Safer, Stronger Communities - Safe, Effective Firefighters
Our Aims
It is important for us to have:
- Excellent Operational Preparedness
Providing our Firefighters with training, information, procedures and equipment to ensure they can safely resolve emergency incidents. - Excellent Operational Response
To maintain an excellent emergency response to meet risk across Merseyside with safety and effectiveness at its core. - Excellent Prevention and Protection
Working with partners and our community to protect the most vulnerable. - Excellent People
We will develop and value all our employees, respecting diversity, promoting opportunity and equality for all.
Our Core Values
These shape what we do:
- Make a positive difference to our community
- Provide excellent and affordable response
- Respect our environment
- Everyone matters
- Our people are the best they can be
Our Personal Values
These shape how we do it:
- Responsibility
Being self‐disciplined, taking ownership of issues and problems, making things happen, trying to make a difference. Lead by example.
- Social Empathy
Being interested in people, displaying empathy, embracing diversity, community focussed. Community is at the heart of everything we do. - Constructive Challenge
Being willing to challenge but not obstructively, commitment to improvement. Creative. - Mutuality
Identifying with team, organisation and community, displaying team commitment, willing to stand up against peer pressure when appropriate, acknowledging others’ rights to differing opinions. - Pragmatism
Aspiring to excellence whilst being realistic in expectations, being practical and solution focused. - Openness to Experience
Receptive to learning opportunities and personal development, seeking out new experiences, interested in people and situations that are less familiar, taking a broad view of things.