The Role
Post: Education Support Officer
Grade: FRS B
Starting salary: £16,774.87 per annum
Salary range for the FRS B grade: £16,774.87 - £19,884.25 per annum
Status: Fixed-term contract until 31/03/2020
Closing date: Tuesday 28 May 2019 at 16:00 GMT
A Fixed Term opportunity has arisen for the role of Education Officer in the London Fire Brigade’s Community Safety Department, until 30th March 2020. Working flexibly on a term-time / part -time only basis you will travel throughout the Greater London area working a 6.5 hour day between 09:00 and 15:30hrs
As one of the largest fire and rescue services in the world, the London Fire Brigade , responds to emergencies, keeping our capital diverse community safe from fires. Education plays a critical role within our Community Safety department, and fire safety education needs to start early. Our ‘Education Team’ works hard to delivering quality, memorable fire safety workshops in primary and secondary schools and to the general public at local events. By teaching children and young people potentially life-saving information that this will stay with them into adulthood.
Are you the person that can deliver these vital safety messages to diverse communities across London? And are you adaptable to find solutions to problems which may arise.
Experience of working with children and young people, delivering education and presenting to groups is essential. The role relies on your ability to communicate powerful messages in an interesting and digestible way. You will need to work with minimal supervision as well as have excellent organisational and administrative skills.
Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the attached job description.
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications will not be accepted.
Eligibility
We are keen to hear from anyone with the ability to do this job to help us achieve a workforce as diverse as the communities that we serve.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. 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.
The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
Assessment Overview
As part of the online application form, candidates must provide evidence to address the following criteria:
Selection Criteria 1 - Experience of imparting education to children and young people.
Selection Criteria 2 - Experience of maintaining record systems (both computerised and manual).
Selection Criteria 3 - Experience of working flexibly with minimal supervision.
Selection Criteria 4 - Experience of using a range of Information Technology applications including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint , together with good keyboard skills and an awareness of the ways in which IT applications can be utilised in the context of the duties of the post.
Assessment for this role is due to place mid/late-June 2019. Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment date, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements.
Additional Information
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications will not be accepted.
In line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed for the successful person, which will include an enhanced criminal records check. The successful person will be required to declare any convictions for offences which are not spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a basic disclosure will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.
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