HM Coastguard has launched a recruitment drive for volunteers across Northumberland.
The team consists entirely of volunteers from all walks of life who are trained in everything from water and mud rescue to advanced first aid and missing person searches.
There are rescue teams based at Berwick, Holy Island, Seahouses, Howick, Amble, Newbiggin and Blyth with both male and female volunteers on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Rescue officers can be called out at any time of day in all weather conditions and work in hazardous situations and carry out physically demanding tasks.
Full training and equipment is provided and no previous emergency service or maritime experience is required.
Volunteers must be 18 or older, have a full UK driving licence and live within 25 minutes of their local station.
Volunteers must be physically fit and will be required to take a health and fitness test and meet eyesight and hearing requirements prior to becoming operationally deployable.
A HM Coastguard spokesman said: "Being part of a Coastguard Rescue Team is a big commitment and requires regular attendance at training sessions and at emergency incidents.
"We are particularly interested in people with good daytime availability during the course of the standard Monday to Friday working week."
Those wishing to apply must attend training courses at Amble on:
11 – 15 May 2020
30 – 31 May 2020
13 – 14 June 2020
If you think you have what it takes, send a note of interest via e-mail including your name, age, current address, contact number, current employment status and a bit of information about yourself to area5@mcga.gov.uk.
