The Role
Post: Safety First Booking Co-ordinator
Grade: FRS B
Starting salary: £24,671per annum
Salary range for the FRS B grade: £24,671 - £29,244 per annum
Status: Fixed-term / secondment until 01/06/2023
Closing date: Wednesday 30 October 2019 at 16:00 GMT
London Fire Brigade is one of the largest firefighting and rescue organisations in the world and the busiest in the country. As an organisation we are committed to delivering our services in ways that best suit the needs of our communities. Whilst emergency response is a critical part of what we do, London Fire Brigade proudly acknowledge the effectiveness we have in improving lives through the delivery of our fire and community safety activities particularly our work with children and young people.
The Education Team Booking Co-ordinator role will be a key part of a team responsible for overseeing the delivery of a new project called ‘Safety First’ in secondary schools and other educational establishments in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service to reduce fire and related risks and build safer communities across London’s communities.
Responsible for overseeing the co-ordination with secondary schools, you will have excellent organisational, planning and project management skills, have great attention to detail as well as effective communication and writing skills.
If you want to be part of a new project and lead on setting up processes and systems to ensure delivery to children and young people is consistent then we would love to hear from you.
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.
Please note any correspondence received from us will be via e-mail and sent to the address you provide on your application form.
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
As part of the online application form, candidates must provide evidence to address the following criteria:
Selection Criteria 1 - Experience of organising, planning and prioritising work; meeting deadlines and targets while working flexibly within a team.
Selection Criteria 2 -Experience of using a range of Information Technology applications (the Brigade currently uses the Microsoft suite of applications), 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.
Selection Criteria 3 - Excellent oral communication skills in order to deliver educational workshops effectively and the ability to communicate with people in a polite and helpful manner in order to exchange information and to offer advice and assistance in person or over by phone.
Selection Criteria 4 - Good organisational skills in order to plan and prioritise own workload and that of the team.
Assessment for this role is due to place from mid/late-November 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
In line with the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) employment checks will be completed by successful candidates, which will include an enhanced 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.
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