Royal Air Force

As an RAF Medic, you will provide essential medical support to personnel, responding to medical emergencies and providing airfield crash cover on stations in the UK, whilst on operations and also on exercises. RAF Medics can also train as paramedics, providing a full range of pre-hospital emergency care in military environments.

What will you do?

The RAF Medic is able to handle ambiguity, evaluate complex information and make evidence-based clinical decisions to promote and maintain patient welfare and safety. Typical responsibilities include:

• Duty RAF Medics provide airfield medical crash cover and pre-hospital emergency care.

• Manage receipt and storage of medical supplies and pharmaceuticals in medical stores, issuing of medications.

• Maintain the electronic and paper medical records, monitoring the occupational health of Defence personnel.

Requirements at a glance

Aircraft Technicians Survival Equipment maintain systems designed to save and preserve life; in flight, during emergencies, and in survival situations. This role is key in supporting aircrew and the operation of aircraft.

What will you do?

As an Aircraft Technician Survival Equipment, your role will involve maintaining and servicing essential equipment to ensure the safety and functionality of aircrew and passengers during flights. This includes tasks such as inspecting and repairing items like helmets, oxygen systems, life preservers, and night vision devices.

• You will also be responsible for the upkeep of survival equipment crucial for sustaining life in emergencies, such as personal locator beacons, emergency life rafts, survival packs, parachute assemblies, and restraint harnesses.

• You will support military parachute operations and airborne forces training globally by maintaining parachute systems for personnel and equipment.

• You will provide survival equipment for training, assist in trials, and offer engineering support to survival instructors on the proper handling, operation, and transportation of equipment.

• Your responsibilities may also include evaluating, testing, and integrating new clothing and equipment, assessing modifications, and reviewing equipment upgrades before their implementation.

Requirements at a glance

As a member of the RAF Police, you will conduct criminal and security investigations. As specialists in Aviation Security, Counter Intelligence, Protective Security, Law Enforcement, Military Working Dogs, Information and Cyber Security, the RAF Police plays a critical role enabling airpower operations globally.

What will you do?

You’ll play a critical role in enabling airpower operations both in the UK, and on operations globally, by providing a broad spectrum of Security and Law enforcement capabilities. You will run criminal and security investigations alongside counter intelligence and protective security activities. In your role you will carry out:

• Security activities, including cyber and Information security, counter-intelligence, security risk management and airport security

• Operational threat assessments and advice

• Personnel security such as security education, vetting and screening

• Investigations including digital forensics, crime scene examination, criminal intelligence, child support and domestic violence support and surveillance

• RAF police dog handling duties including protection dogs and detection dogs

Requirements at a glance

As a Communications Infrastructure Technician you will provide communication for the RAF’s digital infrastructure ecosystem by installing and maintaining essential fibre optic and data communication cables, radome structures and antenna masts working at height or in secure operation rooms.

What will you do?

• Ensure that the RAF remains at the forefront of a progressive cyber engineering industry

• Repair, maintain and recover communication equipment

• Investigate and fix faults with antenna systems, fibre optic and data communication cables

• Assemble and install communication infrastructure such as antenna masts, fibre optic cables and radome installation structures

Requirements at a glance

As an RAF Firefighter you will provide 24/7 fire and crash rescue protection. You will be organised and trained to respond to any emergency with highly specialised equipment like powerful cutting tools.

What will you do?

RAF Firefighters provide a deployable Aerodrome & Rescue Firefighting capability to Defence in the UK and overseas. You could:

• Play a role in Air Operations when deployed in the UK or Overseas

• Work as part of a close-knit team, deployable on short-notice to any location world-wide

• Resolve incidents involving aircraft, buildings, hazardous substances and incidents caused by hostile activities

Requirements at a glance

As a RAF Mover, you will be responsible for planning and executing the movement of RAF personnel and equipment by road, rail, air and sea.

What will you do?

You will handle the movement of personnel and equipment by air, land and sea. In your role you could:

• Check in passengers and cargo, flying out on operations

• Operate a forklift and other vehicles to load freight for transport

• Plan loads using logistical IT systems

• Drive and operate specialist aircraft handling equipment

Requirements at a glance

• No formal qualifications required

• Be aged 17 – 47 years old (Must attest before 48th birthday) 

• You will need to meet specific Nationality and Residency criteria. Please see full details in the Entry Requirements section below

• Commit to a minimum 3 years after specialist training

• Pass the Defence Aptitude Assessment 

• Pass a fitness test