Youth Intervention Lead – Avon Fire and Rescue Service

As a Youth Safety Intervention Lead, you will be responsible for identifying, designing, and delivering targeted programs that educate youth on crucial fire, water, and road safety, significantly reducing their risks and empowering them with essential knowledge. You’ll also research and develop engaging resources to ensure our interventions are always impactful and effective.

Some of the things you’ll be doing

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with children and young people services within each Unitary Authority and other stakeholders to explore collaborative working opportunities, seek advice and support or deliver key interventions where appropriate.
• Participate in the formulation of internal practices and procedures regarding working with children and young people, to assist in the planning, delivering and evaluating of youth work interventions across the Service.
• Be responsible for promoting the safeguarding and welfare of vulnerable people through the processing of internal referrals to source external support, being diligent in related administration and escalating concerns when required.
• Maintain knowledge and awareness of current legislation and guidance which impacts the work of the department, raising changes/issues with the CYP manager as necessary to ensure a high quality of delivery of service.
• Be a point of contact within Risk Reduction for both internal and external departments and organisations, including liaising with the Corporate Communications team to give media soundbites when needed.
• Maintain a working knowledge and practices of the Juvenile Fire Setter Intervention Scheme in order to provide resilience to the core delivery team.
• Deliver training designed to improve the impact of intervention sessions and evidence the impact through quality assurance monitoring.