Building Fire Safety Advisor

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.

Being a ‘Building Fire Safety Advisor’

Are you an enthusiastic, outgoing team player, looking for a rewarding role, supporting the Kent and Medway business community to provide a safe environment from fire for their customers. 

This role offers an exceptional opportunity for you to liaise and engage with a variety of stakeholders, customers, and diverse communities to enhance their knowledge and understanding of fire safety, business resilience and continuity, to help their businesses to thrive.

The successful applicant will respond to enquiries from businesses/responsible persons with regards to fire safety, work with partner agencies, in identifying and disseminating information and knowledge relating to fire safety risks and businesses’ regulatory responsibilities. You will also deliver educational messages through a multitude of different platforms, including in person, social media outlets, seminars, as well as contributing to designing campaigns and risk reduction initiatives.  

Although the post holder will be based at Canterbury, they must be available to work from various locations across the County. You will be required to travel to other offices and locations, therefore a UK driving licence is essential.

What you’ll do

• Provide advice to businesses
• Attend workshops and seminars to support delivery of engagement opportunities for business within the community
• Information sharing and sign posting to national and technical guidance
• Working collaboratively with The Service’s engagement and communication teams to create content for web pages for internal and external customers including but not limited to, fire safety risk reduction initiative and any activities as appropriate and support other defined fire safety work streams

What you’ll bring

• Ability to manage your own time effectively and be able to quickly prioritise workload
• Ability to work to agreed deadlines, in line with set Local Performance Indicators (LPI’s)
• Ability to operate individually, as well as part of a team
• Ability to check your own work and good attention to detail
• Confidence in engaging with a diverse range of audiences
• Enthusiasm and be highly motivated

Benefits

• Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Blue Light Card discount scheme supported by a number of high street retailers
• A range of family friendly policies including promoting work-life balance
• Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
• Access to LinkedIn learning online training
• Free parking
• Above all you’ll become part of a service that is committed to the safety of our community

How to apply

Please complete an on-line application form and CV by midnight on 23 May 2025. 

Interviews will take place on 9, 11 and 12 June 2025. A presentation will form part of the interview. 

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.