The Role
Post: Fire Cadets Co-ordinator
Salary: £30,575 per annum
Grade: FRS C
Salary range: £30,575 - £36,705 per annum
Contract type: 2 Permanent and 2 Fixed-Term.
Working pattern: Full-time
Application closing date: Thursday 31 March 2022 at 16:00 GMT
Fire Cadets is a national organisation for young people aged 13-17 delivered by London Fire Brigade at local fire stations across London, and is one of London’s newest unformed youth organisations that is expanding fast. It aims to provide young people with a sense of purpose and belonging, great life experiences, self-confidence, effective presentation and communication skills, teamwork opportunities, progression paths, and nationally recognised qualifications.
Following receipt of funding from the Mayor of London, LFB Fire Cadets has completed a large expansion of the provision, enabling us to open a Fire Cadets unit to serve every London Borough. In order to continue to deliver this service to all young people across London, we are now looking for experienced, committed, and dedicated people with a passion for youth engagement to organise and run 3 Fire Cadets units each. Currently, we are recruiting for the Fire Cadets units based in North West and South West London ONLY.
As a Fire Cadets Coordinator (FCC) you will be employed in a supervisory management role and will be responsible for planning and setting up each unit, recruiting of young people and adult volunteers and coordinating the delivery of three Fire Cadets units in London.
Successful candidates will need to be articulate and confident team players who are also self motivated, enthusiastic and innovative. They must have proven experience in supervising and developing young people and adult volunteers. Most importantly they will need to demonstrate a commitment to ensuring consideration of diversity and inclusion runs through everything they do.
This is very much a hands-on delivery role and there will be regular weekly evening and weekend working. Although you will work a 35-hour week, each Fire Cadets unit runs one evening a week from approximately 6:00pm until 9:00pm during school terms, and therefore you will need to work flexibly and be present before and after each session. The ability to work flexibly and travel is essential, as there may be occasions where you would be expected to provide resilience cover to other units across the city.
With experience of working within the public, community, or voluntary sector in a similar role, you will also possess high levels of written and oral communication and teamwork skills. FCCs will be required to build professional relationships with internal staff and external partners, generate funding, deliver lessons and training, organise, and participate in events, work as a team, and help to develop and raise awareness of the LFB Fire Cadets brand.
This is a busy and rewarding role in an exciting time for LFB Fire Cadets – are you ready for it?
The Fixed term contacts are for 6 months. These contracts may be extended and there is potential for the postings to become permanent. In that case, the employee may be assimilated, subject to the conditions in paragraph 17 of the policy number 972 - Recruitment policy - FRS and Control.
We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across London. The London Fire Commissioner is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we positively 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.
Assessment Overview
Further information about the main duties and responsibilities of the role are detailed in the attached job description.
For further information about Fire Cadets please visit: http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/FireCadets.asp
Please ensure you give yourself enough time to complete and submit your application. Late or un-submitted applications cannot be accepted.
Please note any correspondence received from us will be via e-mail and sent to the address you provide on your application form.
To apply – complete the online application form and provide evidence to address the selection criteria under the assessment overview (see below). Your application will be marked against the responses you provide to the selection criteria. CVs will not be considered.
Stage 1
Online application and evidence to the selection criteria.
As part of the online application form, candidates must provide evidence to address the following selection criteria:
Selection Criteria 1 - Experience of working with young people and community and voluntary sectors.
Selection Criteria 2 - Experience of managing volunteers and their development, training and motivation.
Selection Criteria 3 - A good level of written, oral and presentation communication skills in order to liaise and interact effectively with staff at all levels members of the public and representatives of external organisations, and to prepare correspondence and reports.
Selection Criteria 4 - Ability to support and develop people to achieve personal and organisational objectives.
Your application will be sifted based on the responses provided to the above criteria and shortlisted candidates will be invited to stage 2.
Stage 2
Assessment for this role is due to take place mid April. Please be advised that if you are unable to make the scheduled assessment date, we may not be able to make alternative arrangements.
Please note: Should you be shortlisted you may need to be able to conduct an interview over Microsoft Teams (a video conferencing service). You will be asked to provide relevant contact details for that to take place if shortlisted.
Benefits of working for LFB
• 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Option Absence Scheme
• Flexible working including job share
• Welfare Scheme
• Use of Brigade Medical Adviser/physios
• Season ticket loans
• Equality Support Groups
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to access affordable accommodation
Additional Information
In line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed by successful candidates, which will include a basic criminal records check. Successful candidate will be required to declare any convictions for offences which are not spent under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and any offer of employment is subject to the LFC receiving a criminal records disclosure which it considers satisfactory. Successful candidates should apply to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to get a copy of their criminal record and share the original disclosure certificate with the LFC. The check will only show convictions that are not ‘spent’. It will cost the successful candidates £23 (current charge) and usually takes up to 14 days.
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