Crew Manager External Promotion Pathway
Salary: CM Dev (£38,501) – CM Comp (£40,161) per annum
Location: Various roles and locations across the GMFRS boundary
Closing Date: 12:00 noon on 5th April 2024
Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service (GMFRS) are pleased to confirm that the Crew Manager application window is now live and seeking talented & passionate high performing individuals who can bring diverse ideas into an evolving and improving UK FRS. We welcome applications external candidates who have a proven track record of success as a competent Wholetime Firefighter within their current service.
For Competent Crew managers looking to transfer to GMFRS, please refer to our Crew Manager Inter-Service Transfer application form.
ABOUT US
GMFRS has seen a positive shift over the last year in terms of the leadership and culture and our vision is to be a modern, flexible, resilient fire and rescue service. It is a large service which offers staff development opportunities in a busy, vibrant, diverse & dynamic metropolitan area with an international airport serving over 200 destinations, a major motorway network plus over 200 train and tram stations, Greater Manchester County presents some of the most operationally varied challenges you will find. From modern inner-city developments to traditional mill towns, Greater Manchester is made up of ten very different districts - Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
ABOUT YOU
We are looking for individuals for a Crew Manager role, with potential who have:
Essential
- Demonstrable competence as a permanent Wholetime Firefighter within a UK Fire and Rescue Service throughout the last two years (proof of contract and up to date training records)
- Operational awareness or competence as a Wholetime Firefighter
- Currently not under any live sanctions, capability, performance, or disciplinary procedures
- Willingness and ability to be posted to and work from any location within the Greater Manchester boundary
- Driving license with access to own vehicle
Desirable
- IFE Level 3 Certificate in Fire Service Operations, Incident Command & Fire Safety
- SFJ L3 Incident Command Qualification
- Any Technical Rescue Unit specific qualification or training
- Protection experience or additional qualifications such as NFCC Fire regulators Competency Framework for Fire Safety - L4 Diploma
- Started a development portfolio / can evidence development for promotion
- Already accessed a coach or mentor to support you throughout your promotional process
Please Note: We are not currently accepting any On-Call Firefighter applications for our external Crew Manager Promotions Pathway.
PROCESS
All applicants will be required to complete an application fulfilling the relevant personal details and attaching any relevant qualifications. Applicants will then be invited to attend a leadership potential assessment day (these are scheduled July - August 2024). Further information will be provided upon invitation, including anything you may be asked to pre-prepare.
If successful in your leadership assessment day, in score placement order, you will be invited to attend and complete your SFJ L3 qualification and frontline leaders’ course (due to run from late September 2024). Following successful completion, work placements for development and acting up on the rota to cover short term absence will be offered. Please note, whilst undertaking a CM posting, development rate of pay will be paid until such time the individual is deemed to be competent.
To achieve competence in role and pay, all competent essential criteria will need to be met, please see the framework for more details.
Please Note: Successful external applicants whose outcome is promotable through this process will initially be offered a substantive Firefighter position with Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service. A Crew Manager promotion will only be secure on successful completion of all essential promotion pathway criteria.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
As an organisation we have many benefits including:
· Commitment to diversity and inclusivity with 5 active staff networks for; LGBT+, Black and Racially Diverse, Disability and Women’s
· Family friendly policies including parental leave (maternity, shared parental, adoption, maternity support)
· Employer investment in training and development, and professional sponsorship
· Corporate travel loans
· Cycle scheme
· Discount scheme (MiRewards) on local and national high street brands
· Health and wellbeing offer - Occupational Health and Employee Assistance programme
· On-site gyms at our Fire Service HQ and Stations across GM
· Sports and welfare club
We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT:
This post involves working with children, young people or vulnerable adults and is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Failure to disclose information when asked within this application could result in dismissal but will not necessarily be a bar to employment with us. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on the Ministry of Justice website.
The role holder will be subject to a National and Police Vetting through a standard Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Safeguarding Policy and Procedure
If you would like any further information or require any reasonable adjustments, please contact GMCApeople@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk and include ‘CM External Promotional Pathway’ in the email subject heading.
We wish you the best of luck with your application.