Senior Safety & Resilience Officer
Senior Safety and Resilience Officer
£36,363 - £40,777 - Pay award pending
Full time - 37 hours a week
Rugby Borough Council is dedicated to both Community and Colleague growth. With a focus on wellbeing and personal development, we offer a range of career opportunities where you can take pride in the positive changes you help create. Join an organisation committed to the success of one of the Country’s fastest-growing boroughs and the people who make it thrive.
About the role
Rugby Borough Council is seeking to strengthen its Safety & Resilience Team with a Senior Safety & Resilience Officer specialising in emergency planning and business continuity.
This role complements the existing team by providing dedicated leadership on the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the Council’s emergency planning and business continuity arrangements.
You will play a key role in enhancing organisational resilience, ensuring robust preparedness, response and recovery capabilities, while supporting the wider Health & Safety function.
You will lead on ensuring the Council is prepared for a range of emergencies and disruptive events, including risk assessment and the development, maintenance and testing of plans, procedures and records in line with the Civil Contingencies Act 2004. You will also support and, where required, participate in the Council’s response to emergencies and major incidents.
Working closely with the Warwickshire Local Resilience Forum (LRF) as a partner agency, you will coordinate the Council’s engagement, including attendance at meetings and delivery of actions arising, ensuring effective collaboration and representation.
The role involves working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to actively promote a culture of resilience across the organisation.
This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-performing team that drives a proactive, compliant safety and resilience culture across the Council, ensuring adherence to corporate policies, procedures and statutory requirements.
Hybrid working is available, with an expectation of 2–3 days per week in the office. Occasional travel and out-of-hours working may be required to support partner engagement and incident response.
About you
You will bring substantial experience in emergency planning and business continuity, supported by a relevant professional qualification (e.g. degree in Emergency Planning, Disaster Management, DipHEP or equivalent).
A CBCI qualification and/or NEBOSH General Certificate is desirable, or a willingness to work towards these to support the wider Safety & Resilience function.
You will demonstrate excellent organisational, planning and communication skills, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Strong knowledge of UK civil protection, emergency management and business continuity frameworks is essential.
The role requires a proactive problem-solver, capable of developing pragmatic and innovative solutions to resilience challenges in a fast-paced environment. You should also be confident using standard IT applications (MS Office, SharePoint), with the ability or willingness to learn systems such as GIS mapping and ResilienceDirect.
Given the nature of the role, you will be flexible and resilient, with the ability to respond to incidents as required. This may include occasional evening and weekend working.
Please note: previous applicants need not apply.
Benefits
- 35 days leave (including 8 Bank Holidays and 3 extra days normally applied at Christmas)
- Generous Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexi time scheme
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Structured Induction Program
- Learning and Development opportunities including Future Leaders programmes
- Payment of a professional subscription for approved professionals
- Family Friendly Policies
- Independent Support for your health & wellbeing
- Generous compassionate leave
- Extra Benefits including Retail Discounts, Cycle to Work scheme and more
Salary range
- £36,363 - £40,777 per year