Why join us

Why join us

  • OUR TALENT

    Firefighter
    Firefighter

    “My London Fire Brigade badge holds me to a higher standard.”

  • OUR TALENT

    Firefighter
    Firefighter

    “I helped an 84-year-old gentleman in a flood. Stayed talking with him after finding out he’d recently lost his wife. He needed the company.”

  • OUR TALENT

    Firefighter
    Firefighter

    “To serve the public to the best of our ability, we must first check and help ourselves and our team.”

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Our Employee Assistance Programme helps with the emotional and practical issues. It is confidential and available 24/7, year-round.


Our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is designed to support you with both the emotional and practical challenges that life can bring. The service is completely confidential, and your employer will not be informed if you choose to use it.


You and your immediate family members* can access the service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for:


• Emotional wellbeing and mental health support
• Counselling and guidance for personal or work-related concerns
• Financial and legal information and advice
• Family and relationship support
• Health and wellbeing resources
• Practical assistance with everyday life challenges


*Eligibility for family members may vary depending on your organisation’s EAP provision.

Wellness
Wellness

We have a professionally accredited counselling service to help with your psychological wellbeing. This service is open to all members of the Brigade, no matter their role. It can be accessed for free. You will have to reach out to the service – unless you are a firefighter that has experienced a fatality, in which case, they will automatically contact you.

Support includes:

  • Counsellors to speak with in the moment.
  • Financial: qualified advisers on budgeting, debt, and long-term planning.
  • Family care: relationship challenges, bereavement.
  • Six, solution-focused counselling sessions per year.
  • Digital tools for everyday wellbeing.

The Fire Fighter’s charity is there for all members of the UK’s fire service community — and are still on-hand after retirement. They all offer support to family members of those in the fire service. The charity provides: bereavement support, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, nursing and psychological support services. Plus, they have a crisis line and offer residential programmes for those in need of respite.

Staff Networks

We encourage our staff to support each other, through peer-to-peer networks. The following are part of LFB: Asian Fire Service Association, Disability Working Group, LGBT+ Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression group, Parents and Carers Network, United MINDs, and Women in the Fire Service.

Our staff networks provide a space to learn and bring about a greater sense of belonging.