Community Safety Officer Cannock-Temporary
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service
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Benefits offered by this job
Job summary
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service in Cannock is seeking a Community Safety Officer on a temporary basis. The role focuses on prevention delivery, extended Home Fire Safety Visits and working with partners to improve community safety and engagement.
The role requires a full driving licence with access to own vehicle for business use and involves delivering prevention training, chairing meetings and coordinating initiatives with partners. Closing date and DBS checks apply.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication, organisation and IT skills.
- Experience delivering and presenting to varied audiences.
- Ability to use intelligence and data to drive initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to wider prevention delivery and Home Fire Safety Visits.
- Gather evidence, record and implement solutions for the community.
- Work with crews, volunteers and partners to plan and deliver outcomes.
- Increase community engagement and integrate prevention priorities into activities.
- Coordinate and deliver prevention initiatives with partners as required.
- Support evaluation and feedback after initiatives and monitor demand for incidents.
- Operate referral and recording systems for concerns raised by technicians and crews.
Skills
Job description
Location
Cannock
Minimum salary
Not applicable
Maximum salary
Not applicable
Rank
Staff
Grade
Grade 5
Hours per week
37
Part/full time
Full Time
Type of contract
Temporary
Length of employment
3-6 months
Role profile
Job advert
Salary: Grade 5 (£28,598 - £31,022)
Contract Type: Temporary (3-6 months)
Do you want to make a difference in your community? Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service prides itself on the high standard of service it provides and every role has an important part to play in helping keep Staffordshire safe.
Every role in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, including those in the shared service, exists to support the overall aim of achieving a safer and more sustainable community. This can take many forms, including conducting Home Fire Risk Checks, marketing the service to the community, coordinating training, or taking calls in our contact centre.
As you can imagine, achieving our overall aim depends on a variety of people with a range of skills, backgrounds, and experiences.
An opportunity has become available for the position of Community Safety Officer within the Western Service Delivery Group (Cannock Fire Station). This is an exciting opportunity to help make Staffordshire a safer place to be.
The aim of the role is to contribute to the implementation and effective delivery of Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's (SFRS) Prevention, Partnership and Safeguarding Annual Service Delivery Plan, SFRS Prevention, Partnership and Safeguarding Strategy and SFRS Road Safety Delivery Plan.
- Focus on wider prevention delivery and on specifics such as extended Home Fire Safety Visits. This will include working with vulnerable individuals through case management and extended visits. This could involve taking the lead and chairing meetings in relation to fire related concerns.
- Gather evidence, record, and implement solutions to support members of our community.
- Work alongside crews, volunteers, and partners to plan and deliver outcomes in an effective manner.
- Increase the effectiveness of community engagement within local areas.
- Be aware of prevention priorities and integrate these into all prevention activity.
- Deliver and co-ordinate prevention initiatives on a range of topics, together with partners where required, as determined by the Prevent Delivery Lead and Central Prevent and Protect.
- Following the delivery of initiatives by Prevention teams, support the evaluation, feedback, and delivery outcome process. Monitor the demand of incidents to enable informed decisions to be taken on future prevention activity.
- Operate administration systems for the referral of concerns highlighted by technicians and operational crews, including recording and monitoring.
- Represent SFRS at partnership meetings to promote prevention activities and share best practice/data, as commensurate with the role.
- Carry out fire safety interventions when required, visiting children and young people who have been flagged as fire setters.
- Support the delivery of prevention training to all staff, including at WT and On Call training courses.
- Conducting Fire Safety Interventions as required
You should have excellent communication, organisation, and IT skills. The ideal candidate should have experience of delivering and presenting to varied audiences, and have the ability to use intelligence and data to drive initiatives.
Previous experience of Community Safety initiatives, working with key partners, and with vulnerable people, would be advantageous.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment
Closing date for receipt of all applications is: 30th September 2026 Midday 12:00
This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check with adult and child workforce with child barring.
All communication regarding this vacancy will be issued via email, so please check your email account on a regular basis.
If you have any enquiries please contact:
- Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Access to Gyms & Fitness Advisor
- Free Parking at Most Sites
- Enhanced Maternity Package
- Occupational Health
- Well-being Champions
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Eye Tests
- Flexible Working Scheme
- The Firefighter Charity
- Cycle Scheme
- Blue Light Card
- Flamesavers
- Rewards for rescue
- Say So
- Development Programme
- Trade Unions
- Career Breaks
- Physiotherapy
- TRiM
- Employment Network
- Fostering Friendly
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service's recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.
Please note if you are successful at interview and commence pre-employment checks this will include DBS, please see what this involves and the process via the below link:
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve.
Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.
We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.
For more information on Positive Action please email the team on
For any Recruitment queries please email
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