Workforce Overview (as of March 2025)

The following pages provide a broad overview of the Service

Table 1 - Workforce Overview
	Workforce (Positions)	Turnover	Average Age	Disability	White	Racially Minoritised	LGB
All	100% (835)	9%	43	4.9%	91.7%	8.3%	4.9%
Wholetime	51% (424)	5.5%	42	4.3%	91.9	8.1	5%
On-call	29% (239)	11.1%	40	2.1%	96.7%	3.3%	2%
Support	20% (172)	13.6%	46	10.4%	87.9%	12.1%	7%

Gender breakdown

Religion

Table 3 - Workforce by religion
Religion	Percentage
No religion	48%
Christian	37%
Not specified	11%
Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, other religions	4%

Duel contractors

Table 4 provides a brief overview of the number of dual contractors in the organisation. Those staff who are in a wholetime firefighter role or non-uniformed support staff role and also occupy a position in the on-call workforce.

Table 4 - Duel contractors
81 Dual Contractors in total	On-Call Positions
22 Wholetime Watch Managers (WM) also occupy…..	9 WM 12 CM 1 FF
23 Wholetime Crew Managers (CM) also occupy…..	2 WM 18 CM 3 FF
28 Wholetime Firefighters (FF) also occupy…..	1 WM 8 CM 19 FF
8 Green Book staff (Excluding casual workers)	2 WM 1 CM 5 FF

Annual Performance and Development Review (PDR) - 2024

The Service is proud to have a 92% completion rate for PDRs (this excludes long term sick, maternity leave and new starters).

Staff Survey Response - 2024

Response 68%
Px Score 73% (overall satisfaction rate)

Staff age

Table 5 - Age group by staff cohort
Age Bands	Wholetime	Wholetime %	On-call	ON-call %	Non uniformed	Non uniformed %
<25	11	1.32%	20	2.40%	11	1.32%
26-35	93	11.15%	63	7.55%	25	3.00%
36-45	168	20.14%	83	9.95%	43	5.16%
46-55	128	15.35%	45	5.40%	43	5.16%
56-65	24	2.88%	28	3.36%	48	5.76%
+66					1	0.12%
Sum:	424		239		171