Watch Manager Organisational Assurance – Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Job Title: Watch Manager Organisational Assurance

Contract: Permanent

Working Hours: 42 hours (Day-Duty working pattern)

Salary:   Watch Manager B (£46,707 per annum)

Location: Kelvedon Park

Closing Date: 3rd March 2025

We are open to discuss working arrangements including flexibility over hours

As an operational employee, you will be required to maintain operational competency, and support availability and work from various stations across the county, in line with our Day-Duty Officers Riding (DDOR) principles. This is a requirement of the role and an essential condition to maintaining Grey Book terms and conditions.

The Role

This offers a great opportunity for a colleague looking to engage in a multi-functioning team, providing assurance across the Service, developing skills and knowledge of all functions whilst working with colleagues to agree and assure actions leading to the continuous improvement of our Service.

What You Will Be Working On

• Supporting Service Audit processes, including station audits and development of future audits.

• Supporting our Service debrief process, including discussing considerations for change with other departments within various meetings.

• Working together with other departments assuring various aspects of our Service.

• Attending meetings both internal and external on behalf of Organisational Assurance.

• Supporting and developing future thematic reviews, when required.

What Are We Looking For?

We are looking for someone who is self-motivated and resilient with a passion to moving our Service forward through assurance and positive change. The individual must be open to learning and familiarising themselves with other departments processes and key performance indicators and creating assurance processes. We will also require the applicant to be familiar with or willing to learn the suite of software packages available with Microsoft 365.

The successful applicant will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills. They will be proficient in assessing problems and determining the most appropriate action and will be able to demonstrate that they support changes in the Service in a positive constructive manner.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this opportunity you must:

• Hold a substantive role as a Crew Manager (wholetime / day-duty) for a minimum of twelve months, or are Watch Manager (or equivalent), within a UK Fire and Rescue Service

• Have successfully completed all relevant operational assessments and mandatory courses, and are competent in your current role

• Hold a valid Level 1 Incident Command

• Be able to travel around the county as required, to visit all ECFRS fire stations and sites

• Not be subject to any current live disciplinary or performance warnings, nor be subject to any informal management for reasons of conduct or performance

• Have a valid and current FiTech of 42 VO2 max