Safety and Partnerships Officer

The Home Safety and Partnerships Officer sits in Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service’s Community Safety team, leading prevention work across the Western Command area. The role manages Home Safety Technicians and partnership staff, develops and evaluates interventions, monitors performance, and builds relationships with partner organisations. It combines team leadership with service improvement and quality assurance, and involves travel across the Western Command / Plymouth area.

This is a permanent, full-time post at 37 hours a week.

• Lead, manage and support Home Safety Technicians and partnership staff, including recruitment, performance, wellbeing, training and development
• Set objectives, allocate work and monitor outcomes to support high-quality service delivery
• Design, deliver, evaluate and quality assure Home Safety and Partnership interventions and activities
• Analyse and report performance data, identifying opportunities to improve services and efficiency
• Support the development, implementation and review of Community Safety Prevention policies and processes
• Generate and promote Home Safety Visit referrals for people most at risk
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners, and represent the Service at meetings and partnership groups
• Manage information in line with GDPR and Service policies
• Produce progress reports and undertake risk assessments for prevention activities
• Work from Service Headquarters, Exeter, with travel across the Western Command / Plymouth area

• Travel across the Western Command / Plymouth area