Protection Hub Manager in Reading

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Protection Hub Manager to join the Protection function within Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service (RBFRS). Following a recent departmental restructure, we are seeking an experienced and collaborative leader to join our Protection Management team. Working alongside fellow managers, you will help provide strategic direction, professional leadership, and operational oversight across all elements of the Protection function.

This role carries significant responsibility for leading and ensuring a consistent approach to managing Protection activities across the East and West Hubs, ensuring activities are prioritised appropriately with suitable assurance and reporting processes in place.

Working closely with the Protection Group Manager and the wider management team, you will help ensure that work is prioritised effectively, aligned with organisational objectives, risk, and statutory duties. A crucial part of the role will be liaising with external partners to ensure a coordinated approach to managing the risk of unsafe buildings requiring remediation through regular engagement with Local Authorities and representatives from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).

At RBFRS, you will join a committed and high-performing leadership team. We are looking for someone who will actively demonstrate and promote behaviours aligned with the Job Profile and our Behavioural Competency Framework, and who shares our commitment to delivering excellent public service.

• Work alongside the GM Protection to develop a professional organisational culture within the Protection function, ensuring effective collaboration with other key stakeholders across the service recognising the key links to protection risk and Firefighter safety.
• Lead, coordinate and be accountable for Hub protection activities, ensuring activities are prioritised against risk and organisational objectives.
• Manage the use and allocation of uplift grant funding appropriately, providing suitable budget returns to central government with a clear audit of spending and compliance with grant conditions.
• Establish, develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders, partners and agencies at local, regional and national levels to deliver the Service’s strategies, purpose and aims.
• Manage the allocation of work to support multi-disciplinary teams for the Building Regulator (BSR), including the management of BSR grant funding through effective budget management.
• Ensure robust enforcement of the Fire Safety Order 2005 and Fire Safety England Regulations 2022, including legal proceedings, to uphold public safety and regulatory integrity.

• A sound understanding of Fire Safety processes, procedures and sector challenges.
• Minimum level 4 Diploma in Fire Safety.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to produce management reports and manage and monitor budgets.

The successful candidate will demonstrate and promote behaviours in line with the Job Profile/Person Specification and our Behaviour Competency Framework as attached. The Behavioural Competency Framework allows us to easily identify the behaviours that drive successful performance and enables us to deliver an effective service. The behaviours detailed within the job profile will be assessed throughout the selection process.

If you are interested in applying for this position, click Apply Now. Appointment is conditional upon undertaking an Enhanced DBS check. Rechecks will be required in line with the DBS and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy.

Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service values your individuality, your diversity and your dignity. All are welcome here. Inclusion, diversity and equality are principles which guide our decisions and will be visible throughout the Service, and we will continually work to improve in these areas. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture of dignity and trust where everyone feels safe and comfortable to bring their whole self to work.