States of Jersey Fire & Rescue Service
Join our leadership team
We’re a service on the move and we are ambitious. Validated through independent review, the Chief Fire Officer has secured significant support and investment from the Government of Jersey and the wider States Assembly (Jersey’s parliament). This investment supports an increase in the number of firefighters, enhancing our fire safety prevention and protection, operational policy and training functions as well as senior leadership roles.
The next few years represent a generational opportunity for the service. We’ve developed a new Organisation Development Plan, as well as an Operational Improvement Plan and are already delivering against them. Investing in our operational response and skills as well as our people, prioritising leadership, culture and wellbeing.
The nature of life in Jersey means that the States of Jersey Fire & Rescue Service is the only fire and rescue service in the island. This, and the dynamic and independent nature of our island jurisdiction means our role is broad and complex.
From fires and rescues on land and at sea, road traffic collisions, rescues from height and incidents with hazardous substances, the scope of our firefighters’ work is very wide for a team of its size, and the impact of their work is felt on a daily basis. As well as emergency response and resilience, our work covers island-wide regulation of fire safety protection, petroleum and explosives, as well as the full range of prevention activity.
We are a small, national service. Jersey is self-governing and there is no equivalent of the UK’s Home Office Public Safety Group and so our senior team are able to make change through direct, professional advice to the Minister for Justice and Home Affairs. This includes advising on and developing policy and legislation and is enabled by good working relationships with ministers and officials in partner government departments.
And we still haven’t mentioned Island life. Not only will your professional exposure be significant, as will your opportunity to live an active outdoor life......all on your doorstop with no commute.
If you would like to find out more about joining us, then please email us so we can arrange a discussion.
Station Commander
We are a small service with a truncated leadership structure, but we are responsible for ‘national’ functions and a busy and complex operating environment and so our Station Commanders need to operate across Station, Group and Area Manager Role Maps. Depending on the portfolio area, the role will report to an Area Commander or directly to the Deputy Chief Fire Officer.
Working alongside senior colleagues, as well as deputising for your Area Commander or representing the DCFO, you will:
- Provide positive, visible and engaging leadership, striving for excellence in service delivery and playing a critical role in delivering our Organisational Development Plan;
- Be responsible for a portfolio of functions, either in response and resilience or in operational policy, risk and assurance and;
- Form part of the Station Commander rota, leading and supporting people to resolve emergencies at the tactical and advanced tactical levels.
To be successful you will:
- Be credible, compelling and diplomatic, motivating colleagues and inspiring confidence in the service;
- Be operating at the ‘Leading the Function’ level in the National Fire Chiefs Council’s Leadership Framework as a strategic manager in a Fire and Rescue Service;
- Be competent and current in incident command at Levels 2 and 3;
- Be passionate, skilful and effective as a people leader, innovating and empowering those around you and;
- Be confident leading teams through complexity and ambiguity and responding to people and community needs.
Application deadline: 9 April
If you are interested in the role and would like to find out more, then please email Jane Philpott, Deputy Chief Fire Officer or apply below.
Find out why one of our team members relocated to Jersey here
Deputy Chief Fire Officer
We are a very small service but our role, in protecting a small, island nation is influential and varied because we shape and drive the development of legislation as well as enforcing it and Jersey is home to a notable range of hazards and risks that we must be able to respond to. This means our Deputy Chief Fire Officer needs to be a proven strategic thinker with broad experience, covering not only prevention, protection and response but the full scope of corporate functions at the strategic level.
As well as deputising for the Chief Fire Officer in delivering the Minister’s priorities, the role of the DCFO is to:
- Provide a positive, visible and engaging leadership presence across the service, for leadership team colleagues and more broadly in the communities we serve;
- Supported by two Area Commanders, lead the delivery of prevention, protection and response services, including SJFRS’s role in the island’s wider resilience agenda;
- Supported by a dedicated team, lead on operational policy, improvement, innovation, risk and assurance and;
- Form part of the strategic command rota, leading and supporting people to resolve larger and more complex emergencies.
To be successful you will:
- Be credible, compelling and diplomatic with the ability to work confidently at the political level as well as with stakeholders;
- Be operating at the strategic ‘Leading the Service’ level in the National Fire Chiefs Council’s Leadership Framework as a strategic manager (Area Manager or above) in a Fire and Rescue Service;
- Be competent and current in incident command at Levels 3 and 4;
- Be passionate, skilful and effective as a people leader, innovating and empowering those around you and;
- Be confident leading teams through complexity and ambiguity and responding to people and community needs.
Application deadline: 24 April
If you are interested in the role and would like to know more through an informal discussion, please contact Paul Brown, Chief Fire Officer on 01534 445906 or via S.Admin@gov.je
Find out why one of our team members relocated to Jersey here
Area Commander
We’re a Service on the move and we are ambitious. Our small ‘island nation’ context creates a complex and challenging operating environment and we want you to help lead us through our generational opportunity to develop.
Working alongside senior colleagues, as well as deputising for the Deputy Chief Fire Officer when required, you will:
- Provide positive, visible and engaging leadership across our wholetime and on-call teams, ensuring effective emergency response, including the Fire Control function;
- Working with the Area Commander (Fire Safety) to support the delivery of the service’s prevention and protection priorities;
- Ensure SJFRS is a good partner in Jersey’s wider resilience agenda and;
- Form part of the strategic command rota, leading and supporting people to resolve larger and more complex emergencies.
To be successful you will:
- Be credible, compelling and diplomatic with the ability to work confidently at the political level as well as with stakeholders;
- Be operating at the strategic ‘Leading the Service’ level in the National Fire Chiefs Council’s Leadership Framework as a strategic manager in a Fire and Rescue Service;
- Be competent and current in incident command at Levels 3 and 4;
- Be passionate, skilful and effective as a people leader, innovating and empowering those around you and;
- Be confident leading teams through complexity and ambiguity and responding to people and community needs.
Application deadline: 24 April
If you are interested in the role and would like to know more through an informal discussion, please contact Paul Brown, Chief Fire Officer on 01534 445906 or via S.Admin@gov.je
Find out why one of our team members relocated to Jersey here