Public Safety Officer

**Location: Craven - Please note there is an expectation to travel and work within craven fire/police estates.**

**Salary: Grade 7 SCP 22 (£31,364) plus 13.5% shift allowance**

**Contract: Permanent - Green Book**

**Shift Pattern**:9-week rotating shift - 3 early shifts 08:00 till 16:00, 3 late shifts 13:00 till 22:00 and then 3 days off (early shifts are 30 minutes shorter on Saturdays). Overall, this calculates to a 37-hour work week averaged out across 9 weeks.**

Public Safety Officer Job Description

We are proud to announce that we are looking to appoint 3 Public Safety Officers, to work in rural areas in the Craven area of North Yorkshire.

Public Safety Officers are uniformed individuals who represent North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, North Yorkshire Police and Yorkshire Ambulance Service in rural areas. Each officer is trained in a range of skills that aim to protection individuals, families, and communities from a diverse range of harm for example, crime, antisocial behaviour, falls or a domestic fire in the home. These roles are hosted within the Prevention, Early Intervention and Safeguarding department of North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.

The role is a vocation in its own right. It provides a unique approach to resolving community safety matters by working collaboratively. You will be key to developing sustainable and strong working relationships with partners. The main aim is to keep our communities safe so they are less likely to need an acute response. Your responsibilities will include:

- Attending calls made from the public to Yorkshire Ambulance Service which are appropriate for the roles level of training.
- Dealing with Police safety matters that don’t require an immediate emergency response.
- Delivering a range of practical harm reduction interventions.
- Promoting safety interventions and delivering education to a diverse range of community groups and individuals who have been identified as most at risk of harm.
- Completing multi-agency home safety visits.
- Resolving complex neighbourhood policing issues.
- Working with the local Anti-Social Behaviour caseworker.
- Integrating within the neighbourhood policing team.
- Assisting with completing neighbourhood enquiries (non-emergency 101 calls made to police).

The early intervention work that the Public Safety Officers carry out reduces demand and impact on the 3 emergency services, as well as reduce demand of key partners within the public, private, and voluntary sector, and their local communities.

**Online Engagement Event**

**Online event: Please register via the link - **Register here** - to attend on Monday 4th March 2024.**

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Please see some suggested reading below to learn more about the NYFRS Code of Ethics, and the Community Risk Profile:

- **Core Code of Ethics****:

- **Community Risk Profile**
- Experience of encouraging other to learn and develop to maximize potential.
- Excellent communications and interpersonal skills with an ability to network, influence, and negotiate with partners and our communities, to deliver positive neighbourhood interventions in demanding situations.
- Adaptability and resilience, with the ability to deal effectively and calmly with conflict management, and challenging situations that may arise.
- Good team working skills both internally and with external partners, and an ability to integrate effectively into different cross-functional work teams.
- Self-motivation, with the ability to prioritise their workload, and work without close supervision.
- Public speaking skills / experience.
- Experience of designing, developing, and delivering learning and development sessions.
- An appropriate First Aid qualification would be desirable although not essential. However, if no formal training qualification is possessed there would be an expectation that the post holder would work towards this.

**Working for us - what we can offer you**

Working for the emergency services is truly rewarding, and we want to inspire all colleagues to achieve their full potential. Everything we do has a direct impact to the service our organisation delivers, and each of us contributes to ensuring our communities continue to feel safe.

You’ll be welcomed into an organisation that is committed to ensuring everyone is treated fairly and supported equally. We value different perspectives, skills and experiences and we care about the well-being of our staff, and actively support people so they can perform to their best.

In addition, we offer a range of benefits including:

- Staff support networks
- Training and development
- Excellent government pension scheme
- Access to onsite Health and Wellbeing services
- 24 days holiday entitlement, increasing to 30 days with length of service (plus bank holidays)
- Access to discounts at major retailers
- Unison - recognised trade union
- Inclusion and Diversity support networks

For further information please contact Vicky Coe Head of Early Interventio