Area Commander/ Head of Service

Networking Women in the Fire Service; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

As the Area Commander / Head of Service, reporting to theStrategic Management Team, you’ll be a Senior Leader of the Fire and Rescue Service.

As a member of Community Protection’s Head of Service team, you will also seek to achieve collective outcomes for our communities across wider Community Protection services including Trading Standards, Community Safety, Public Health, County Resilience, Crisis Management and Humanitarian Operations.

Working with a close-knit and supportive team you will be responsible for:

1. Shaping and directing future service provision and optimising the use of resources.
2. Delivering the Community Risk Management Plan (with a focus on prevention) and collaborating with partners to embed this plan across the council, partners and blue light services.
3. Supporting the ongoing evolution of a corporate culture which is inclusive, open, respectful, and free of prejudice; and promoting the organisation as an employer of choice with a reputation for excellence in leadership, standards, training, health & wellbeing.
4. Enhancing the organisation’s project delivery capability so that strategies can be transformed into deliverable projects that effectively improve outcomes for residents.