
HR People Strategy 2021 - 2024
At West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, our HR Team within the Employment Services (People) Directorate ensures our people can be their best every day. We contribute to Making West Yorkshire Safer by having the right people, values, skills, and support in place. Our People Strategy focuses on fair, consistent, and ethical practices to attract, recruit, and retain the right candidates.
We support colleagues throughout their employment journey, from onboarding to promotion, leave processes, and exit. We work with leaders to manage people issues and foster positive employee relations. Our HR guidance helps solve problems and improve through data and innovative initiatives.
We provide excellent pensions and benefits services, comply with employment law, and continually develop our HR competencies to ensure our workforce flourishes.
Payroll is responsible for the preparation of all payroll documentation including new starters, terminations, promotions, changes to working hours and maternity pay.
Recruitment and Pensions are responsible for managing the recruitment process for both Firefighters and Support Staff roles. This encompasses the whole process from initial application right through to appointment and induction. Dealing with enquiries from both managers and employees in relation to the three Pension schemes we operate; the Local Government Pension Scheme; the Firefighters Pension Scheme and the New Firefighters Pension Scheme.
Access offers a suite of functionality to support every stage of an employee’s life cycle:
Recruitment and Pensions are responsible for managing the recruitment process for both Firefighters and Support Staff roles. This encompasses the whole process from initial application right through to appointment and induction. Dealing with enquiries from both managers and employees in relation to the three Pension schemes we operate; the Local Government Pension Scheme; the Firefighters Pension Scheme and the New Firefighters Pension Scheme.
Diversity and Inclusion is extremely important to us. Diversity and Inclusion within WYFRS is about delivering the best customer service for all our diverse communities (more information in ‘What we do’ section), with and through a diverse and engaged workforce. The Authority’s commitment to equality and diversity is contained in its Statement of Purpose.
We believe diversity is the responsibility of each individual within the Authority. There is a dedicated Diversity and Inclusion Officer who designs and executes diversity initiatives. The purpose of the post includes:
The majority of our key Diversity and Inclusion activity is delivered through the Equality Action Plan, and scrutinised by a Corporate Driving Diversity Board made up of staff members from different areas of the organisation.
More information on the Authority’s approach to equality and diversity, strategic equality priorities and objectives can be found here.