Community Safety Adviser

**Community Safety Adviser (CSA)**

**Community Safety Adviser’s (CSA) - 2 x vacancies (1x fixed term for 1 year and 1 x permanent)**

**Benefits**:

- Salary: £29,439 - £33,820 per annum, Grade 4
- Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week
- Location - Service Headquarters, Calcot, Reading
- Excellent annual leave allowance of 28 days, plus public holidays and, flexible working hours
- Superb Pension Schemes available
- Onsite gym and parking facilities

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS) has a reputation of excellence. We are seeking a talented, enthusiastic and driven individual to join our West Hub Prevention team.

This is a great opportunity to work for a Public Service provider that invests in the training, development and wellbeing of its employees. Our team operate within a welcoming, diverse and inclusive environment and offers flexible working arrangements so our teams can achieve a good work-life balance.

RBFRS provides prevention, protection and response across the county of Berkshire. It serves a diverse cultural population of 911,400 residents, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Together, we are committed to providing excellence in the prevention from fire, protection from fire, and response to fire and other emergencies for the people of Royal Berkshire.

**The key focus of this role is**:

- To provide direct support to the Station Managers within your allocated station hub area advising on all areas of community safety activity.
- To attend unitary, partner or stakeholder meetings in support to the service requirements and hub objective.
- To ensure that organisational activity and localised risk based activity is embedded and monitored in station delivery plans.
- To support the Safe and Well and Adult Referral Programme developing adult at risk awareness, information sharing and training through liaison with key agencies and organisations working with the vulnerable in our communities.
- To play a key role in ensuring the effective allocation of referrals and coordinating the delivery of home safe and well visits in your area.
- To maintain confidentiality in line with GDPR requirements and Safeguarding best practice as determined by Service policy and procedures.
- To work with key partner agencies to ensure the opportunities for reducing accidental and deliberate fires, road traffic collisions and water incidents are maximised through the development, co-ordination and delivery of effectively targeted Prevention initiatives and programmes.
- Establish, improve and maintain effective productive relationships with a network of community organisations e.g. minority groups, faith groups informing such groups of the Fire and Rescue Service agendas and any key prevention strategies.

**Key role requirements (knowledge, skills and experience)**:

- Able to cultivate effective relationships with a wide range of people based on trust and mutual respect.
- Ability to deal with problems that arise and manage through to resolution.
- Ability to work under pressure and prioritise workloads effectively and efficiently.
- Enthusiastic and energetic with a positive 'can do’ outlook.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to liaise at all levels.
- Ability to make decisions within own area of responsibility.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to effective cope with conflicting and complex demands and prioritise to ensure timely delivery of quality outcomes/projects.
- Excellent analytical, organisational and research skills.
- Safeguarding level 1 and 2.
- Holds and maintains a current EU driving licence.

**Anticipated start date: ASAP**

**It is anticipated that the assessment process will run**

**week commencing 15**th** May.**

The Behavioural Competency Framework allows us to easily identify the behaviours that drive successful performance and enables us to deliver an effective service. The behaviours detailed within the job profile will be assessed throughout the selection process.
- At Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, we want you to bring your whole self to work._
- Simply: Our community is varied and diverse. Our workforce should be too. _
- At Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service, everyone is welcome._