Should you be successfully appointed to a trainee course, you will join your fellow recruits in what can be the most challenging and rewarding time of your life.
Elements of the Course
Each day you will begin with a physical training session, this ensures that your fitness is maintained throughout the course and beyond.
The course is not solely practical and if successful you attend around 60 lectures, digesting a huge amount of information that you will be tested weekly throughout the course. Some of the areas include:
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Prevention and Education
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Rescue from Height
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Building Construction
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Urban Search and Rescue
You will undergo scenario training in the following areas:
Continuous Assessment
Your development doesn’t stop after you leave the course, you will work to achieve your competency in the role through an NVQ.
Please see the video below, this will give you an idea of the intense training programme that all our recruits undergo. This ensures that when they successfully complete the course, they have the key skills to contribute effectively to a watch and begin their development as a Firefighter.
