Pay and Benefits
This section is where employees can access policies and procedures in regards to the pay and benefits.
If you have any queries, we encourage you to initially get in touch with your line manager to discuss.
Pay and Benefits Booklet
This document is intended to provide you with further information regarding your employment with the Fire Service. It outlines the pay and grading structure together with a range of benefits of working for the Service.
Fire and Rescue Service Pay
Please find links to NJC for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services joint circulars containing revised pay and CPD rates, reflecting an increase of 1.5%. With effect from 1 July 21.
Job Families Pay and Grading Structure - Corporate Staff
For our corporate roles, we use a 'job families' approach. This involves allocating similar jobs into logical categories, or 'families'.
For example, under the job families approach all admin posts would be grouped together; similarly all posts where the main focus of the role is customer service, and so on. This grouping of posts into families allows for a fair and consistent approach to job profiles right across the county council.
The council's job families framework has the following 6 families:
- Business Support - delivery of administration and business services to support the council.
- Organisational Support - delivery of professional services to support the council and partners in longer term, corporate compliance, planning, performance, policy and strategy.
- Customer Engagement - provision of assistance, instruction and information to groups and individuals using council facilities.
- Operations - delivery of ongoing service activities requiring specialist and vocational expertise.
- Regulation and Technical - provision of services of a technical or specialist operational nature to internal and external customers and / or monitoring and enforcement of prescribed regulatory areas.
- People Care and Development - support and development of individual or groups of people to build their personal capability in skills, knowledge and / or to assure their protection, security and development.
A job family is a group of jobs with common features. Each job family contains a number of levels, each reflecting different job outputs such as skills, knowledge, and experience.
Regrades
A review of your grade can be requested when:
- There has been a substantial permanent change to the duties and responsibilities of the post since it was last graded.
OR
- There is another post (‘Comparator’) in the council which is believed to carry out the same type of duties but is being paid at different grade.
Flexi Scheme
The flexi-time scheme encourages a greater work life balance, helping employees to achieve and maintain an effective balance between work and home life.
Flexibility is allowed within specified guidelines throughout the working day to allow you to determine your arrival and departure time and to accommodate the other commitments where required.
Travel and Subsistence
The travel and subsistence scheme sets out what reimbursements are available for expenses incurred in the pursuit of service business.
Travel Policy
Car Loan Scheme / Local Car User Scheme
Car Loan Scheme
If you are classed as a local car user then you will be eligible for financial assistance in accordance with the National Joint Council Scheme.
Local Car User Scheme
The local car user scheme provides an allowance to a post holder who is authorised to use their car for the efficient performance of their duties.
Local Car User Scheme Guidance
HR, Payroll and Admin
The HR and Admin Service is a hosted function, so we have linked below to their current pages
HR, Payroll and Recruitment Administration : Cumbria County Council (intouch.ccc)
The HR team are working on reviewing the information on this page and will update as we disaggregate.
To contact the HR, Payroll, and Admin team, please call:
Cycle To Work Scheme
CFRS has recently undertaken a contract to provide its employees the opportunity to join the Cycle to Work Scheme.
Our Unique URL for submitting application can be found using the link.
More information to follow.