Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Our employee forums and partners include: Asian Fire Services Association (AFSA), BEING (our LGBTQ+ employee support network), Christian Fellowship, Ethnic Minority Forum, Men’s Forum, and our Women’s Forum. In addition, we also have a female firefighters operational group. Further to the above, the Service has a Digital Accessibility Inclusion Group (DAIG) that supports all colleagues to improve their digital skills and provides additional support and guidance to colleagues with neurodivergent strengths and struggles as a result of dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, dyspraxia etc. We want everyone to thrive at work, and so we encourage and enable people to access digital tools to help them perform at your best. The DAIG is a group of colleagues from across the Service that unite to support others as a result of their lived experience and desire to make a difference. They support people with a range of visible and invisible disabilities to identify and access digital workplace adjustments and solutions and may be able to assist with your application too. Should you wish to discuss support, or access further information, from one of these groups, please contact Equality.Diversity@essex-fire.gov.uk You are also able to raise any queries or requests for support, including any adjustments you may require, at any stage of the process by email to recruitment@essex-fire.gov.uk You can find out more about Essex County Fire & Rescue Service here and about our vacancies and application processes here .
Within our Fire and Rescue Plan, we commit to creating a positive culture and continually improving the diversity of our workforce to reflect the community we serve. Greater representation of diversity across our Service is important as it brings wider perspective, skills, knowledge and lived experience. Greater diversity helps us to identify improved ways to engage with our communities, with awareness of their needs, to identify and reduce risks. It enriches our perspective, and broadens the skills and attributes required of a high performing organisation. Our Inclusion and Diversity team are working with our employees to collectively drive long-term change we need to see happen to create a workplace where people from all backgrounds want to work and build sustainable careers. Disability Confident We are an equal opportunities, Disability Confident, employer who welcomes applications from everyone and values diversity in our workplace. A commitment to promoting diversity and developing a work environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process and all applications will be considered solely on merit. As part of our offer to support all our candidates to perform to the best of their abilities during our recruitment and selection processes and we would like to let you know about a couple of support options you can access, should you wish to, including our employee forums, who are keen and willing to support all of our potential colleagues.
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