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These web pages provide a guide to recruitment and roles within RBFRS, including information on wholetime (fulltime) and retained (reserve) firefighting, control operators, and support staff. Use the various links to navigate to the relevant sections for further information.

Recruitment: Support Staff
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1. Providing A Wide Range of Essential Support Roles

The primary role of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service is to provide a professional fire and rescue service to the county of Berkshire. To achieve this requires personnel, as well as operational firefighters, who provide a wide range of support functions and roles. These roles are based at various locations throughout the county, and they all share a friendly and satisfying work environment and an opportunity to contribute to the valuable work the fire and rescue service provides for the community.

The wide variety of job functions for support staff include those listed below, with many of these offering specialist and professional roles:

• Administration
• Communications
• Community fire safety
• Contracts and facilities management
• Document management
• Fleet management
• Finance
• Information technology
• Maintenance
• Multimedia Design / Development
• Operational support
• Performance review
• Personnel
• Procurement
• Training

Please visit our vacancies page to find out the latest opportunities.

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