Support Staff

Every day we're helping to save lives - and not only by fighting fires. Behind the scenes there are lots of other roles that people don't see: the emergency response operators, administration teams, technicians and more. There's much more to Hampshire Fire & Rescue Service than meets the eye.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service currently employs in the region of 1800 staff. These include full-time, part-time and "job share" positions. Of this total approximately 300 individuals are classed as support staff. These people work in vital support and administration roles enabling the service to provide an efficient, cohesive rescue service as well as promoting safety throughout the community and training to commercial organisations.

These roles include:

Numerous administrative positions throughout the county
Information services staff
Support managerial positions
Community Safety teaching staff including one fully qualified teacher
Qualified IT trainers
Technical engineers
Hydrant technicians
Telecommunications engineers
Incident support teams
Station support staff
Caretakers
Property Services staff eg painters
Driver training instructors
Occupational health staff including one qualified nurse
Mechanics, auto-electricians, coach fitters and engineers

and many other specific individual positions.

For details of vacancies for any of these rewarding careers within the Fire Service keep visiting our vacancies page.