PRACTICE NOT THEORY

Benefit from P2P's Wealth of Experience

  • Initial wholetime firefighter recruitment
  • Initial On-Call firefighter recruitment
  • Promotion within fire and rescue services into wholetime managerial roles – ensure a sufficient number of candidates pass the assessment process to fill available vacancies
  • Promotion within fire and rescue services into managerial roles
  • Promotion within fire and rescue services into On-Call managerial roles
  • Unsuccessful candidates from previous applications (to enter the service or internal promotion) – afforded a supportive programme in preparation for reapplying.
  • Target high potential individuals to realise early promotion.
  • External applicants seeking any future direct entry selection gateways
Every service, anyone interested in an FRS career, and those looking for promotion can benefit from our programmes

Give yourself the best chance of joining the fire service, or furthering your career, with our innovative online practice and promotion support.

We don’t spend time telling you the theory, we replicate the real-life assessments and processes you will face so you can practice to pass. We put you through your paces with practical interviews, presentations and other exercises, then provide detailed feedback from our team of experienced associates.

P2P’s mission is to deliver current, high-quality recruitment, selection and promotion support and practice at low cost. Our services help FRSs deliver their Succession Plans and People Strategies, so your staff deliver to their full potential on the day.

Every member of our diverse team has years of experience in their given areas. Our team comprises current and former managers/officers, staff and non-service associates (NSA). The role of NSAs is so important – they bring diversity and a wealth of experience, knowledge, expertise, and thinking to ensure your FRS meets the needs of all its communities.

Core Offerings

Our executive team of experienced public service leaders, headed up by a former Chief Fire Officer and former Deputy Chief Constable, work with your service to build a bespoke programme of support to help you achieve your goals.

We work with each service to replicate recruitment, selection and promotion processes, providing officers and staff of all ranks and roles with the opportunity to practice mock promotion, selection processes and assessments via an easy-to-use online portal.

We work with organisation s across the UK to support the recruitment and progression of candidates, including those from underrepresented groups, with a mix of 1-to-1 sessions and group workshops, providing real-time practice interviews and exercises with experienced practitioners.

We can also train your associates to develop their skills and gain confidence in the assessment process whilst challenging unconscious bias.

Contact us for an informal discussion about how our experienced team can help your service achieve your workforce goals.

Benefits

The benefits of P2P’s methods and approach are proven and broad – to those wishing to join the Fire and Rescue Service, to the future leaders of the FRS, to those who have recently failed a promotion process but have potential, to YOUR organisation.

  • Solid evidence for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) and other external bodies
  • Promotes and supports Succession Planning for all staff groups
  • Enhance and fast track workforce talent
  • Supports a journey of organisational continuous improvement
  • Supports Investors in People
  • Support a more positive outcome to employee surveys and feedback
  • Ensures your service becomes an employer of choice
  • Embeds and promotes equality, diversity and promote inclusion
  • Increase the number of underrepresented groups going for promotional opportunities
  • Increase the success rate of underrepresented groups at promotion boards/processes 
  • Be a proactive solution for the delivery of positive action
  • Raises awareness and embeds the FRS Leadership Framework
  • Raises the profile and embeds the code of ethics
  • Ability for services to ‘feed in’ key cultural and organisational priorities
  • An offering and solution for all staff in the service so avoiding internal favouritism, exclusion or unconscious bias
  • Helps to support mental health and wellbeing
  • Individuals feel ‘invested in’ and valued
  • Provides individuals with a safe space to test and develop
  • Increase levels of confidence amongst all staff groups
  • Ability to support external applicants at Firefighter level who have failed the selection process and are from underrepresented groups
  • A solution for individuals who are considering Direct Entry

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Additional Services

Psychometric Testing and Managing and Leading Change Profiling

To be different and stand out from the crowd, FK and P2P can provide an offering to services whereby they can access psychometric tests which are cross mapped over to the FRS Leadership Framework (FRSLF) and Code of Ethics (COE).

Such an approach will give FRS’s a distinct advantage in relation to their People Strategy narrative for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) concerning the People Pillar.

Value Centred and Ethical Leadership Development

P2P builds a values and ethical based development approach, helping deliver cultural change within the sector.

A programme is tailored to the needs and context of a specific FRS and therefore helps create change in FRS’s across the UK

The cultural change programme is cross-mapped and helps achieve the aims of:

  • The NFCC Leadership Framework and Core Code of Ethics

  • The HMICFRS inspection framework by helping develop leaders who are committed to and demonstrate their values and promote a positive, diverse, equal and inclusive culture

  • The Fire and Rescue Service Equality Framework (FRSEF) by supporting Services positive action to address under-representation in leadership roles and developing leaders who are committed to creating a diverse, equal and inclusive organisation

  • Local FRS People Strategies

Media Training
  • Communication Messaging Training
  • Media Training (In-house or studio)
  • Presentation & Public Speaking 
  • Virtual Presenting
  • Effective Media Relations
  • Crisis Communications Awareness
  • Advanced Crisis Communications 
  • Social Media

We can help aspiring talent to learn and practice the skills needed to be successful in their careers and make a bigger organisational difference.

  • Chief Officer and Senior Leadership Team Briefings
  • Partnership Exercise
  • Performance Management Exercises
  • In tray exercises
  • Understanding Prioritisation
  • Writing Briefing Documents
  • Writing Fire Authority/PFCC Papers
  • Writing Strategic Leadership Team Papers
  • Writing Business Plans
Investigations, Staff Engagement, Exit Interview and Surveys

We provide FRS with various fields of expertise and experience to address some of the capacity challenges –

  • End to End Recruitment Services
  • External and Independent  Discipline Investigations
  • Cultural Surveys
  • Staff Surveys
  • Pre-retirement Courses and Post Career Advice
  • Exit Interviews

P2P has a team of experienced mentors who work with candidates to help identify personal and professional goals

Individual mentoring is carried out by one of our qualified professionals who have considerable and recognised experience in the professional area candidates are looking to develop.

Mentoring supports:

  • Rank and Role Progression
  • Managing Challenging Situations
  • Solving Complex Issues
  • Operational Command
  • Supervisory, Middle and Strategic Management
  • Effective Stakeholder Management
  • Increasing Self-confidence
Individual Career Coaching

Individual coaching sessions are carried out by our qualified and experienced professional coaches in the strictest of confidence. Coaching can help in many areas of personal development including increasing self-confidence, help improve work performance, enhance communication skills and even help to improve working relationships.

  • Preparing for Executive and other Leadership Roles
  • Career Goal Setting / Development Planning
  • Achieving Work/Life Balance
  • Self-Management
    Leaving the FRS
    Recently Promoted
    Unsuccessful in Promotion
    Realising Talent

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