Home Safety Advisor - Luton in Cornwall

Salary: Starting salary GBP 16,616 per annum rising to GBP 17,724 per annum

Basis: Part time

Package: 22.2 hours per week, Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), Holiday allowance of 25 days (pro rata) plus public holidays on joining.

Contractual Hours: 22.2

Region: South

Job Category: Support

Job Description: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Hours: 22.2 per week over 3 days, including Friday (flexitime) Based at Luton - with travel across the county

Are you passionate about keeping people safe in their homes? Do you want to make a real difference in your community? We are looking for a proactive, compassionate, and organised individual to join our Prevention Team. This role offers a 12-month opportunity for a Home Safety Advisor to help us expand our work with the Early Years Alliance’s Luton Safe at Home scheme. Safe at Home and Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service have worked together since 2009. We visit vulnerable families in their homes across the Luton area to deliver Child Safety advice and fit safety equipment alongside Home Fire Safety visits.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the Safe at Home team, confirming and delivering Home Fire and Safety Visits as appropriate using a risk-based approach.
• Provide safety advice and guidance, installing assistive technology and other safety equipment appropriate to the needs of the occupier and wider family, reducing the level of risk in the home.
• Carry out Home Fire and Safety Visits to people identified as being at risk of safety, fire, or health-related concerns.
• Where appropriate you will liaise with multi-agency partners to reduce risk and support the well-being of the residents you visit.
• Make relevant needs-based referrals to partner agencies and ensure stakeholders have the required information.
• Comply with the Service’s Safeguarding Policy and facilitate appropriate referrals to support vulnerable residents.
• Maintain knowledge of local support services and build relationships with partner agencies.
• Manage your diary, record Home Safety activities, and ensure referrals are processed and communicated to relevant partners.

About you

• Some experience of working in a fire, or injury prevention/health promotion capacity, risk management, customer service role or voluntary sector organisation.
• Some experience of working in situations requiring the ability to empathise whilst remaining professional, confidential and impartial.
• Some experience with working efficiently to organise own time and maintain safe working practices.
• Some experience, understanding and commitment to principles of community fire safety and well-being issues, particularly relating to risk reduction and safety education.
• Able to demonstrate a high standard of oral and written communication with the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate written and spoken English.
• Able to work flexibly, efficiently and reliably both independently and within a team structure.
• Possess emotional resilience and the ability to remain calm in potentially distressing situations.
• GCSE in Maths and English at grade 4 or above or equivalent, or a relevant vocational qualification at Level 2.
• Current full driving licence (manual or automatic) with no pending issues.
• Physically capable of performing appropriate lifting, carrying, loading and unloading of goods in compliance with Manual Handling Regulations and training.
• Ability to use power and hand tools to install equipment and assistive technology.

For more details about the key responsibilities and essential criteria required for the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Next steps

If this role is of interest, please visit our website for further information and to make a formal application. We ask that you include your full career history and reference your skills and experience in line with the job description and person specification within your application and supporting statement.

Closing date: Monday 2 February 2026

The selection process will take place on Friday 13 February 2026

This is a public-facing role, and it is essential to have the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English.

This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2023. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act.

The appointment will be made subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) clearance at the level required for the role.

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service’s recruitment and selection procedures reflect our commitment to safer recruitment, and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of Adults, Children and Young People and all staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment.

Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is an equal opportunities employer that welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, we encourage applications from those who have served, are serving, or are part of a military family. Your skills and experience are valued here.