Home Safety Advisor – Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

Job reference: REQ000405

Based at Bedford – with travel across the county

Are you passionate about keeping people safe in their homes? Do you want to make a real difference in your community? We are looking for a proactive, compassionate, and organised individual to join our Prevention Team.

Key Responsibilities:
– Contact residents to arrange and deliver Home Fire Safety Visits using a risk-based approach.
– Conduct Home Fire Safety Visits and well-being assessments, providing safety advice, installing assistive technology, and reducing home risks.
Identify and assist at-risk individuals, collaborating with multi-agency partners to reduce risk and improve well-being.
– Make needs-based referrals to partner agencies with the occupier’s consent.
– Comply with the Service’s Safeguarding Policy and facilitate appropriate referrals to support vulnerable residents.
– Maintain knowledge of local support services and build relationships with partner agencies.
– Manage your diary, record Home Safety activities, and ensure referrals are processed and communicated to relevant partners.

About you
You will have:
– Some experience of working in a fire, or injury prevention/health promotion capacity, risk management, customer service role or voluntary sector organisation.
– Some experience of working in situations requiring the ability to empathise whilst remaining professional, confidential and impartial.
– Some experience with working efficiently to organise own time and maintain safe working practices.
– Some experience, understanding and commitment to principles of community fire safety and well-being issues, particularly relating to risk reduction and safety education.
– Able to demonstrate a high standard of oral and written communication with the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate written and spoken English.
– GCSE in Maths and English at grade 4 or above or equivalent, or a relevant vocational qualification at Level 2.
– Current full driving licence with no pending issues.

For more details about the key responsibilities and essential criteria required for the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Next steps
If this role is of interest, please visit our website https://www.bedsfire.gov.uk/careers/search for further information and to make a formal application. We ask that you include your full career history and reference your skills and experience in line with the job description and person specification within your application and supporting statement.

Closing date: Thursday 16 July 2026

The selection process will take place on Wednesday 29 July 2026