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.

As the Station Manager Operational Development (OD) within the Operational Capability and Development (OC&D) Business Unit, you will be directly responsible to the Group Manager OD for the development and review of operational safety policy and doctrine, facilitating engagement between Service Providers, Duty Holders and Defence Stakeholders and for the provision of advice and guidance necessary to enable Service Providers to develop and implement safe, critical, innovative and proportionate F&R response capabilities which comply with legislative, regulatory and Defence requirements. 

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:

- Supporting the Group Manger OD in consulting and developing a methodology which will accurately define Defence’s requirements in a manner which will enable a safe and compliant fire response model.

- Supporting the development of operational safety policy and doctrine that fully complies with relevant legislative, regulatory and Defence requirements.

- Supporting the review and updating of MOD/DFR operational (Response) strategic documents to ensure standards and guidance remains compliant with legislative, regulatory and MOD requirements.

- Providing support for the revision of operational instructions and doctrine to ensure that Safe Systems of Work are maintained.

- Supporting the review, monitoring and provision of technical advice to inform performance monitoring activities associated with MOD’s contract with Capita for the provision of fire and rescues services to Defence.

- Providing advice and guidance to Defence stakeholders regarding operational response arrangements.

- Engaging with Defence Fire Safety Regulator (DFSR) to ensure DFR response/training strategies, standards, procedures and guidance remain fully compliant with Regulator policy requirements.

- Providing advice, guidance and support to Duty Holders and other stakeholders to promote understanding, compliance and continuous improvement.

- Providing advice, guidance and support for proportionate operational response to Defence strategic assets, activities at overseas locations and in support of deployed operations.

- Support the review policies, directives and procedures (out-with those issued by the DFSR) critical in providing the necessary direction to meet Defence posture for operations/training.

- Support opportunities for the revision of existing operational response plans which will result in improved value for money or, improved business continuity/resilience measures for Defence.

- Supporting the review of Service Provider operational response plans and doctrine to identify areas of risk (risk to life and/or risk to strategic capability) and escalate findings through the chain of command.

- Providing information necessary to support service delivery providers to develop, implement and maintain a delivery model which fully complies with relevant legislative, regulatory and Defence requirements.

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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 - Determine solutions to hazards and risks identified through inspection and Investigation

EFSM10 - Plan and implement activities to meet service delivery needs

EFSM12 - Manage 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

EFSM21 – Provide information to support decision making

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, 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 OC&D Stational Manager Operational Development 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

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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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.