Head Of Building Safety

Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has an exciting opportunity available for an Head of Building Safety to join our team in Canterbury. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £62,464 - £68,144 per annum.

Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service

Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.?

About the role:

As an Head of Building Safety, you’ll be working with colleagues across the organisation, the Head of Building Safety will lead an innovative change agenda to improve our services and assure equal access for customers.

What you'll do:

• Ensure that statutory and legislative requirements are translated into effective practice and procedures, ensuring that the service meets statutory requirements and strategic objectives.
• Be responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures which address protection risks across Kent and Medway within legal and statutory guidelines.
• Be responsible for nurturing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate effective collaboration and communication.
• Develop the Authority’s Building Safety functions.

What you'll bring:

• Highly developed expertise in protection and in building strong relationships with other agencies and regulatory bodies.
• Significant experience across the range of this post.
• An understanding of the protection agenda and how to embed changes resulting from changes in legislation and national recommendations relating to best practice.
• Excellent communication skills and can work at all levels, including with partner agencies.
• In-depth experience of delivering transformational change projects.
• A commitment to creating an inclusive workplace.
• An ability to focus on providing excellent services to our customers.
• A management approach which is people focused, using coaching and an inclusive style.

Closing date: 23:59 hours on 25 June 2024

Interviews will take place 15 and/or 17 July 2024 and will include a presentation. 

If you feel have the skills and experience to become our Head of Building Safety please click ‘apply’ today, we’d love to hear from you!

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer. 

Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees and volunteers, are committed to safeguarding, protecting and supporting children, young people and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.  

As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.