Join the Team
OPERATIONAL ROLES
Becoming a Search Technician is an excellent opportunity for people to use outdoor skills, with many callouts involving advanced navigation, tracking and water rescue. As part of the probationary membership process, you will receive training in navigation, first aid and water safety. Following qualification as a search technician there are then further opportunities to progress within the team; we have a water rescue team and a rope rescue team as well as more advanced roles in team leading, search managing and search planning. This is not a glamorous role and much of the work is in the cold nights. The work is always sensitive and can also be traumatic on occasions. You need to be a genuine team player with a good sense of collective responsibility who can work in the strictest confidence and with the greatest integrity.
Training commitments include two nights per month, the first Tuesday and last Thursday of each month and some weekends. Callouts can be anytime but people only attend when it is possible to do so around their jobs and personal lives. This is a wonderful team to join who genuinely care about their team members and the public.
SUPPORT ROLES
As an alternative to becoming an operational member of the team, there are many other ways that you can support us. We need help in all areas of running the team from fundraising through to administration.
Our support team members are highly valued and help us with fundraising, events and with specialist tasks such as accounting, vehicle/general maintenance and IT support. In addition to this support members may also attend classroom training sessions and learn new skills such as navigation and first aid; they sometimes are able to help us by hiding for us during training events.
Support members may join any time of year and will be invited to come and meet us at a classroom based training session so that we can explain more about what is involved.