Emergency Planning Support Officer
£24,496 - £26,845 pa
37 hrs per week
12months Fixed Term
Service Headquarters, Huntingdon
(We offer a flexible, agile, hybrid working pattern where you can work from Cambridgeshire Fire & Rescue Service HQ and other locations around Cambridgeshire, as well as from home, to meet the team and organisations’ needs)
About the Role:
Are you an experience administrator looking for something different? This is an exciting opportunity to join our fun, forward-thinking Fire and Rescue Service supporting the wider Local resilience forum partnership.
If you like every day being different and want to work with our dynamic front line colleagues, support teams and the community by providing support to other essential partners that deal with emergencies including Police, Ambulance, Local Authorities, NHS and Environment agency (to name a few) then this role would be great for you.
This is a newly established key role which will provide essential support to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Resilience Forum (CPLRF). You will contribute to the effective provision of secretarial, administration and support services, ensuring that business support services are delivered to a high standard for the CPLRF.
About You:
You will have a clear passion for business administration and bring that passion with you into CFRS. A people person with strong administration skills, your ability to build relationships will allow you to really support the Forum.
In addition, we will look to you to have the following:
- Clerical/Customer Service experience
- Experience of handling and maintaining computerised records / data files
- Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Office packages
- Good typing/word processing skills
- Competent minute taking
- Able to work as part of a team to deliver services
- Confident telephone manner
- Articulate communicator, able to present and explain issues verbally and in writing.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective working relationships and maintain rapport with others - able to communicate in a friendly, open and constructive manner
If you do not fully meet the requirements but believe that you can clearly demonstrate in other ways the range of valuable skills, experience and knowledge recognised as relevant and important to this role, we would welcome hearing from you.
About us:
Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is one of the best Fire and Rescue Services in the country. In our last inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate for Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) we were noted as good, specifically around promoting the right values and culture, getting the right people with the right skills, ensuring fairness, promoting diversity, managing performance, and developing leaders.
Our vision is for a safe community where there are no preventable deaths or injuries in fires or other emergencies. To achieve this, we put people at the centre of everything we do. Without our welcoming, friendly, and supportive environment we would not be the Service we are today.
Why work for Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS)?
We promote the right values and an inclusive culture by:
- ensuring fairness, promoting diversity and developing colleagues to achieve their potential
- being Disability Confident employer
- providing health and well-being support
- offering flexible, agile hybrid working
- having Inclusion ambassadors, a network and working groups for protected characteristics
Our offer:
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to Health Cash Plan
- A competitive pension scheme
- Access to Blue Light Discount at 100s of stores & events
- Access to Health Shield Perks Discounts
- Family friendly policies – including flexible working
- Great Learning & Development Opportunities
- 24 days annual leave each year plus bank holidays, increasing with long service
- Parking (site specific)
- Flexible, agile, hybrid working
To find out more about working for us please click here: Cambsfire.gov.uk
How to Apply
To apply for this opportunity please submit your CV and Covering Letter (detailing your suitability for the role in line with the person specification) *Please note any CVs submitted without a Covering Letter will not be considered.
We have the right to close this advert at any time.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £24,496.00-£26,845.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Store discount
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Application question(s):
- Do you hold a Full UK Driving Licence?*
*Reasonable adjustment will be made for those candidates who may have a disability under the Equality Act 2010. However, it is essential that the successful candidate can travel to any part of the county when required
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cambridgeshire, PE29 2NA
Reference ID: CFRS/EPSO/Aug23
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