Deputy Assistant Commissioner - London, United Kingdom - London Fire Brigade

London Fire Brigade

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

London Fire Brigade (LFB) is seeking highly motivated, talented and adaptable Group Commanders who have the vision, leadership skills and potential to become part of the Brigade's top management team.

Do you have what we are looking for?

We are looking for the best people to lead the organisation to shape our services to provide London with a world class fire and rescue service, which is trusted to serve and protect London's diverse communities.

It is an exciting and challenging time to join us.

We continue to focus our efforts on prevention and protection, as well as providing a first-class operational response to a wide range of emergencies.

We have made big changes in recent years, taking bold decisions to set the Brigade in the strongest possible position at a time of public sector savings.

Further challenges lie ahead, particularly in light of the pandemic, and continuing to respond and improve following HMICFRS inspections and the Grenfell Inquiry.

The role

Working with the London Fire Commissioner and Directors and Assistant Commissioners,

Deputy Assistant Commissioners (DACs) are key leaders in ensuring that the London Fire Brigade is trusted to serve and protect London.

DACs deliver this by ensuring the Brigade is a dynamic, forward-looking organisation of fully engaged people at the centre of the communities we serve, adapting to the needs of London.

To support this, you will be responsible for the delivery of the London Fire Commissioner's strategic aims of:

Placing a premium on leadership skills and investing in leadership at all levels.
Fostering and embedding a culture of togetherness so that every member of staff feels respected and valued regardless of their gender, sexuality, colour of skin, race or religion and that everyone feels able to bring their whole self to work, feeling a sense of belonging in the Brigade because they can be themselves.
Developing the Brigade's longterm strategy to become a forwardthinking service led organisation, with communities at the heart of its delivery, prioritising the development, and delivery its Community Risk Management Plan.
Building on the Brigade's improvement plans deliver continuous improvement across its operational and support functions ensuring excellence and efficiency in everything it delivers.

DACs are responsible for planning, directing, and delivering the services provided by a designated function ensuring continual improvement in efficiency and performance and compliance with regulations and the law.

You will play a full leadership role within the office of the London Fire Commissioner ("the LFC") as a member of the appropriate Departmental Management Team.

You would join the DACs' operational rota and would be mobilised to operational incidents to perform monitoring and incident command functions and represent the Brigade at Strategic Command.

You would also play an integral role in managing the Brigade's Strategic Response Arrangements.

These roles and responsibilities represent a significant operational and strategic management commitment and will require provision of a standby or call out base in London.

Eligibility:

To be eligible to apply, all applicants must:

Be a serving wholetime operational, substantive, and competent Group or Area Manager/Commander in a UK local authority fire and rescue service.
Be Level 2 Incident Command qualified and in ticket.
Be free of any current formal disciplinary sanctions.
Applicants must hold a full UK driving licence.

The person will be able:

To provide motivational leadership to the relevant function and secure staff commitment to support the delivery of the LFC aims and objectives.
To provide leadership to the Department as an integral member of the Departmental Management Team.
To lead, support and deliver corporate projects, as required.
To be a champion of diversity and equality of opportunity for staff and to ensure that that the LFC equalities policies are implemented effectively.
To ensure the relevant function's resources (people and financial) are deployed and controlled effectively to secure the LFC overall business objectives and Integrated Risk Management Plan.
To maintain, under continuous review, the effectiveness of the role and responsibilities within the relevant function.
To ensure the development and implementation of programmes to drive efficiency and performance improvements and to ensure the effective development of strategic partnerships with government, local authorities, and other agencies to deliver improved service performance.

Assessment Overview:

How to apply

Your CV

Please include your current or most recent salary, and the name and contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current line manager.

Application closing date:
Monday, 17 July :00)

Assessment process

The assessment process will comprise the following four stages with expected timeframes.

Stage 1:
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