Border Force - Operational Logistics - Fire Safety Officer (includes optional Leadership & Management Apprenticeship)

Border Force - Operational Logistics - Fire Safety Officer (includes optional Leadership & Management Apprenticeship) Croydon, England

Home Office
Full Time Croydon, England 32000 - 39600 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

283095

Salary

£32,000 - £39,600
National: £32000 - £35200 London: £36000 - £39600

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HO - Borders and Enforcement - Border Force

Type of role

Health and Safety

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

Apollo House - Croydon, Martello House - Folkestone & Norman House - Portsmouth

About the job

Job summary

Border Force is a Law Enforcement arm of the Home Office. We are responsible for handling the UK border control by implementing immigration and customs regulations and working with the wider Home Office on counter terrorism, organised crime, modern slavery and trafficking. Learn more on the Border Force careers page.

Job description

This role is based within the Border Force Health and Safety team, part of Operational Logistics. The successful candidate will be expected to support the legislative requirement for fire safety within Border Force. The role will operate within their area of operations working under the Fire Safety Senior Officer and supported by a network of volunteers. The role supports regional management through effective fire safety advice and support.

This is a varied and interesting position looking at the management systems, audits, inspections, investigations, and training in relation to fire safety. It's a new post which will ensure the successful delivery of Fire Safety objectives by:

  • Reviewing Buildings Fire Emergency Plans (FEPs) for properties within the region providing advice and action plans.
  • Ensuring Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) are reviewed as required for all properties within the region.
  • Supporting the fire senior officer with a range of fire safety duties.
  • Conducting investigations into fire safety matters.
  • Holding fire safety training and awareness sessions
  • Working in conjunction with the other Fire Safety Manager Business Partners will organise continued professional development events for fire safety community on quarterly and annual basis.
  • Monitoring inboxes to resolve fire safety queries.
  • Conducting routine data trend analysis to support continuous improvement.

There will be a requirement for regular travel to all ports across the Border Force regions and local port attendance currently set at 40% of your time, as well as some travel across the UK and internationally.

Due to this requirement you are required to hold a full valid UK driving licence in order to apply for this role.

The successful candidate must be willing to undertake continuous professional development in the Health and Safety profession and maintain professional memberships in relation to fire safety.

Person specification

The successful candidates will be asked to:

  • To assist in developing and maintaining a positive professional relationship with senior managers in the Border Force Region or Headquarters.
  • To assist in the reviewing and analysing of Management Information on Fire Safety issues, identifying trends and causes, recommending action where appropriate, and managing delivery or completion of action plans.
  • To assist with the development of Border Force Health and Safety procedures, guidance, and policies while addressing the risk profile within the Border Force Region and Headquarters.
  • To support the wider fire team, ensuring KPIs are delivered on time.

You may be required to carry out other duties within the scope of your grade and within the limits of your skill, competence and training.

Essential criteria

  • Excellent communication skills to provide written and verbal advice and guidance, including drafting of reports.
  • Experience of demonstrating visible commitment to promoting fire safety aims and objectives.
  • Ability to accurately contribute to Health, safety and fire matters, identifying issues, challenging behaviours and providing concise recommendations.
  • Investigative mind-set to be able to identify immediate, underlying and root causes of accidents and incidents in relation to fire safety.
  • Able to conduct trend analysis of relevant Health and Safety data.
  • Must be a competent organiser and planner.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience in an operational Border Force, Law Enforcement, Fire Service or Military equivalent role.
  • Fire risk assessment level 3 qualification (or willing to undertake within first 6 months of appointment).
  • OSH (Institution of Occupational Health and Safety) Managing Safely qualification (or willing to undertake within first 6 months of appointment).

Licences

Hold a full Valid UK driving licence either manual or Automatic

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Making Effective Decisions
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Developing Self and Others
  • Working Together

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

  • Learning and development tailored to your role
  • An environment with flexible working options
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
  • A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

  • A statement of suitability (personal statement) (maximum 750 words)
  • Provide evidence of the behaviour Making Effective Decisions (250 words maximum)

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please note your statement of suitability should be aligned to demonstrate your skills and experience for the role and how you meet the Essential criteria as detailed in the job advertisement.

For guidance on how to construct your personal statement, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links – Statement

For guidance on how to construct your behaviour examples, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers. Links –Behaviours

Sift will be completed on the Statement of Suitability (personal statement). Which will be marked first. Candidates who meet the minimum pass score for the suitability of statement, will then go on to have their behaviour scored.

Candidates who fail to meet the minimum pass score for the suitability of statement will not have their behaviour scored.

However, if a large number of applications are received, the sift will be conducted on the statement of suitability only.

Candidates who are shortlisted will be invited to an interview which is a blended approach of strength-based questions and behaviour based questions.

Sift and Interview dates

Sift is expected to take place week commencing 8th May 2023.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 29th May 2023.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert, however on occasions these dates may change.

Due to time constraints, we may not be able to offer alternative interview date(s). It is therefore expected that candidates who are successful at sift stage will make themselves available during the above time frame given.

Interviews will be carried out via video. Candidates will be required to have access to:

  • A laptop (personal or work) with a working webcam
  • Good internet connection
  • Skype for Business/Microsoft Teams

Further Information

For meaningful checks to be carried out, individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years if the role requires CTC clearance, 5 years for SC clearance and 10 years for DV. A lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointment may be made.

When completing your application you will have the opportunity to select your preferred location(s). Please ensure you select the location you are interested in. Candidates who are successful at Interview will be placed in order of merit per location and provisional job offers will be made in strict merit order per location preference. Provisional offers are made, as they are on condition that you successfully pass all pre-employment checks.

Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. All applications are screened for plagiarism and copying of examples/answers from internet sources. If any is detected the application will be withdrawn from the process.

Further action, including disciplinary action, may be considered in such cases involving internal candidates. Providing false or misleading information would be contrary to the core values of honesty and integrity expected of all Civil Servants.

If you are currently an agency member of staff working within the Home Office, a contractor or contingent worker you can only apply for roles that are advertised externally, i.e. outside the civil service. If you are eligible to apply for a role, you are required to select yourself as an external applicant and not internal when submitting your application on Civil Service jobs. This will prevent any delays in pre-employment checks should you become successful in being made an offer of employment after the Interview stage.

Are these Reserved Posts for UK Nationals only?

UK nationals who hold dual nationality are able to apply for this reserved post. If a UK passport is not being presented, then candidates will need to provide alternative evidence of UK nationality in line with the Civil Service Nationality Rules.

If you are considering applying for part time hours, please contact [email protected] to discuss your request as not all working patterns may be accommodated.

Leadership and Management Higher Officer Apprenticeship

As part of our commitment to your development, following successful recruitment and onboarding, you will be offered the chance to enrol onto our Leadership and Management apprenticeship programme.

This apprenticeship offers you a fantastic opportunity to learn and develop your leadership and management skills while operating in a frontline Border Force environment. Following successful completion of the programme you will gain a nationally recognised qualification.

The Leadership and Management Team Leader Level 3 programme provides practical learning on different leadership styles, organisational cultures, team management models and the importance of personal development.

As part of the apprenticeship enrolment process you will undertake an enhanced eligibility assessment with the programme provider. If following this assessment, it emerges you do not meet eligibility, you will receive comparable Leadership and Management training through an in-house offer.

This Leadership training will enable ultimate recognition of excellence in this area and will be a pre-requisite of being able to compete effectively for higher level roles in Border Force and the Home Office.

About the Apprenticeship

You must have GCSE, or equivalent, Grade C or above in Maths and English or are willing to complete level 2 Maths and English functional skills by the end of the apprenticeship.

The Leadership and Management Apprenticeship programme takes approximately 12 - 18 months to complete.

This is a Level 3 apprenticeship – equivalent to an A Level qualification.

You will spend approximately 20% of your time undertaking off-the-job learning activities, including face-to-face workshops, digital courses, mentoring and job shadowing.

You will undertake an End-Point Assessment (EPA) at the end of the scheme, which you will need to pass in order to complete your apprenticeship.

Appearance


As part of this role you will be required to wear a uniform (which will be provided). Staff must ensure that their uniform is worn correctly, in line with these uniform standards, is kept clean and is well presented. To support this requirement, adequate uniform supplies will be available and issued. Uniformed staff represent their organisation at all times and should ensure that their dress and personal appearance reflects this responsibility.

Tattoos, including henna


A non-offensive visible tattoo is permissible, as long as it is not on the face or on the front or side of the neck (above the collar line). Tattoos behind the ear lobe on the back of the neck are also acceptable within these policy guidelines. You will be required to cover tattoos, when it is seen as appropriate for certain official events, e.g. State Funerals, Opening of Parliament, Remembrance Parades and other Ceremonial events. Under no circumstances should tattoos which could be considered offensive be visible. Examples of these include discriminatory; offensive; undermine political neutrality i.e. rude, lewd, crude, racist, sexist, sectarian, homophobic or violent tattoos.

Personal Safety Training (PST)

These roles can be physically demanding and if successful you will be required to complete and pass specialist training including Personal Safety Training (PST) which develops skills in personal safety, arrest and restraint techniques. This demands physical activity and physical contact with delegates on the course. You will be required to complete a PST health declaration and, if necessary, attend a medical examination. A formal offer will be conditional upon you being physically fit to undertake and pass the training.

Hybrid working is an option:

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in their workplace(s) and partly at home. A hybrid working pattern may be available, where business needs allow. Applicants can discuss what this means with the vacancy holder if they have specific questions.

Every day, Home Office civil servants do brilliant work to develop and deliver policies and services that affect the lives of people across the country and beyond. To do this effectively and fairly, the Home Office is committed to representing modern Britain in all its diversity, and creating a welcoming, inclusive workplace where all our people are able to bring their whole selves to work and perform at their best.

We are flexible, skilled, professional and diverse. We work to recruit and retain disabled staff and area Disability Confident Leader. We are proud to be one of the most ethnically diverse departments in the civil service. We are a Social Mobility Foundation top 75 employer.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

For further information please see the attached notes for candidates which must be read before making an application.

Existing Civil Servants should note that some of the Home Office terms and conditions of employment have changed. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the Terms and Conditions they will adopt should they be successful in application and should refer to the notes for candidates for further details.

Transfer Terms: Voluntary.

If you are invited to an interview you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks.

Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.

Any move to the Home Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Additional Security Checks

Additional Security Checks: As well as successfully obtaining UKSV clearance and passing the right to work and pre-employment screening, anyone who applies to work for Border Force will also be subject to additional Border Force specific security checks, as part of the pre-employment process, to determine their suitability to work for the organisation.

Please see the Home Office Recruitment Privacy Information Notice (PIN) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/recruitment-privacy-information-notice for more information on how your details may be shared for the purpose of additional security checks.

Reasonable Adjustments

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

  • Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
  • Complete the “Assistance Required” section in the “Additional Requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.

Feedback


Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team :

Further information

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

Border Force - Operational Logistics - Fire Safety Officer (includes optional Leadership & Management Apprenticeship)
Home Office

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