Community Safety and Partnership Manager

Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue; Aylesbury; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Local Government Pension Scheme

Good Annual Leave Entitlement

Employee Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

Occupational Health

Onsite Gym Facilities

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue is seeking a Community Safety and Partnership Manager to lead a prevention-focused team and build influential partnerships across health and social care. The role drives community safety outcomes, using data to target interventions and improve services for the vulnerable.

The post supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements, with a permanent, full-time contract and a salary in the region of £46,804–£56,565 per year.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining effective partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.
• Experience leading, supervising, or line managing staff, including coaching and performance management.
• Ability to assess risk, make informed decisions, and manage complex or sensitive situations involving vulnerable people.
• Ability to use data, insight, and evidence to inform decisions and improve service delivery.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills; ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and organise work under competing demands.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop the Community Safety Coordinators with supervision and performance management.
• Develop and strengthen partnerships with healthcare and adult social care partners.
• Identify opportunities for partners to support prevention activity and improve referral pathways.
• Use data and prevention insights to inform priorities and decisions.
• Develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate targeted community safety initiatives.
• Coordinate hoarding and self-neglect responses with multi-agency partners.
• Support strategic prevention projects and campaigns.
• Monitor the effectiveness and value of Prevention activity and partnerships.

Skills

Partnership development

Team leadership

Risk assessment

Data-driven decision making

Communication skills

Planning & organisation

Education

Higher-level qualification (A level/Apprenticeship/NVQ3)

IOSH Managing Safely (or willingness to achieve)

AET (or willingness to achieve)

Job description

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated Community Safety and Partnership Manager to help shape the next stage of our Prevention function. This is an opportunity to lead a team, develop influential partnerships, and turn those relationships into meaningful prevention activity.

If you are a partnership-focused leader who wants to make a real difference to the safety, health, and wellbeing of our communities, we want to hear from you.

Community Safety and Partnership Manager

Job reference: VAC000459

Location: Brigade Headquarters, Stocklake, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP20 1BD

Salary: £46,804 - £56,565 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-Time, 37 hours per week

Package: Local Government Pension Scheme | Good Annual Leave Entitlement | Employee Benefits | Employee Assistance Programme | Occupational Health | Onsite Gym Facilities

About us:

Buckinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service serves a population of more than 800,000 in the Southeast of England. Around 400 firefighters operate from 19 fire stations from the outskirts of London to the South Midlands. We employ around 100 specialist support staff, from ICT to fire prevention. We are a diverse, welcoming community - will you join us?

Our Service is only as good as its people. When our employees are engaged and supported, our Service thrives. This why we support flexible and hybrid working.

About the role:

Fighting fires is only part of the work of the work we do. Our Prevention Team works with communities and partners to reduce risk, prevent incidents, and protect those most vulnerable. Partnership working is central to this approach, helping us extend our reach and create better outcomes for people across Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

Role responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop the Community Safety Coordinators, providing effective supervision, coaching, performance management, and support
• Develop and strengthen partnerships with healthcare and adult social care partners, alongside identifying wider partnership opportunities that support community safety outcomes and improve outcomes for vulnerable people and communities
• Identify opportunities for partners to support prevention activity, increasing our reach and improving referral pathways into the Service
• Use community risk, fire, and prevention data to identify trends, inform priorities, and support evidence-based decision making
• Develop, deliver, monitor, and evaluate targeted community safety and prevention initiatives
• Coordinate the Service's response to hoarding and self-neglect, working with partners to support multi-agency interventions
• Support strategic prevention projects, safeguarding initiatives, seasonal campaigns, and wider Prevention priorities
• Monitor the effectiveness and value of Prevention activity, including the impact of partnership working
• Represent the Service professionally when communicating across partnership forums and external networks.

We are looking for someone...

• With experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships to achieve shared outcomes
• With experience of leading, supervising, or line managing staff, including allocating work, coaching, and managing performance
• Who can assess risk, make informed decisions, and manage complex or sensitive situations involving vulnerable people
• Who can use data, insight, and evidence to inform decisions and improve service delivery
• With excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills, and the ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
• Who can plan, prioritise, and organise work, manage competing demands, and work independently
• Who is a resilient, adaptable, and positive leader, prepared to, inspire, challenge, and develop others
• Who shares our commitment to keeping people safe and supporting those most at risk

They must have...

• A full UK driving licence
• A higher-level qualification, A level, Apprenticeship, or NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
• IOSH Managing Safely, or willingness to work towards
• AET, or willingness to work towards

Application closing date: 8th November 2026

We are an equal opportunity employer. Applications from people of any colour, race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability are welcome.

If there are any adaptions or adjustments we can make to help you in your application, or with our recruitment process, please contact us via e-mail or telephone.

Everyone who works with us is required to have a DBS check.

Abatement and Protected Pension

If are in receipt of a Firefighter's pension, before taking up employment with Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes Fire Authority, you are required to notify Human Resources as Abatement Rules may apply.

No agencies please.