Position: Community Safety Officer
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade F - £37,280 per annum
Location: Based at Matlock Fire Station
Hours: 37 hours per week, however you may occasionally need to work beyond normal office hours
Department: Prevention
Reports to: Community Safety Risk Reduction Manager
Closing date: Midnight on Sunday 5th October 2025
The successful applicant will be required to travel around Derbyshire (pool car provided).

ABOUT US:

At Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service, we’re more than an emergency servicewe’re a team of over 900 dedicated people working together to make Derbyshire safer every day. Whether it’s responding to emergencies, preventing incidents before they happen, or supporting our frontline teams behind the scenes, every role here makes a real difference.
We’re proud to be one of the country’s top-performing fire and rescue services, recently rated ‘Good’ in 9 out of 11 areas by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS). This recognition reflects the professionalism, progress, and dedication of our people. We continue to strive to be an outstanding Service and we know we have more to do.

Working as part of the Prevention Team you will deliver high level targeted intervention to those most at risk living within our communities. Working to reduce fire deaths, injuries and emergency response across Derby and Derbyshire and to promote Health and Wellbeing. We are looking for someone with previous experience in multi-agency working and complex case work. You will be required to undertake school, partnership and group talks centered on reducing the risks of fire, develop links with local partner agencies and carry out safe and well checks, which may involve the fitting of smoke alarms where necessary.
As part of your role, you will be required to work with people who are vulnerable and may be living, for a variety of reasons, in conditions that place them vulnerable to health, safety and wellbeing concerns. A non-judgmental, compassionate, and open-minded approach will therefore be a requisite characteristic of the successful candidate.
An understanding of how to signpost individuals into local services and Safeguarding is essential to the role alongside the workings of external agencies and the services they provide.
You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and have experience of presenting information to a wide variety of audiences including working with multi-agency settings. The preparation of reports and knowledge of performance monitoring is required.
Please see the attached Job Description/ Person Specification for more information about this exciting role.