Firefighter trainee

Please note if you do not enter your unique ID number correctly, we will not receive your answers to the behavioural questions, and you will not be able to proceed. Personal Impact: Please describe a situation where you have understood how your actions and behaviour impact on others. Outstanding Leadership : Please explain with an example how you value and appreciate differences in people and treat everyone with kindness and respect. Service Delivery: Please provide an example where you have focussed on customer needs in your approach to work, including issues of safeguarding and inclusion. Organisational Effectiveness: Please outline an example of how you have previously been open to, and positively engage with, new ways of working. ALICE is a platform that utilises the power of AI to analyse the answers you provide and support our recruitment team in the selection process. After the closing date your answers given to the questions in ALICE will be scored using AI technology as well as human assessors. The AI will "read" the application answers you provide and then score it using a scoring matrix provided by the GFRS recruitment team by utilising the NFCCs leadership framework. (Full details of this framework can be found on this link: NFCC_Leadership_Framework_Final.pdf). The system will provide us with a rationale for the score it has awarded, which will be based only on the information provided in your answers. Members of the GFRS recruitment team will then make an assessment of your score and will then make the shortlisting decision.

• Must live within 50 miles of the Gloucestershire County border.
• Be at least 18 years of age by the start of your employment.
• Hold a Full UK Driving License. Or be prepared to attain one within 12 months.
• You will be required to arrange your own transport to Moreton-in-Marsh Fire Service College in Gloucestershire, as part of your apprenticeship and also our training centre at Severn Park Avonmouth, Bristol.
• Not be claustrophobic.
• Not have a phobia of heights.
• Required to swim 25 meters prior to attending your water rescue course.
• Must hold Level 2 qualification in Maths and English or the equivalent (eg GCSE grade C or 4 or above) with certificated evidence.
• Have a good level of physical fitness with a VO2 max of 42 as this will be tested during the recruitment process.
• Beards and facial hair: There are some restrictions on facial hair. Firefighters must make sure their facial hair is maintained so that it doesn't get in the way of personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Not have had laser eye surgery in the 12 months prior to starting your apprenticeship Firefighter role.
• Original documentation to meet our legal obligations under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1996, It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
  
  Trainee pay while undertaking apprenticeship at college £28,265 (first 10 weeks)
• Development pay £29,442
• Competent pay £37,675 (after 24 months employment and signed off as competent)
You will be:
• Working within the community of Gloucestershire.
• Part of an organisation who are committed to inclusion and diversity.
• Joining a team who strive for excellence in staff development.
• Working alongside a team who are committed to protecting the people of Gloucestershire.
• A positive, highly skilled individual.