Job Title: Head of Professional Standards
Contract: Permanent (Green Book national terms and conditions)
Working Hours: 37
Salary: £72,391 - £78,930 per annum
Location: Service HQ, Kelvedon Park, Rivenhall, Essex
Closing Date: 12pm, Monday 14 October 2024
We are open to discuss working arrangements as this will be a hybrid-working role, combining regular attendance at our Headquarters with some home working. Travel around the county of Essex to visit our various sites will be required, and there may be some requirement to visit other organisations outside of Essex from time to time.
The Role
We are committed to our vision of making Essex safer together, for our communities. This newly created role, setting up, establishing, and then leading a Professional Standards function, is critical to that mission.
As our new Head of Professional Standards, your initial focus will be designing and establishing the function as a key part of the service. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the organisation and representative bodies, as well as engaging with the National Fire Chiefs Council, and other services and organisations to ensure that ECFRS learns from others and shares its experience.
You will play a leading, visible role, embedding strong, positive values and behaviours through every level of the Service, and in everything we do. The success of this role will be integral to the maintenance of public confidence in Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (ECFRS), and to us achieving our ambition to become one of the best Fire & Rescue Services in the country.
The role, which will report into the Deputy Chief Fire Officer, will also be responsible for ensuring that appropriate and robust accountability and assurance mechanisms are established in support of this aim, and to facilitate us achieving the highest standards in all that we do. You will report regularly to the Service Leadership Team (SLT) and the Police, Fire, and Crime Commissioner (PFCC).
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