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
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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