Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service are looking for General Community Safety Advocates to join our Community Safety (Prevention) team on a casual ad-hoc basis. The role has been job evaluated to a Grade 3, and any work undertaken would be paid at an hourly rate of £13.69 per hour (non-lead) or £14.36 per hour (lead rate).

As a General Community Safety Advocate, you will promote and deliver community safety advice/education through various initiatives to communities within Devon and Somerset with the aim of reducing deaths and injuries caused by fire, road traffic collisions, water safety incidents and other emergencies. You will actively support Service objectives working with fire service personnel, partnership agencies and other third-party organisations.

Main responsibilities of the General Community Safety Advocate role:

-To promote and deliver Community Safety (CS) key messages to communities within Devon and Somerset, including targeting the most 'at risk' groups and engaging with communities with the most appropriate CS activity. In addition, responding to referrals from partnership agencies, key stakeholders and other third party organisations.

To promote, deliver and support core Community Safety activities as follows:

-Support Hot Strikes (where appropriate)
-Support public displays and CS events such as festivals and local community events.
-Support the generation of Home Safety Visit (HSV) referrals.
-Support Community Action Days
-Deliver presentations to groups / communities.
-Support CS visits on station.
-Deliver key messages from local and national campaigns.
-Deliver local bespoke CS activities designed to reduce risk in the Service area.
-To undertake and promote CS activities in accordance with line manager request and in line with appropriate Service policies, processes and guidelines.
-To undertake associated administration duties.
-To complete pre and post activity checks including resource replenishment and administration as required, including vehicle checks, logbooks and ensure resource readiness for future activity delivery.
-To support partnership and third party working by delivering single and/or joint activities to support safety and quality of life programmes including contributing to and developing partnership working initiatives with other DSFRS departments and external groups.
-To support the review and evaluation of CS activities.
-Organise and manage own workloads to ensure the most appropriate use of time commensurate with service needs as delegated by the CS management team.
-Review community safety resources relevant to area of subject matter expertise, escalating concerns to CS management team.
-Check and adhere to Service / CS risk assessments prior to undertaking CS activities.
-Evaluate and comply with quality assurance guidelines to ensure best practice.
-Ensure all e-learning is up to date and key competencies are up to date.

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