Dear member/Friend,
The MetBPA are constantly striving to ensure all members (internal and external) are kept up-to-date with current news, opportunities and information. We are hoping that weekly updates will provide all of this but will still circulate daily emails which may require your immediate attention.
With that in mind, please see the below links and attachments re information, updates, survey requests and more!
Please see the attached an exciting secondment opportunity to HMICFRS which closes on the 25th May.
- Job: Inspection Officer (Child Protection) x 2
Grade: T/DI to DCI on 2-year secondment.
Employer: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Fire Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
Attached is a pdf with the job profile, and the link to the vacancy below.
HMICFRS Inspection Officer (Child Protection) Secondment – Civil Service Jobs – GOV.UK
Please contact Adé Solarin, Inspection Lead – Child Protection Protecting Vulnerable People Team Adeolu.Solarin@hmicfrs.gov.uk if you have any questions.
Kent Police Opportunities for Sergeant/Detective Sergeant Promotion & Transfer Opportunities
Starting Salary: National Sergeants Pay scale plus £2,500 South East allowance (or other housing rent allowance).
We are looking for suitably qualified Constables/Detective Constables who are eligible for promotion to join its leadership teams.
We are also looking for Sergeants or Detective Sergeants on level transfer.
Are you a dynamic, innovative and operationally credible leader? If you answered yes, then Kent Police wants to hear from you.
You will need to be truly committed and passionate about leading people.
You will play a key role in developing partnerships that will provide an exceptional policing service to the people of Kent and be committed to enhancing service delivery. Sound interesting?
Application packs will be available from Wednesday 28th April 2021 and the deadline for the receipt of completed applications is 10th May 2021.
Come to our virtual briefing event on 5th May 2021 at 16:00 via Microsoft Teams.
Our Chief Officers will outline their expectations and the assessment process. Please confirm your attendance at this briefing event when requesting an application pack. For more information please visit our website at www.kent.police.uk/transferees. Kent Police Positive Action Team What is Positive Action?
•The College of Policing outlines Positive Action as creating a level playing field to enable people to compete on equal terms.
• It describes it as a range of measures aiming to eliminate unlawful discrimination and promote equality of opportunity.
• Creating a fair and equitable career pathway for members of under-represented groups.
Kent Police is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce across all officer ranks and staff grades. If you would like to speak to a member of our friendly Positive Action Team, then please email positive.action@kent.police.uk
- FB’s United MINDs network would like to invite you to a series of lunchtime events for Mental Health Awareness Week 10th – 14th May.Please feel free to send to your network members and colleagues. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Connecting with Nature
Each year the Mental Health Foundation organise and host Mental Health Awareness Week in May, providing an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health. The Mental Health Foundation started the event 21 years ago. This year between the 10th – 16th May, they have chosen ‘Nature’ as their theme. The event has grown to become one of the biggest awareness weeks across the UK and globally.
Mental Health Awareness Week is open to everyone. It is all about starting conversations about mental health and the things in our daily lives that can affect it. This year we want as many people as possible – individuals, communities and governments – to think about connecting with nature and how nature can improve our mental health. However, the Week is also a chance to talk about any aspect of mental health that people want to – regardless of the theme.
This Year’s Theme of Nature
This year the Mental Health Foundation want people to notice nature and try to make a habit of connecting to nature every day. Stop to listen to the birdsong, smell the freshly cut grass, take care of a house plant, notice any trees, flowers or animals nearby. Take a moment to appreciate these connections.
The theme was chosen because being in nature is known to be an effective way of tackling mental health problems and of protecting our wellbeing.This evidently is particularly important this year – in the year of a pandemic. The Foundation’s research has shown that being in nature has been one of the most popular ways the public have tried to sustain good mental health at a challenging time.
Nature is something that is all around us. It can be really helpful in supporting good mental health.
How can you get involved?
Virtual Lunch and Learn Sessions/ Registration
Over the course of the week United MINDs, LFB’s mental health support group will host one hour lunch and learn sessions between 13:00pm-14:00pm via MS Teams. If you would like to attend please register with Eventbrite at ‘Connecting with Nature during Mental Health Awareness Week with United MINDs’.
For further information please contact Shilla Patel (Inclusion Manager).
For further information about United MINDs please email Rebecca Dingvean (chair).
Many thanks
Shilla
Inclusion Manager
Inclusion – Cultural Change Team
People Services Department
London Fire Brigade
169 Union Street London SE1 0LL
Tele: 020 8555 1200 ext 30654
Mobile: 07388 370546
Email: shilla.patel2@london-fire.gov.uk
