Hertfordshire Fire & Rescue Service

Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Hertfordshire Fire Stations are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to support our dedicated teams. This is your chance to be at the heart of the action, ensuring our firefighters have everything they need to keep Hertfordshire safe.

• Be Part of a Heroic Team: Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to saving lives.
• Make a Real Impact: Your role is crucial in supporting the operational staff and ensuring the station runs smoothly.
• Dynamic Work Environment: No two days are the same – embrace the excitement and challenges that come with the job.

The role is primarily located in St. Albans, with occasional travel to other stations in the west of the county, as well as to Stevenage for training sessions and meetings. Working hours can be distributed throughout the week, and occasional remote work may be available subject to business needs.

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?

Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised individuals who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.

Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.

You’ll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you’ll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.

Our Business Support Service supports a range of departments. If you are particularly interested in an area, please specify in your application. If we do not have any vacancies for your preferred area at this time your application will be held in a talent pool, and you will be contacted when a vacancy arises.

All roles tend to be hybrid, which will mean that you will be expected to work within one of Hertfordshire County Council’s offices on a regular basis as well as working from home. The hiring manager will discuss the details for each particular vacancy.

Essential:

• Experience in minute or note taking
• Proven experience in an administrative or support role
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software
• Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently.
• GCSE or Vocational equivalent, strong numeracy, and literacy skills.
• Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome.

Desirable:

• You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.