National Firefighter Questionnaire.

The National Firefighter Questionnaire is an assessment of your motivations and attitudes around seven scales based on the Personal Qualities and Attributes of the role of Fire Fighter (PQA's). This is a National standard of assessment.

The National Firefighter questionnaire assessment itself consists of 127 questions designed to look at certain areas of the seven scales. Each question looks at a specific area of one of the scales. The areas are :-

• Working with Others - you can work effectively with others either within the FRS (Fire & Rescue Service) or within the community.
• Commitment to Diversity and Integrity - you understand and respect diversity and you can adopt a fair and ethical approach towards other people.
• Confidence and Resilience - you can maintain a confident and resilient attitude in highly challenging and difficult situations.
• Commitment to Excellence -you can adopt a conscientious and proactive approach to your work thus achieving and maintaining excellent standards.
• Commitment to Development - you are committed to self development and you are committed to developing others.
• Situational Awareness - you maintain an active awareness of the environment to promote safe and effective working.
• Openness to Change - you are open to change and you actively seek to support it within the FRS and within the community.

We have supplied a full downloadable copy of the National Firefighter Personal Qualities and Attributes for you here.

I am struggling to find PQA evidence?

You may have just left school or spent a long time in the same job and feel that you cannot demonstrate qualities in some of the PQA skill areas. Don't worry this is not uncommon. Time to think outside the box now... there is nothing stopping you from using activities other than work as evidence. What are you hobbies? Do you do voluntary work? Do you have any hidden talents or skills?

You may want to go out now and get some examples. Go and volunteer to help at a community event or help out a charity. What about joining a team? If you sit and think about the PQA's and what they ask you can find activities and voluntary work that will help you get some great examples. Best of all the wider community benefits too from your actions! If you need further help with the PQA's and ideas about getting the evidence have a look at our training products page.

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