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The Pink - Issue 46-22 - Friday 25 November 2022 |
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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has a legal duty of care to ensure that its employees can legally drive on its behalf.
On 1 December 2022, the company that provides driving licence checks for all staff will change from DriveTech to DriverCheck Ltd who will now carry out these checks for the Service.
All employees will receive an email from DriverCheck on 1 December, inviting them to complete its E-declaration process, using the secure link provided in the email.
The email will come from enquiries@drivercheck.co.uk and will look like this:
 The e-declaration gives DriverCheck permission to perform driving licence checks. To do this, DriverCheck ask you to provide personal information, including your Driving Licence Number.
DriverCheck uses the information you provide solely to check driving licence status and does not share any data with a third party. DriverCheck is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and holds ISO27001 for secure data management.
Lynn Ince | Executive Support Officer
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The 2023 Operational Training courses will be available on LEO on Monday, 5 December for you to book a course date. Further guidance will be issued on checking your 2023 course requirements before the 'go live' date. If you do have any questions, please contact operational.training@shropshirefire.gov.uk
Training and Development Department
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Parking will not be available at Bookers over the next few weeks, if this impacts on your course you will receive notification. Please could we ask you to park at Schneider Electric, Stafford Park 5, TF3 3BL.
The following applies for parking at Schneider:
- access via the second entrance on the left,
- park on the right-hand side in the first row of spaces, opposite the assembly point.
- this is a reverse parking only site.
- this is available Monday to Friday 08:00–17:30 hours.
Parking for weekend courses should be sufficient at the Training and Development Centre.
Please note that parking at any location other than those where agreements have been made is not permitted. Please do not park outside the retail shops near Howdens and Greggs.
Training and Development Department
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Two feedback sessions are being hosted by People Insight, and it’s your opportunity to hear first-hand the results from the Staff Survey, identifying areas of strength for the Service and those that we need to focus on in 2023/24.
These sessions are being delivered via MS Teams, as follows:
- Monday 16 January 2023, 18:45 hours
- Tuesday 17 January 2023, 10:00 hours
Everyone is welcome to dial into either of the sessions – please contact Donna Trowsdale so the MS Teams link can be sent for your preferred session.
Donna Trowsdale | Development Officer
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The lecture/meeting room at Tweedale is now bookable via Outlook, in the same way as the meeting rooms in Headquarters.
The Training Centre Admin Team have entered all room bookings and courses onto this calendar to ensure availability can be viewed and is up to date. From now, if any staff need to use the lecture/meeting room at Tweedale, you can add the room to your meeting invitation, and it will be authorised in the same way as HQ rooms are booked.
If Tweedale is required to be used as a Significant Incident Room (SIR) or Multi-Agency Bronze (MAB), bookings for Tweedale will need to be moved over to the Training Centre. With this in mind, it is important to ensure that bookings are kept up to date.
Paul Gray | AGC Telford
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The date of the December 2022 pay run will be Friday 23 December.
To ensure payments are included within December pay please forward all pay claims to funding@shropshirefire.gov.uk as soon as practicable throughout November but before 7 December 2022 at the latest. Any claims received after 09:00am on Wednesday, 7 December cannot be included in December pay.
Please continue to submit any overtime and acting up claims as scanned documents via email to funding@shropshirefire.gov.uk.
On-call training course claim forms should be sent via email to:
Associate Trainer claims should be sent via email to sarah.batho@shropshirefire.gov.uk
Submission via email allows us to process claims more quickly and efficiently whilst also reducing the risk of claims being lost.
The Fire Service Rota extract will be run on Friday 9 December, therefore, for inclusion in December pay, any relevant retained activity must be entered and authorised on FSR before this date.
Any MyView mileage and expense claims should also be entered before 9 December 2022 for payment on 23 December 2022.
For general pay queries, please contact HR.
For any queries regarding claims for Overtime, RDS course claims, Associate Trainers and Acting Up Claims please contact Finance (funding@shropshirefire.gov.uk)
For queries regarding Fire Service Rota please contact FireServiceRota@shropshirefire.gov.uk or the relevant AGC.
For queries regarding My View please contact Sarah Shelvock.
Claire Ellis | Accountant
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Due to strike action taken by members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), Royal Mail will be unable to provide a business collection service on the following dates:
- Thursday 24 November
- Friday 25 November
- Wednesday 30 November
- Thursday 1 December.
Bear in mind that these strikes may affect the last Christmas posting dates, listed below.
Please check Royal Mail Latest News for more detailed information on their services.
Admin Support
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Last Christmas Posting Dates 2022
First Class Letters and Recorded signed for - Wednesday 21 December.
Second Class Letters and Recorded signed for - Monday 19 December.
Special Delivery – Guaranteed - Thursday 22 December.
Overseas Mail
Australia, New Zealand - Thursday 1 December.
China (Peoples Republic) - Friday 2 December.
Caribbean Destinations - Monday 5 December.
Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Far and Middle East - Wednesday 7 December.
Cyprus, Malta - Thursday 8 December.
Eastern Europe (except Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia), Greece and Turkey - Friday 9 December.
Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Poland, Sweden, USA - Saturday 10 December.
Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland - Monday 12 December.
Belgium, France and Luxembourg - Wednesday 14 December.
Admin Support
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 Climbing Out is a charity providing fully funded 5-day outdoor activity programmes aimed at rebuilding confidence, self esteem and motivation for people facing life-changing injury, illness or trauma. These programmes help those taking part accept what has happened to them and start to see a new way forward in life.
They work with anyone aged 18 or over who are struggling to move forward following a mental or physical trauma.
If you feel you would benefit from this programme, please visit their website for further information https://climbingout.org.uk/ Self-referral forms can be found on their website, or you can get in touch with HR who can refer you.
There are a number of programmes being held in 2023. Dates can be found here https://climbingout.org.uk/our-programmes/#ProgrammeDates
They also provide walk-and-talk days aiming to bring people together who are facing similar challenges.
For further information, please visit https://climbingout.org.uk/additional-support/walk-talk-days/
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The Pink
The Pink is also available electronically on The Portal or can be emailed to you if you contact Admin Support on EXT 1260.
All colleagues are reminded that the information in this staff newsletter is designed to improve internal communications and support effective operation of our Service. Items within it are intended solely for Elected Members and staff of Shropshire and Wrekin Fire Authority and not for onward transmission. © Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service 2014
All faults and queries with IT and communications should be directed to the ICT Service Desk.
When you require assistance or support please click on the ICT Portal Tile located on the SharePoint Portal homepage and click on the 'contact us' tab. You will then have the option to 'submit an incident' or 'request a service' using the corresponding blue or green button. Please use 'submit an incident' to log any faults or 'request a service' to ask for a service or program that you have not previously used or had access to.
When submitting an incident please make sure you select the category that comes closest to the fault you are experiencing, and that you describe the fault in details and upload any relevant screen shots.
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