Prevention Evaluation and Quality Assurance Officer – West Midlands Fire Service

Prevention Evaluation and Quality Assurance Officer – West Midlands Fire Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Prevention Team as the Evaluation and Quality Assurance Officer on a temporary basis for up to nine months initially. Whilst this role is a Grey Book post within the service’s establishment, the temporary role is open to both grey and green book staff. Grey book applicants would be required to work a nine-day fortnight and provide operational resilience, pro rata, against the 22-shift requirement for the length of time in post.

Those eligible to express an interest in the role are:

• Green book – Professional 3A, Technical 2A or Administration 1A or above.
• Grey book – Watch Managers who are either 'ready' on promotion list, or existing Watch Managers wishing to transfer.

Working directly to the Prevention Development and Improvement Team Manager, the successful candidate will be working across Prevention and Operations to ensure that the new Evaluation and Quality Assurance Frameworks are further developed and embedded into our service delivery, and that the outcomes from the application of both frameworks are actioned to improve the services that we provide to our West Midlands communities.

The postholder will play an integral role in supporting the ongoing development and improvement of the Evaluation and Quality Assurance Frameworks so that they are aligned to, and incorporate all, the prevention activities and education programmes delivered by Prevention and Operations.

You will be responsible for the coordination, support and guidance of the evaluation and quality assurance of all partnerships, prevention activity and educational programmes, supporting teams to develop and deliver consistent evaluation and quality assurance for the prevention activities they are responsible for.

The role will require close collaboration and engagement both internally and externally to contribute towards ‘Making the West Midlands safer, stronger and healthier’.

Key to your success will be your highly developed interpersonal skills, your ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, and in building and maintaining professional working relationships with the wider Prevention Team, Operations and internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support evaluation and quality assurance of prevention activities and educational programmes, ensuring that evaluation and quality assurance is explicit within all plans and activity.
• Identify and develop consistent evaluation and quality assurance tools and methods.
• Ensure that evaluation and quality assurance is delivered consistently for all partnerships, prevention activities and education programmes.
• Support evaluation and quality assurance of the content, delivery and achievement of learning outcomes for training for the delivery of Prevention activities and education programmes.
• Report, communicate and share findings, good practice and lessons learned.

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