Head of Community Safety and Engagement
| Posting date: | 12 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | £57,886 to £63,661 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 June 2026 |
| Location: | Highfields Fire Station, Hassocks Lane, Nottingham, NG9 2GQ with work locations across Nottinghamshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Do you have a passion for working with people, making a difference, and improving people’s lives? Are you an outstanding leader, someone who lives and works by our Values and someone who wants to work for a progressive, caring, public-serving organisation? Do you have extensive experience of leading and managing a diverse team, driving improvement and delivering organisational change? If so, you sound like the perfect candidate for the role of Head of Community Safety and Engagement!
We are looking for someone with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong and constructive relationships, both between Departments and with partners and communities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of fire prevention initiatives as well as education and youth and community engagement activities.
This Head of Department role will provide direction and innovation to design and deliver activities which seek to improve our engagement with communities, their understanding of us and to support our workforce diversity. Close working with other service delivery departments is essential to ensure community safety and engagement activities are high quality and aligned to strategic objectives.
The ability to provide direction and leadership to a diverse team of specialists is essential. Designing and evaluating services based on data, evidence and evaluation of activities, to ensure that the team are reaching our target audiences, and are seeking continuous improvement from the activities they undertake, will be vital for this role.
We are looking for someone with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to form strong and constructive relationships, both between Departments and with partners and communities. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the delivery of fire prevention initiatives as well as education and youth and community engagement activities.
This Head of Department role will provide direction and innovation to design and deliver activities which seek to improve our engagement with communities, their understanding of us and to support our workforce diversity. Close working with other service delivery departments is essential to ensure community safety and engagement activities are high quality and aligned to strategic objectives.
The ability to provide direction and leadership to a diverse team of specialists is essential. Designing and evaluating services based on data, evidence and evaluation of activities, to ensure that the team are reaching our target audiences, and are seeking continuous improvement from the activities they undertake, will be vital for this role.
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