In this paper, motivated by the works of Kohsaka and Takahashi (SIAM J Optim 19:824–835, 2008) and Aoyama et al. (J Nonlinear Convex Anal 10:131–147, 2009) on the class of mappings of firmly nonexpansive type, we explore some properties of firmly nonexpansive-like mappings [or mappings of type (P)] in p-uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces. We then study the split common fixed point problems for mappings of type (P) and Bregman weak relatively nonexpansive mappings in p-uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach spaces. We propose an inertial-type shrinking projection algorithm for solving the two-set split common fixed point problems and prove a strong convergence theorem. Also, we apply our result to the split monotone inclusion problems and illustrate the behaviour of our algorithm with several numerical examples s. The implementation of the algorithm does not require a prior knowledge of the operator norm. Our results complement many recent results in the literature in this direction. To the best of our knowledge, it seems to be the first to use the inertial technique to solve the split common fixed point problems outside Hilbert spaces.