Our objective:
To have a safe and diverse workforce who we enable to perform well in a supportive culture underpinned by excellent training
Develop and deliver a People Strategy to:
- Continuously improve the diversity of the workforce to ensure it represents the community at large
- Ensure strong, effective leadership is in place
- Set out the routes available in terms of recruitment, retention and progress
- Promote flexible working, including mixed crewing
- Develop a new training programme and extend training opportunities so that all our staff have the skills and training they need and remain safe in their work
- Ensure a safe workforce, support health, safety and well-being
- Tackle bullying and discrimination
- Ensure up-to-date information is available in the right place, at the right time and in the right format
- Ensure a fair and accessible whistle blowing and grievance policy
- Ensure a succession policy is in place
Develop and deliver a cultural change programme that embeds our values and behaviours through:
- Recognition
- Communication
- Continuous improvement
- Developing manager self-awareness
- Recognising the benefits of reflecting the diversity of the communities we serve
As a service we will:
- Ensure the Service is efficiently staffed
- Recognise the value of on-call fire-fighters and improve recruitment and retention
- Explore opportunities, such as a direct entry scheme or internal development, to address recruitment challenges in specific areas of the Service, while ensuring our staff have the right operational skills and competencies
- Encourage support staff to develop and progress
- Involve, consult and inform our staff so they understand how they can contribute to our Service