Community Volunteer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 3 January 2026
LOCATION
Various Locations
TYPE
Volunteer
LEVEL
Entry-level
CATEGORY
Emergency Services
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Communication skills Interpersonal skills Teamwork Computer literacy Organisational skills Written work

FULL DESCRIPTION

Job Details

About Us Every day we're helping to save lives and keep the community safe - and not only by fighting fires. Behind the scenes at [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk], there are lots of other roles that people don't see, helping to provide vital functions to keep us an efficient and effective Fire and Rescue Service.

The Role [Employer hidden] has its own Prevention Team which supports its work in ensuring that Herefordshire and Worcestershire are safe places in which to live, work and travel.

The role of the Community Volunteer is to enhance and complement the work of our operational staff and Community Risk Team in meeting the needs of our local communities, helping to reduce the risk to those deemed most at risk from accidental dwelling fires and other hazards.

The Person

  • Needs to be 18 years old or over
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • The ability to work on your own initiative as well as part of a team

Experience and Knowledge:

  • Excellent time keeping and organisational skills
  • The ability to complete a small amount of written work including the completion of forms
  • A basic level of computer literacy
  • It is desirable, however not essential, that Volunteers have a full clean UK driving license and the use of a vehicle on a regular basis

Reasons to Join Us

  • Help keep your community safe by delivering key safety messages
  • Meet new people and make new friends
  • Gain confidence and widen your skills
  • Enhance your CV
  • Become part of a proactive team reducing the risk of those most at risk

Successful applicants will be subject to a standard DBS Check. For any further queries regarding the volunteering role, please email [contact hidden]

Attached documents

Community Volunteer Role Profile

Community Volunteer Information Pack

Company

[Employer hidden] is responsible for providing day-to-day fire and rescue services across the two counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our stations are staffed by a mix of 'wholetime' firefighters - operating on a full-time basis and providing an immediate response - and ‘on-call’ firefighters who work and live in their local communities and respond to emergency calls whenever they are needed.

There are many interesting career opportunities with us, in Fire Control or one of our specialist support staff roles as well as being a firefighter.

Support staff work in areas including Finance, Community Safety, Training, Human Resources, Information Technology and Workshops.

Equality and inclusion

We aim to provide equality of opportunity in employment and service delivery and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and sections of society.

Company info

Website : http://www.hwfire.org.uk/

Telephone : [contact hidden]

Location : Hereford and Worcester Fire & Rescue Service Hindlip Park Worcester Worcestershire WR3 8SP GB

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