About the job

Job summary

The role of Defence Fire and Rescue (DFR) is to provide a central Departmental focus for all fire matters (outside of those responsibilities held by the Defence Safety Authority (DSA)). The Chief Fire Officer DFR is accountable to the Permanent Secretary for Defence (PS), via Director Support Air Command, for supporting Defence in its delivery of appropriate Fire Risk Management (FRM) that complies with statutory legislation and regulatory standards. As MoD’s formal intelligent customer, and the Department’s Senior Fire SMEs, DFR HQ is responsible for managing Defence’s exposure to fire risk at the corporate level, ensuring that consistent and coherent advice on mitigating the business and capability risks posed by fire is available across the Department. DFR HQ is the focal point for all Departmental matters relating to FRM across the Defence, including on Deployed Operations, and other synergistic activities which improve FRM and safety.

DFR is a customer facing organisation providing Fire Risk Management across Protection, Prevention and Response activity to Defence. In line with DSA safety regulations, second party assurance (2nd Lines of Defence(2LoD)) across Defence Fire Risk Management activity is a regulatory requirement which is pivotal in Defence’s success in meeting safety obligations set by Secretary of State for Defence.

As the Station Manager within the Defence Fire Risk Management (FRM) Assurance Business Unit (BU) within the DFR HQ, you will play a key role in this process, reporting directly to the DFRS Group Manager within the FRM BU for the delivery and execution of 2LoD processes in accordance with DFR Audit and Assurance (A&A) policies and procedures.

This position is advertised at 42 hours per week.

Job description

A detailed job description is attached to this advertisement.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

- Delivery of DFR 2LoD A&A of the processes to deliver legally compliant, suitable, and sufficient Fire Safety Risk Assessments (FRA) on the Defence estate.

- Delivery of the DFR 2LoD A&A processes for safety critical Operational F&R response (ARFF & Structural) activities.

- Delivery of the DFR 2LoD A&A processes for operational response and fire safety training provided by external training providers to Defence personnel supporting FRM provision and F&R response within Defence.

- Supporting the DFRS Group Manager within the BU in responding to information requests in support of 3LoD A&A regimes relating to FRM and/or F&R response within Defence.

- Staffing, through the chain of command, A&A outcomes which identify risk to life and/or risk to strategic capability as a matter of priority. 

- Through collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, identifying opportunities to support continuous improvement in the DFR A&A processes. 

- Managing the DFR A&A management information system to include the regular interrogation of data and identification of trends and opportunities for improving FRM within Defence.

- Undertaking A&A activities, produce reports and provide advice to customers and service providers in support of achieving and complying with audit recommendations.

- Providing support, advice and guidance regarding the DFR A&A policies, processes and procedures to internal and external stakeholders.

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Person specification

To be successful in this role the ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following Emergency Fire Services Management (EFSM) modules (Fire Service National Occupations Standards (NOS)). Competence in the identified areas will be achieved through the completion of a Development Pathway on promotion which will include an FT3 Station Managers promotion course, appropriate management training and bespoke to role training:

EFSM2 - Leading, monitoring and supporting people to resolve operational incidents

EFSM3 - Determining solutions to hazards and risks identified through inspection and Investigation                       

EFSM6 - Implementing organisational strategy                               

EFSM9 - Implementing and manage change in organisational activities

EFSM10 - Planning and implementing activities to meet service delivery needs

EFSM11 - Determining effective use of physical and financial resources

EFSM12 - Managing the effective use of resources

EFSM13 - Selecting personnel for employment

EFSM14 - Managing the performance of teams and individuals to achieve objectives                   

EFSM15 - Developing teams and individuals to enhance work based performance

EFSM16 - Managing yourself to achieve work objectives

EFSM17 - Advising on the development and implementation of quality policies

EFSM18 - Implementing Quality Assurance systems

EFSM19 - Monitoring compliance with Quality systems

EFSM20 - Exchanging information to ensure effective service delivery

EFSM21 - Providing information to support decision making

EFSM22 - Developing information systems to support service delivery organisations

EFSM23 - Agreeing project plans to meet specified objectives

EFSM25 - Managing projects to meet objectives

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £44,587, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,038 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours.

Eligibility – Applicants must be able to provide evidence of qualification and experience in a professional firefighting role at Watch Manager or Station Manager level.

Curriculum Vitae - A CV will be required for this position, CVs must comply with the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard, detailing job history, full qualifications previous experience and skills.

Behaviours - Candidates will be required to submit evidence of no more than 250 words against the selected behaviours.

Statement of Suitability - Candidates will be required to complete a Statement of Suitability of no more than 1000 words, explaining how they consider their personal skills, qualities, and experience provide evidence of suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.

Interviews - Interviews for this post will take place in DFR HQ, Marlborough Lines, Andover (date to be confirmed). Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.

Reserve List - Should the advertised post become vacant again within a period 12 months, DFR may offer the position to a reserve candidate in accordance with the recorded assessment merit order. The reserve list would be applicable solely to the FRMA Station Manager Assurance post.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.  

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.  

MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights. 

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.