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Could anyone who's transferred in to the LFB let me know if the grass really is greener. I have been toyed with the idea for a few months but would like to know anyone elses experiences.
I live in Newark, Notts and would intend to commute into London by train. With that in mind and the fact i would be coming into Kings Cross, is Euston normally fully staffed or do oppotunities exist to get posted there?
Has the LFB secured free public transport as the Met have done?
What is the current London Weighting payment?
Any rumours of duty changes?
As a Crew Manager, are the possibilities for promotion still greater than the smaller County brigades?
Any info would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks.
Cyclops246
I can't answer your question about transferring into the LFB and greener grass etc but I can tell you that London Weighting from July 2008 is £4,959.00 PA.
In London free public travel was negotiated away some years ago and there are no plans or suggestions that we will see it coming back.
Shift changes are said to be imminent (by the employers) and 4 x 12 hour shifts have been mooted. The FBU have said that any change to the 9/15 will result in industrial action.
We have just seen a 50% rise in the targets for HFSRCs that, given the current training work-load, are frankly inachievable. I suspect that when the figures for completed HFRCs and core skills training achieved for 2009/10 are collated, the employers will have wangled enough evidence to prove that a shift change is necessary. Unfortunately (in my opinion) they're playing with firefighters' safety, and ultimately, their lives in doing so. How quickly the employers' memory of the loss of two uniformed colleagues at Bethnal Green has faded.
I can't say for definite as my knowledge of outer brigades isn't great but I'd say that the politics within the organisation are probably more invasive than anywhere else.
Euston is accessible a posting as anywhere, I'd say, and is a relatively busy, central London station. Promotion within the organisation has always been more easily accessible than in outer brigades, and many individuals have transferred in for that reason. However, that promotion has been somewhat limited by the recent Targeted Development programme and the Graduate Entry scheme.
Hope this helps.
Straight8
Re: transferring to LFB
NorthernMonkey wrote:
Could anyone who's transferred in to the LFB let me know if the grass really is greener. I have been toyed with the idea for a few months but would like to know anyone elses experiences.
I live in Newark, Notts and would intend to commute into London by train. With that in mind and the fact i would be coming into Kings Cross, is Euston normally fully staffed or do oppotunities exist to get posted there?
Has the LFB secured free public transport as the Met have done?
What is the current London Weighting payment?
Any rumours of duty changes?
As a Crew Manager, are the possibilities for promotion still greater than the smaller County brigades?
Any info would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks.
Euston?
I don't think there's a waiting list to transfer there.
You go out at 09.00 and get back after 18.00 with a packed lunch.
Good luck.
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