Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS) is excited to announce that we are recruiting Wholetime Fire Fighters.

CFRS is committed to promoting the right values and culture, having the right people with the right skills, behaviours and values, ensuring fairness and promoting diversity across our service.

Being a firefighter at CFRS offers an exciting and rewarding career. As well as responding to a wide range of incidents, you will also take part in community safety and fire protection activities, to help keep our local residents and businesses safe in the diverse and rural communities we serve.

CFRS are seeking applications from the following to join as Wholetime Firefighters to support our vision for the future and helping to make Cornwall a safer place to live and work:

• On-Call Firefighters from within CFRS who are or will be competent in post as of the 1st of April 2023
• Wholetime competent Firefighters from other Fire and Rescue Services (Local Authority).
• On-Call Firefighters who are competent from other Fire and Rescue Services.

We are holding live recruitment webinars to enable you to ask any questions you may have around the process, and includes information about our positive action strategy. These webinars are taking place on:

15th December 19:00-20:00

21st December 18:00-19:00

27th December 18:00-19:00

Please use this link to join the sessions -

Join on your computer, mobile app or room device

Click here to join the meeting

Meeting ID: 332 378 133 254
Passcode: stDafY

Download Teams | Join on the web

Or call in (audio only)

+44 20 7660 8305,,390031258# United Kingdom, London

Phone Conference ID: 390 031 258#

CFRS has a strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and are proud to pursue positive action with the aim to achieve a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.

A workforce that inspires confidence and makes it easier to access and engage with those at risk to deliver our health, safety and wellbeing messages in a way that is understood by one and all. Diversity within our teams is important, it creates new ways of thinking through having different perceptions and points of view, it keeps an organisation thriving with ideas and innovation and ensures that every member of the organisation is engaged and knows they are valued.

In line with this our commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging applications from everyone who feel their personal values and ethics align to the service, we will be targeting and encouraging applications from underrepresented groups, such as:

• Women
• People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (the wider spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities)
• Those who identify as being from an ethnic minority background or group

We look forward to receiving your application to join Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service as a wholetime firefighter. For further information on the process and how to apply please follow the below link:

Wholetime Transfer 2022

For general queries please contact Fire Careers on firecareers@cornwall.gov.uk

Role Profile

Please view the role profile - your application will need to demonstrate how you meet the required criteria. Please ensure you answer all of the pre-screening questions in full, within the application form. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process

Equality & Diversity

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g. race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Safeguarding

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.

DBS

This position will be subject to a criminal record disclosure check.

Working for Cornwall Council

More information about working for Cornwall Council is available here.