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Kent Fire And Rescue Service Careers

Welcome to the Yourcounty Kent Fire And Rescue Service job and carrer page. We have been publishing emergency service recruitment help and advice for nearly ten years. In that time the suggestions and prompts from our users and researchers have been central to the continual improvement of our content. If you have some feedback about working for the emergency services in general or Kent Fire and rescue service in particular we'd like to hear from you. The aim of this page, is to provide some general recruitment information supported with local knowledge and add some value through user feedback and shared experience. Follow this link for more employers and jobs in Kent.

On Call Firefighter Vacancies

At the time of writing the The Fire And Rescue Service is expecting to publish vacancies for on-call firefighters at a number of stations across the county. We'll publish more details when we have them: in the meantime follow the current vacancy link below.

The Kent Fire & Rescue Service

The history of the fire brigade in Kent goes back over 200 years. In 1802 Hythe set up a town based fire service. In the same year the Kent Fire Office was created and the Deptford (insurance) brigade was formed. A second municipal service was created in Kent at Ashford twenty five years later. The twentieth century saw the innovation of motorised fire appliances with Bromley being the first town to introduce them. The threat of WWII led to the formal creation and regulation of local fire brigades and the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) in 1938. Just three years later all the local brigades and the AFS were integrated into a National Fire Service. In the post war era fire services returned to the control of the respective local authorities.

Today the Kent and Medway Fire and Rescue Service has over 50 fire stations, 75 fire appliances and a host of other vehicles manned by something like 1,700 members of staff. The area of responsibility of the service contains more than 1,725,000 people making it one of the biggest and busiest services in the UK.

Working For The Fire And Rescue Service

The current roles available in Fire Service are outlined below, follow this link for the current vacancies and details of how to make an application.

• Firefighters are on the front line quite literally fighting fires and dealing with a wide range of other emergencies including; road traffic collisions, buildings in a state of collapse, floods and other rescue situations. Kent no longer has a retained system, this system has been replaced by on-call firefighters.
• Control Team Staff are essentially the people you speak to if you ever dial 999 and ask for 'Fire'. The control room is a 24/7 operation and over the course of a year staff working in shifts handle handle in excess of 45,000 calls.
• The Technical Fire Safety group are involved in delivering; technical, legislative and policy support as well as enforcement services.
• Community Safety staff have responsibility to help the prevention of fires and other accidents
• The Kent Fire And Rescue Service has the support of a wide range of central functions that carry out all the tasks that you might expect from a large public sector organisation; IT, HR, engineers and much more.

These are many more individual jobs in the Service, visit the website for specific details.

Contact And Location

• Kent Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters, The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, ME15 6XB
• 0800 028 0852
• www.kent.fire-uk.org

Feedback & Disclaimer

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