Assistant Commissioner - London, United Kingdom - London Fire Brigade

London Fire Brigade

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role
London Fire Brigade is currently recruiting strategic roles to the rank of Assistant Commissioner.

London Fire Brigade is one of the largest fire and rescue services in the world, serving a complex and dynamic city.

London has almost 9 million people living in it and the City of Westminster alone has a population density of over 100 times the national average.

At 6 per cent, London still has one of the highest population growth rates of any United Kingdom region in the last five years.

London's skyline has changed from a sprawling low-rise city to a high-rise metropolis, home to 70% of England's high-rise buildings.

London also has significant transport infrastructure which serves hundreds of millions of people every day.

There are over 300 different languages spoken in London which makes it the most diverse city in the world, where 40 per cent of its population identify as non-white.

As part of our Community Risk Management Plan for 2023 to 2029, Your London Fire Brigade, we are changing and transforming how we work to ensure that London's communities continue to get the services they need between 2023 and 2029.

Through our plan we will do more to focus our resources on the vulnerable and continue to prioritise attendance times and getting our first fire engine to an incident in under six minutes on average.

We will also be with our communities more in outreach work, providing support after an incident and also enabling communities to use fire stations as their own.

We will also be modernising our online services to ensure Londoners can get the advice they need.

The Role Working with the London Fire Commissioner and Directors, Assistant Commissioners are key leaders in ensuring that the London Fire Brigade is trusted to serve and protect London.

Assistant Commissioners 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.

You would be joining during an exciting time of transformation, where you would be responsible for the delivery of the London Fire Commissioners 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 long-term strategy to become a forward-thinking service led organisation, with communities at the heart of its delivery, prioritising the development, launch 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. Your valuable skills and knowledge will be developed and challenged as you embark on helping us to drive change, innovation, and continuous improvement. Assistant Commissioners are responsible for planning, directing, and delivering the services provided by a department ensuring continual improvement in efficiency and performance and compliance with regulations and the law. To play a full leadership role within the LFC as a member of the appropriate Directorate Management Team and Corporate Heads of Service Group. To be a member of the Assistant Commissioner's operational rota, available to undertake the duties and responsibilities of the Duty Brigade Manager and be mobilised to operational incidents to perform the strategic incident command function and/or represent the London Fire Brigade as its nominated 'Gold' Commander.

Eligibility

Where you cannot demonstrate to have the required Incident Command qualifications, you will need to successfully undertake a Level 3 incident command assessment as a minimum, followed by a Level 4 acquisition course, (a Level 7 Award in Strategic Incident Command in Fire and Rescue Services qualification).

Assessment Overview

Additional Information

Job Reference:
OS00150