Blake's personnel spend a lot of time educating schools and businesses about fire safety. But what about when the worst happens and you have to send for the Fire Brigade?
Essex County Fire & Rescue has a total of 51 fire stations. 36 of these are run entirely by on-call firefighters or have an appliance crewed by on-call firefighters!
On-call firefighters are:
They go about their daily lives as normal BUT morph into paid firefighters when their pager sounds.
If their day job is within five minutes of the fire station, then they can be on-call during working hours.
Essex County Fire & Rescue are recruiting on-call firefighters at the following stations:
Billericay
Braintree
Brentwood
Brightlingsea
Burnham
Canvey
Coggeshall
Corringham
Dovercourt
Dunmow
Epping
Frinton
Great Baddow
Halstead
Hawkwell
Ingatestone
Leaden Roding
Maldon
Manningtree
Newport
Ongar
Old Harlow
Rochford
Shoeburyness
Sible Hedingham
South Woodham Ferrers
Stansted
Thaxted
Tillingham
Tollesbury
Waltham Abbey
West Mersea
Wethersfield
Wickford
Witham
Wivenhoe
If you or any of your staff would like to apply to be an on-call firefighter, click here https://join.essex-fire.
Many on-call firefighters are in full time employment - either with a local business or working for themselves.
Essex County Fire & Rescue are also looking for local businesses who are willing to employ on-call firefighters.
If you're looking to support your local community, employing an on-call firefighter gives you access to highly trained professionals who have many transferable skills. They can bring real value to your local business.
The thing that business owners worry about is the cost of having an employee who will need to leave immediately if they are called to an incident. What happens about the time lost?
Arrangements for being on-call for the Fire Brigade whilst at work are unique to each business. This could be to stop payment when the firefighter is called to an incident. Or to allow the employee to make up the time lost when they return from the incident or at a later date. Or something completely different, it's up to you what works best!
And don't worry if your employee has to be in Do Not Disturb mode for a while. There is the option to book as unavailable for a call out if they are working on something that can't be interrupted.
If you’re interested in finding out more about releasing an employee to become an on-call firefighter, call 01376 576698 or email oncall.recruitment@essex-fire.
From our HQ in Southend-on-Sea, Blake's help businesses all over Essex with fire safety and compliance. Employing a trained, on-call firefighter is a welcome addition to your safety plans.
And here's another one! We know that finance is a large part of running a business, so we've written a FREE e-book to help you balance your budget and fire safety. Our expert advice will keep your business safe and your accountant happy!
