Prevention and Safeguarding Lead in Stone

Location: Fire Service Headquarters, Pirehill, Stone, Staffs, ST15 0BS

Salary: Grade 10 (£47,181 - £50,269 p.a.)

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Responsible to: Head of Prevent, Protect & Partnerships

Do you want to make a difference in your community? Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service prides itself on the high standard of service it provides and every role has an important part to play in helping keep Staffordshire safe. Every role in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue, including those in the shared service, exists to support the overall aim of achieving a safer and more sustainable community. This can take many forms, including conducting Home Fire Risk Checks, marketing the service to the community, coordinating training, or taking calls in our contact centre.

As you can imagine, achieving our overall aim depends on a variety of people with a range of skills, backgrounds, and experiences.

About The Opportunity

The county of Staffordshire is diverse in its geography and its cultures, and is 2713 square kilometres in size. It is made up of the cities of Stoke-on-Trent and Lichfield, and the major towns of Stafford, Burton-upon-Trent, Cannock, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Tamworth and Leek. We have 33 Fire Stations across the county.

Staffordshire Fire & Rescue (SFRS) have an exciting opportunity if you would like to be instrumental in delivering our Prevention, Partnership & Safeguarding Strategy. As our Prevention & Safeguarding Lead you will provide leadership and direction to our dedicated Local Prevention Teams, Education Team, Contact Centre, Fire & Health Partnership Teams, and Volunteers, in our aim to make Staffordshire communities safer and stronger.

You will play a pivotal role in implementing and ensuring the effective delivery of our Annual Service Delivery Plan, Road Safety Delivery Plan, Secondary Fire Prevention Plan, and Education policies. To do this you will build new, and develop existing, partnerships that help us deliver better outcomes for our communities.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Design, lead and implement the Prevention, Safeguarding and Education offer for the Service, as required to meet the strategic objectives of the organisation.
• Deliver objectives in relation to the performance management framework, measuring prevent and safeguarding activities.
• Ensure that new and existing prevention activity is based on, and delivered to, those most at risk.
• Identify, implement and maintain external partnerships, which improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of our communities.
• Responsible for ensuring the workforce is adequately trained in prevention and safeguarding activities.
• Ensure the workforce has access to suitable and sufficient software and hardware for the recording of prevention and safeguarding data, which enables accurate reporting of data/measures.
• Responsible for ensuring provision and upkeep of all Prevention, Safeguarding and Education related policies.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of regional and national approaches to Prevention, Safeguarding and Education and implement/adopt as necessary.
• Line management responsibility for the Prevention Managers (x3).
• Work in conjunction with Marketing and Communications to ensure a joined up approach to Prevention messaging and campaigns.
• Ensure the Service complies with, or is working towards, achievement of relevant fire standards.
• Responsibility for overseeing prevention budgets ensuring spending remains within agreed limits and authorisation of spend.
• Oversee the Services Volunteering offer ensuring it is effective and periodically reviewed, making recommendations for change as and when required.

Person Specification

Essential Skills And Experience Include:

• Extensive management experience.
• Relevant safeguarding knowledge and experience.
• Knowledge and experience of working within the Intervention and Community Safety arena.
• Knowledge and experience of working with prevention programmes.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills (written and verbal) in order to facilitate essential communication, both internally and with stakeholders and partners.

Desirable Skills Include:

• Level 4 Safeguarding trained.
• Experience of working with vulnerable groups.
• Knowledge of the Voluntary Sector.
• Knowledge of Safer Recruitment and DBS procedures.
• Knowledge of policy and bid writing.

If you are driven, resilient, and passionate about leading people to deliver outstanding results, we would encourage you to apply. In return, we offer a rewarding role where your leadership will make a tangible difference to the communities we serve.

Further details of the key tasks, responsibilities can be found within the role profile.

How To Apply

Please submit your CV along with a cover letter outlining your suitability for the role.

Closing Date: Friday 6th February 2026 at 12pm Midday

Interviews are anticipated to take place in 2 stages for 2 weeks from week commencing 16th February till 27th February so you will need to be available for these dates.

In addition to your salary, you will have access to a range of benefits including:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement
• Generous Pension Scheme
• Access to Gyms & Fitness Advisor
• Free Parking at Most Sites
• Enhanced Maternity Package
• Occupational Health
• Well-being Champions
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Eye Tests
• Flexible Working Scheme
• The Firefighter Charity
• Cycle Scheme
• Blue Light Card
• Flamesavers
• Rewards for rescue
• Say So
• Development Programme
• Trade Unions
• Career Breaks
• Physiotherapy
• TRiM
• Employment Network
• Fostering Friendly

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

Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service is fully supportive of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and strives to employ a workforce that represents the community we serve. Our vacancies are open to everyone and all appointments are made based on merit. We encourage and welcome applications from all underrepresented groups which include: Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, female, people who have a disability, those who are neurodivergent and persons of the LGBTQ+ community.

We use positive action to encourage potential candidates from underrepresented groups through targeted step-In support and advice sessions. If you have the skills, experience and values, that here in Staffordshire Fire and Rescue we pride ourselves on, then we would welcome you to apply.