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Operational Wholetime Watch Manager B
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Location: Ascot Drive
Salary: A GBP 50,034 per annum
Vacancy Type: Permanent (42 hours per week worked on a 9 :day fortnight basis)
At Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, we're more than an emergency service: we're a team of over 900 dedicated people working together to make Derbyshire safer every day. Whether it's responding to emergencies, preventing incidents before they happen, or supporting our frontline teams behind the scenes, every role here makes a real difference.
We're proud to be one of the country's top-performing fire and rescue services, recently rated Good in 9 out of 11 areas by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS). This recognition reflects the professionalism, progress, and dedication of our people. We continue to strive to be an outstanding Service and we know we have more to do.
Lead, Inspire and Develop the Future of Fire Safety
We are seeking an ambitious and motivated Watch Manager to join our Fire Safety Team.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader to develop a career in fire safety while managing and leading a team of highly skilled Fire Safety Inspectors who help keep our communities safe.
Whilst previous fire safety experience would be advantageous, it is not essential. We are looking for an exceptional people leader with a passion for learning, development, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will undertake a structured Apprenticeship Programme, Leading To Nationally Recognised Fire Safety Qualifications and supporting the development of specialist knowledge and competence within the role.
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This position offers a unique opportunity to combine operational leadership experience with professional development in a specialist area of the Fire and Rescue Service.
About The Role
As a Watch Manager within the Fire Safety Team, you will:
- Lead, motivate, and develop a team of experienced Fire Safety Inspectors.
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on professionalism, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Manage team performance, wellbeing, and development.
- Support the delivery of risk-based fire safety activities across the Service area.
- Ensure the team delivers high-quality inspections, audits, and enforcement activities in line with relevant legislation and Service standards.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake and successfully complete a Fire Safety apprenticeship programme, achieving the required professional qualifications and competence standards.
- Contribute to the strategic development of Fire Safety services and community risk reduction initiatives.
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What We're Looking For
We are interested in hearing from candidates who can demonstrate:
Essential Criteria
- Evidence of aligning to the Code of Ethics and applying them in your role as a Supervisory Manager and across the Service.
- Operational Competence
- Operational Effectiveness
- Personal Impact
- Outstanding Leadership
- Service Delivery
- Organisational Effectiveness
- Provide examples of your successful performance when working at Supervisory Manager level.
- Evidence of personal development at Supervisory Manager level.
- Provide examples of successfully managing people at Supervisory Manager level.
- Competency in the current role which includes completion of all development/training and currency in all core skills.
- Current local authority substantive competent Wholetime or On-Call Crew Manager looking for promotion, or existing Watch Managers looking to transfer. NB This process is specific to the posts advertised. Successful candidates will therefore only be offered this role.
- Proven experience of leading, managing, and developing highly motivated teams.
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to inspire, influence, and support people.
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