Positive Action
What is Positive Action?
The Humberside Fire & Rescue Service is an employer committed to achieving a working environment that actively encourages, promotes and values equality and diversity. To support this aim, we welcome applications from all of the community who share our commitment.
Our aim is to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community we serve, and in turn improves the service we deliver to the community.
The Humberside Fire & Rescue Service has a uniformed workforce that is currently under-represented by women and people from Black and minority ethnic groups.
If an organisation can show that within the previous 12 months, persons of a particular sex or racial group were considerably under-represented in the workforce then they are legally permitted to use positive action initiatives. (Sex Discrimination Act 1975 & Race Relations Act 1976).
Positive action initiatives can be in the form of access to training for a particular job or encouragement to apply for a particular job.
Positive action can only be undertaken up to the point where someone makes an application and the opportunity to apply must always be open to all.
All applicants must go through the same recruitment and selection process and must achieve the same level in any tests/assessments. Any offer of employment must be made on merit. It would be positive discrimination and therefore illegal for any selection decisions or offers of employment to be made on the basis of someone's race or gender.
What Positive Action initiatives do we have at Humberside Fire & Rescue Service?
At Humberside Fire & Rescue Service we have an Equality and Diversity Officer who actively goes out into the community to talk to women and people from Black & minority ethnic groups to give information about a career as a Firefighter.
We also run awareness courses at weekends and evenings specifically for women and people from Black & minority ethnic groups at various locations as and when required. This gives people the opportunity to find out more about a career as a Firefighter, to see what is expected as part of the recruitment and selection process and to ask any questions they may have to serving women and Black and minority ethnic firefighters. If you would be interested in attending an awareness evening for women or people from Black and minority ethnic groups, please contact us on free phone: 0800 3161020.
Application forms can be obtained at any of our positive action events as part of the continual recruitment policy.