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On-Call Firefighters Information Guide On-Call Firefighters Information Guide Essex County Fire & Rescue Service On-Call Firefighters – An information guide Contents INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 4 Map of fire stations ........................................................................................................................ 4 A career with Essex County Fire & Rescue Service ........................................................................ 5 INFORMATION ABOUT ON-CALL FIREFIGHTERS .................................................................... 6 What are on-call firefighters? ......................................................................................................... 6 Who can be an on-call firefighter? .................................................................................................. 6 Why are on-call firefighters needed? .............................................................................................. 8 How often would I be needed? ...................................................................................................... 8 What do I get out of it? .................................................................................................................. 8 GENERAL INFORMATION ......................................................................................................... 10 Information for your employer ...................................................................................................... 10 Becoming an on-call firefighter when you’re self employed .......................................................... 10 EC drivers Hours and Tachograph Rules for Goods Vehicles (Regulation 561/2006) .................... 10 Information for your partner/family ............................................................................................... 10 Personal appearance ................................................................................................................... 10 Vision .......................................................................................................................................... 11 THE SELECTION PROCESS AND HOW TO APPLY ................................................................. 14 The Selection Process ................................................................................................................. 14 Thank you for your interest in becoming an on-call firefighter with Essex County Fire & Rescue Service. Stage One - Application ............................................................................................................... 14 This information pack is intended to give you an insight into the role of an on-call firefighter. It also has information about the types of activities you can expect to be involved in during your career with us and Stage Two - Interview .................................................................................................................. 14 details about the current recruitment process. More detailed information is available on our website www.essex-fire.gov.uk. Stage Three - Assessment Day ................................................................................................... 15 Essex County Fire & Rescue Service is committed to promoting equality of opportunity amongst our Stage Four - Occupational Health ................................................................................................ 16 employees and we welcome suitably skilled male and female applicants from all parts of the community. TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT ................................................................................................... 18 Initial training ................................................................................................................................ 18 Training throughout your career ................................................................................................... 18 Development and maintenance of skills ....................................................................................... 18 Promotion and longer term career prospects ............................................................................... 18 2 Visit www.essex-fire.gov.uk Call 01376 576121 3 On-Call Firefighters – An information guide Introduction A career with Essex County Essex County Fire & Rescue Service has a total of 51 fire stations across the county. Fire & Rescue Service A large majority of these, 36 fire stations, are on-call stations or have an appliance crewed When called to an emergency, firefighters by on-call firefighters. could be dealing with many different types of major or minor incidents. In addition to fires they could be called to road, rail or air incidents, floods, chemical spills and rescuing people trapped in lifts or other confined spaces. As well as fighting fires and attending SAFFRON WALDEN incidents, firefighters are also called upon to provide community education and advice on fire safety. SIBLE HEDINGHAM NEWPORT A firefighter’s role is to encourage a safe WETHERSFIELD THAXTED HALSTEAD MANNINGTREE DOVERCOURT community, to prevent fires and emergencies COLCHESTER before they happen and to make sure people STANSTED understand the risks of fire and what they can do to protect themselves. DUNMOW BRAINTREE COGGESHALL WIVENHOE WEELEY USAR FRINTON Firefighters take part in a wide variety of BRIGHTLINGSEA TIPTREE CLACTON activities, such as giving talks to schools, WEST MERSEA visiting community groups, fitting smoke LEADEN RODING WITHAM OLD HARLOW alarms in homes and advising homeowners TOLLESBURY on protecting their properties from fire risks. HARLOW CENTRAL CHELMSFORD Firefighters therefore have to be good at MALDON communicating and interacting with diverse ONGAR groups of people within the communities TILLINGHAM EPPING GREAT BADDOW we serve. WALTHAM ABBEY INGATESTONE SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH LOUGHTON BRENTWOOD BILLERICAY HAWKWELL WICKFORD ROCHFORD RAYLEIGH WEIR BASILDON SOUTHEND LEIGH SHOEBURYNESS CORRINGHAM CANVEY GRAYS ORSETT Wholetime duty system On-call duty system 4 Visit www.essex-fire.gov.uk Call 01376 576121 5 On-Call Firefighters – An information guide Information about on-call firefighters What are on-call within a specified time of receiving firefighters? a pager alert, driving at normal road speeds. As we can’t predict An on-call firefighter is a person when they will be called out, on- who is ‘on call’ to respond to call firefighters have to be flexible a range of emergencies and in their work or home-based engages with their community. activities. They have everyday lives and jobs, until the pager sounds - Some on-call firefighters work then they become professional for an understanding employer firefighters. who is prepared to release them Case Study from their workplace from time They may be ‘part-time’, but they to time when the pager alerts, are trained and experienced others work for themselves or people on the front line, saving simply have time available to help Shaun Wade lives. On-call firefighters are paid protect the community. When for their services, they receive firefighters are on-call and the Shaun joined the crew at Wickford Fire thorough training and learn all pager sounds, they need to be Station in 2008 when he was looking they need to know about able to stop whatever they are for something worthwhile to do in the emergency situations. doing and report immediately to evening. He now combines life as an on- the fire station. call firefighter with a busy family life and a On-call firefighters come from demanding job as Contracts Manager at a all walks of life. For example, On-call firefighters need to have building company. they could be men and women good communication skills who are at home, in full or part- together with personal skills He said: “I’m not the type of person to sit time employment, working for such as courage, understanding, around watching TV and I wanted something themselves, studying at college reliability, flexibility, determination, worthwhile to do with all the spare time I had. or university, or not currently self-motivation, common sense, I found that being an on-call firefighter was the employed. They are people who commitment, enthusiasm and the thing to fill that gap and it allowed me to give are able to give their time to assist ability to work within a team. They something back to the community. the fire service and help protect also need to be able to reflect our their communities. values at all times. “It is a big responsibility but the rewards are great. Everything I have learned on every Above all, being an on-call course the Service has sent me on has had a Who can be an on-call firefighter requires a real desire positive effect on my work and home life and firefighter? to serve the local community. has helped me develop as a person. Firefighters have to be at least 18 To be an on-call firefighter we “My advice to anyone thinking of joining is that years of age with a good all-round ask for a minimum agreed it’s a real commitment but if you stick it out it level of fitness and there is no commitment, which could be is the most rewarding job in the world. If you upper age limit. On-call firefighters during the night, at weekends, think you can do it then I would say go for it.” need to work or live within an during the day or a combination agreed distance of a station as of all. they have to be
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