery of CFRS prevention activity across Cornwall, ensuring activity is evidence led, person centred and aligned with legislative requirements, national guidance and CFRS strategic priorities.
The role includes deputising for the Prevention, Protection and Safeguarding Area Manager when required, providing leadership continuity and operational resilience. You will lead teams, manage performance and resources, and work collaboratively with internal departments and external partners to reduce risk and improve community safety outcomes.
CFRS is committed to the eithical principles set ou in the core code of Ethics which underpin our recruitment processes. Core Code of Ethics.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This is a full time post (37 hours across Monday - Friday), conditioned to Green book terms of conditions.
The post will be based at Service HQ, Tolvaddon, but travel across Cornwall and sometimes further, will be required. A flexible approach to working is essential, including occasional evening and weekend working.
What you’ll need to succeed:
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong, values led leadership with a proven track record of managing diverse teams and delivering high quality prevention and safeguarding services in a community focused environment. They will bring deep knowledge of safeguarding, risk reduction and fire sector or wider community safety practice, alongside the ability to translate legislation, guidance and best practice into effective local delivery. Success in the application will depend on evidencing strategic thinking, partnership working, performance management and clear, confident communication at a senior level, as well as resilience, adaptability and the credibility to deputise for the Area Manager when required while maintaining a person centred, inclusive approach to protecting communities.
To be eligible for this role you must ensure you:
The Assessment Framework for this role will include
Role Profile - Resourcing and Delivery Prevention Manager
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact
Area Manager Nicola Bottomley nicola.bottomley@fire.cornwall.gov.uk 07973176270
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
A unique Council that has secured the UK's first devolution deal for a rural County! We deliver services to more than half a million local people and to over five million visitors a year.
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With a competitive employee reward package that attracts, retains and motivates our employees; open plan working environments in most offices, good business systems and a can do culture where talented people thrive, Cornwall Council is a great place to work.
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Services: Care for the elderly, children’s safeguarding, libraries, road maintenance, fire and rescue service, recycling, parks, street cleaning, countryside management, social housing, town planning, tourism support and trading standards.
We deliver these services through our employees who work directly for the Council and through our many other Council owned companies and organisations; CORMAC, Cornwall Housing, Tempus Leisure, Newquay Airport and Cornwall Development Company.
We also have close links with Cornwall’s health organisations, colleges and universities and work closely with the police, town and parish councils and the voluntary sector.
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