Job: Fire Safety Inspector
Salary: £27,803 - £35,745 (bar at £31,164)
Hours: 36.25 hours per week
Job type: Full Time
Location: A range of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service locations across Greater Manchester
Closing date: Thursday 18th April at 11:59pm
Please see attached the role profile
Job Description: Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to make Greater Manchester a safer place?
If so there has never been a better time to join our Protection Department as a Fire Safety Inspector to help improve the safety of the built environment and keep the public safe. Our fire safety teams exist to keep the public and our Firefighters safe. We do this by identifying, investigating and reducing the risk from fires. We work with our partners to identify risks and develop solutions to improve safety through engagement, advice and enforcement.
As a Fire Safety Inspector, you'll play a pivotal role in offering guidance and assistance to businesses, ensuring that buildings comply with fire safety standards. When public safety is jeopardised, you will take decisive action to rectify the situation. You will also support our partners to make sure fire safety is considered in buildings by responding to a range of consultations.
About you
We are more interested in what you can do than what you know.
If you have excellent communication skills, the ability to think analytically, problem solve and can plan and manage a busy workload then you have the right skills. If you can evidence that you can work as part of a team and in partnership, develop relationships with partners, have a co-operative and flexible approach to work and have identified and delivered service improvements then you have the right experience to apply to be a Fire Safety Inspector.
If you don’t currently work in fire safety we will provide you with the essential training and support you need to be an effective Fire Safety Inspector. Once you have mastered the basics we will continue to provide you with access to training and continuous professional development. You can then progress to being a Senior Fire Safety Inspector by taking a lead on improving our services.
About us
This is an exciting time to join fire safety as we continue to evolve the way we deliver our services in line with the HMICFRS recommendations, find new ways of developing our staff and continue to deliver core fire safety enforcement and business support activities. We are investing in fire safety teams to ensure that we have an agile workforce capable of responding quickly and effectively to risk and that we deliver an effective regulatory function which is accessible, effective, targeted and proportionate.
We are committed to developing our Fire Safety Inspectors ensuring that everyone has the ability to carry out the core work with opportunities to become a specialist.
About the roles
As a Fire Safety Inspector your main work will be to inspect premises and provide advice and guidance to responsible persons and take enforcement action where necessary.
You will play an integral role in engaging with businesses – this may be through delivering presentations, arranging events or working on guidance. You will work closely with colleagues and partners to promote fire safety in new and existing buildings.
As you develop your skills and experience you will have the opportunity to specialise in a technical role influencing building design or an enforcement role carrying out complex enforcement including criminal investigations.
These are career graded positions which mean that you will develop as a fire safety practitioner in line with the Competency Framework for Fire Safety Regulators developed by the National Fire Chiefs Council. Once you have completed your initial training and been authorised to take formal enforcement action you will progress through the pay bar at £31,364. Progression from Fire Safety Inspector to Senior Fire Safety Inspector will require you to obtain the necessary qualifications and demonstrate your experience and competence through a formal progression framework.
About Our Protection Teams:
There has never been a better time to join Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service – recently rated as ‘Good’ by HMICFRS we want you to help us become Outstanding. Our Protection Teams work to ensure compliance with fire safety laws and offer advice and support to a wide range of commercial and residential premises. We have changed our delivery model to ensure our Fire Safety Regulators can focus in key areas and now have specialised Fire Safety Teams, including a Risk Reduction Team proactively auditing from our Risk Based Inspection Programme, an Investigations and Enforcement Team who tackle non-compliance, a Technical and Consultations Team who lead on influencing the safety of the built environment and Higher Risk Team who lead on the regulation of high rise buildings, hospitals and other high risk sites.
We are committed to supporting the development of our Fire Safety Regulators and you will be able to access a range of training and development opportunities and have a personalised CPD Budget putting you in control of your personal development.
Available roles: We have a number of roles available for Fire Safety Inspectors. If successful your initial training will commence on the 10th June and you will need to be available to start on that date and be available to attend training courses between 10th and 28th June and 22nd and 27th July.
Further information and job profiles for each vacancy are available on the links below:
About us:
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Recourses; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
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.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Our offer:
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer, which includes:
- Flexible working conditions with the ability to accrue 2 flexi days every 4 weeks (up to grade 11)
- Commitment to diversity and inclusivity with 4 active staff networks for; LGBT+, Black and Racially Diverse, Disability and Womens
- Family friendly policies including parental leave (maternity, shared parental, adoption, maternity support)
- Generous Annual leave scheme - 25 days + Bank Holidays per annum upon starting, after 5 years service increase to 30 days + BH and after 10 years service increase to 32 days +BH.
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Employer investment in training and development, and professional sponsorship including CPD
- 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
- Sports and welfare club
Information on how to apply: You should apply by providing a CV and a separate expression of interest of no more than 5 pages (as a word attachment) setting out your suitability for the role in relation to the experience, skills and behaviours required.
Interviews will be held the weeks commencing: 22nd and 29th April