Building Fire Safety Advisor

2 weeks ago


Canterbury, United Kingdom Kent Fire & Rescue Service Full time

**Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) **has an exciting opportunity available for a **Building Fire Safety Advisor **to join our team in **Canterbury. **You will join us on a **full-time, permanent basis, **and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£26,457 - £29,339 per annum (commencing salary £26,457).**

**Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service**

Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers, we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.

**About the Building Fire Safety Advisor role**:
Are you an enthusiastic, outgoing team player, looking for a rewarding role, supporting the Kent and Medway business community to provide a safe environment from fire for their customers.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity for you to liaise and engage with a variety of stakeholders, customers, and diverse communities to enhance their knowledge and understanding of fire safety, business resilience and continuity, to help their businesses to thrive.

The successful applicant will respond to enquiries from businesses/responsible persons with regards to fire safety, work with partner agencies, in identifying and disseminating information and knowledge relating to fire safety risks and businesses’ regulatory responsibilities. You will also deliver educational messages through a multitude of different platforms, including in person, social media outlets, seminars, as well as contributing to designing campaigns and risk reduction initiatives.

Although the post holder will be based at Canterbury, they must be available to work from various locations across the County. You will be required to travel to other offices and locations, therefore a UK driving licence is essential.

**Waht you'll do as our Building Fire Safety Advisor**:

- Provide advice to businesses
- Attend workshops and seminars to support delivery of engagement opportunities for business within the community
- Information sharing and sign posting to national and technical guidance
- Working collaboratively with The Service’s engagement and communication teams to create content for web pages for internal and external customers including but not limited to, fire safety risk reduction initiative and any activities as appropriate and support other defined fire safety work streams

**What you'll bring as our** **Building Fire Safety Advisor**:

- Ability to manage your own time effectively and be able to quickly prioritise workload
- Ability to work to agreed deadlines, in line with set Local Performance Indicators (LPI’s)
- Ability to operate individually, as well as part of a team
- Ability to check your own work and good attention to detail
- Confidence in engaging with a diverse range of audiences
- Enthusiasm and be highly motivated

**Closing date**:midnight** **on Tuesday 2nd April 2024**

Interviews will take place on **24th, 25th** and **26th April 2024**.

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our **Building Fire Safety Advisor **please click ‘**apply’** today, we’d love to hear from you
- Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer._
- Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees, and volunteers are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and supporting children, young people, and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people, and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks. _



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