Enhanced Community Safety Advocate – Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service

Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service are looking for Enhanced Community Safety Advocates to join our Community Safety (Prevention) team on a Casual Ad-hoc basis.

As an Enhanced Community Safety Advocate you will work to generate, promote and deliver Community Safety advice / education through early intervention / initiatives to communities within Devon and Somerset to reduce deaths and injuries caused by fire, road traffic collisions, water safety and other emergencies. You will actively support Service objectives by working with other Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service personnel, partnership agencies and other third-party organisations.

Within the Enhanced Community Safety Advocate role there are 4 main workstreams:

-Children and Young People (CYP)
-Education
-Fire Safety Intervention
-Road Safety

Main Responsibilities of the Enhanced Community Safety Advocate role:

-To promote and deliver community safety (CS) advice and education to communities within Devon and Somerset, including those identified as ‘at-risk’ groups. –Engage communities with the most appropriate community safety activity, in addition to responding to referrals from partnership agencies, key stakeholders and third party organisations.
-To promote, deliver and support core community safety activities as follows:
organise and use community safety resources within the Service area.
-Support generation of Home Safety Visit (HSV) referrals where appropriate.
-Support development of partnerships with other organisations.
-Support ‘Hot Strikes’ (where appropriate)
-Deliver key safety messages and campaigns.
-To adopt a person-centred resolution / outcome for local and national campaigns.
-To complete associated administration duties.
-To undertake pre and post activity checks including resource replenishment and administration as required, including vehicle checks, logbooks and ensure resource readiness for future activity delivery.
-To actively promote, develop and support partnership working by delivering single and/or collaborative activities.
-Support the CS management team to promote community safety issues, campaigns and events.

If you would like more information or to speak to someone about this position and the various workstreams, please contact the following people in the first instance:

For Children and Young People(CYP), Education and Fire Safety Intervention – Gemma Skelley, gskelley@dsfire.gov.uk, 07977 796523

For Road Safety – Annabelle Priest, annabellepriest@dsfire.gov.uk, 07859 880885.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to become an Enhanced Community Safety Advocate please click ‘apply’ today on our website, we would love to hear from you.