Station Manager (Talent Pool Application Process)
Job Summary
Salary:
£45,861 Per Annum
Further Information
Station Managers in LFRS are key to embedding our values of being Professional, Honest and Positive and delivering our purpose of creating Safer People, Safer Places. LFRS is a great place to develop your management skills and knowledge whilst placing our community at the heart of all we do.
Applicants for our 2022 Station Manager Talent Pool process must be committed to developing themselves as managers and will be looking to prepare for future opportunities. We will be recruiting for permanent Station Manager posts throughout a range of departments during 2022 and 2023 via a role specific process. Applications will only be accepted from those already within the Station Manager Talent Pool and as such we are now inviting applications to enter our Talent Pool process.
Successful candidates will work the Flexible Duty System (FDS). Officers conditioned to the FDS system must provide a cover base from within the Leicester, Leicestershire or Rutland area.
Successful candidates will be required to serve at any location in the Service.
Application process
Entry to our Talent Pool is via a two stage process. Stage one involves a written application form via our recruitment portal. This application is your opportunity to tell us why you would be suitable for a Station Manager role within LFRS. Applications will be scored and if you are successful you will be invited to progress to stage two which will require attendance for a panel interview and job related tests.
In order to apply for the Station Manager Talent Pool process, you will need to be working within an existing fire authority and be:
• Working already as a Station Manager and looking to transfer
• A substantive Watch Manager
• A Watch Manager in a temporary role for in excess of two years
• Incident Command Level 2 qualified or willing to undertake
• Level 3 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent practical experience at Watch Manager.
• Hold a UK full driving licence.
• Able to show how you meet the competencies required of a Station Manager and how your actions meet the values and
behaviours of LFRS
If you are successful at both stages, you will be entered into our Station Manager Talent Pool. Future vacancies at Station Manager level within our Service will be advertised and recruited from this Talent Pool. Individual vacancies across a wide range of operational and support departments will be recruited via a role specific process for which details will be confirmed at the time of advertisement.
Further information is available via our FAQs document covering this process which is available within the supporting documentation on our external website.
To begin your application for our Station Manager Talent Pool process, please visit the recruitment pages of our website by clicking https://careers.leics-fire.gov.uk/.
Key Dates
• Opening date for Talent Pool applications: 9, August 2022
• Closing date for Talent Pool applications: 23, August 23:59 2022
• Interviews and job-related tests: 3 - 11, October 2022
• Results from: 12, October 2022
LFRS wish you every success with your application. You are strongly advised to familiarise yourself with our Values and Behaviours Competency Framework, which is available to download from our recruitment portal.
LFRS is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Furthermore, we want to create a work environment where everyone feels safe, can be themselves and can perform their roles to the best of their abilities. We have signed up with a number of nationally recognised organisations that promote equality, diversity and inclusion and we are working with them to help us achieve our objectives. These organisations include:
• Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI)
• Workplace Equality Index (WEI)
• Department of Works and Pension’s Disability Confident scheme
• British Sign Language Charter
• Asians in the Fire Service Association (AFSA)
Pension Considerations
Annual Allowance
Please note that it is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying/accepting this position it would result in any Annual Allowance implications. A breach in the Annual Allowance threshold could result in a Tax charge. Further information on Annual Allowance can be obtained from our Pensions team.
Lifetime Allowance
Please note that it is your personal responsibility to check whether by applying/accepting this position it would result in any Lifetime Allowance implications. A breach in the Lifetime Allowance threshold will result in a Tax charge. Further information on Lifetime Allowance can be obtained from our Pensions team.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.