Head of Community Safety and Engagement – Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Head of Community Safety and Engagement37 Hours Per Week (Monday – Friday)PermanentJoint Headquarters, Sherwood Lodge, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 8PPDo you have a passion for working with people, making a difference, and improving people’s lives? Are you an outstanding leader, someone who lives and works by our Values and someone who wants to work for a progressive, caring, public-serving organisation? If so, you might be the perfect candidate for the role of Head of Community Safety and Engagement!This position requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong, constructive relationships with colleagues, partners and communities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of fire prevention initiatives as well as education and youth and community engagement activities.This Head of Department role will provide direction and innovation to design and deliver activities which seek to improve engagement with communities, their understanding of us and to support our workforce diversity. Close collaboration with other service delivery departments is essential to ensure community safety and engagement activities are high quality and aligned to strategic objectives.The ability to provide direction and leadership to a diverse team of specialists is essential. Designing and evaluating services based on data, evidence and evaluation of activities, to ensure that the team are reaching target audiences and are seeking continuous improvement from the activities they undertake, will be vital for this role.Further InformationWe are proud to be an equal opportunities’ and ‘Disability Confident’ employer, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all parts of our communities and particularly those who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are also proud of being recognised as a ‘Gold’ employer for our Armed Forces Covenant commitments.NFRS is committed to the safeguarding and protection of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and or neglect and operates a safer recruitment process.The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and a Police Vetting check. Applicants must have been a resident in the UK for the last 3 years to be eligible for a Police Vetting check.Candidates who have been successful at the initial shortlisting stage will be asked to produce a report (title to be confirmed) and take part in a stakeholder panel and, if successful at that stage, a final interview process.Application Closing date: Monday 20th October 2025 at 0900hrsStakeholder Panel: 10th November 2025Interview date: 20th November 2025

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