NHS Band 8a Salary:£57,528 – £64,750 per annum
Hours: FullTime37.5 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Across sites, both Isle of Wight NHSTrust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (frequency of visits toeach site, to be agreed locally)
Are you an experienced fire safety professional ready tolead and influence fire safety across complex healthcare environments?
We are seeking an experienced Fire Safety Manager tojoin our Estates & Facilities team within the Single Corporate Servicespartnership between Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals UniversityNHS Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to take on a seniorspecialist role responsible for leading fire safety management, compliance andassurance across a diverse healthcare estate, helping to ensure safeenvironments for our patients, staff and visitors.
Main duties of the job
The Fire Safety Manager is the Trusts designatedprofessional lead and competent advisor for fire safety matters.
You will provide specialist advice and assurance to seniormanagement and governance committees, ensuring compliance with fire safetylegislation, NHS guidance and Trust policies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing expert advice on fire safety legislation,prevention and compliance.
- Leading the development and implementation of the Trust FireSafety Management System.
- Managing and overseeing the fire risk assessment programme.
- Ensuring compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety)Order 2005, NHS Fire code and Building Regulations.
- Developing and delivering fire safety training andevacuation procedures.
- Coordinating fire drills and emergency preparednessexercises.
- Investigating fire incidents and unwanted fire signals,identifying trends and preventative actions.
- Providing specialist fire safety advice on capital andestates projects.
- Leading the Fire Safety Team and supporting workforcedevelopment.
- Preparing audit reports, KPIs and assurance reports forsenior leadership and Trust Boards.
- Liaising with Fire and Rescue Services, regulators andexternal partners.
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust andPortsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellencein care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aimsunderpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across bothorganisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may berequired to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staffacross multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in personleadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront ofeverything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantasticbenefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for thoselong summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimmingpool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality andDisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe wecan offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring interms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, genderidentity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans’status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job responsibilities
This post forms part of the Single Corporate Services model, which provides shared corporate services across Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The role is primarily site-based, however collaboration across both organisations is essential and travel between sites may occasionally be required.
Our Estates and Facilities teams play a critical role in supporting the delivery of safe, high-quality patient care. This role offers the opportunity to influence fire safety strategy across a large and complex healthcare estate.
Specific Core Functions:
Provide authoritative specialist advice on fire prevention, response, and compliance, maintaining expert knowledge of legislation, NHS guidance, and best practice.
- Fire Safety Leadership and Professional Advice: Provide authoritative specialist advice on fire prevention, response, and compliance, maintaining expert knowledge of legislation, NHS guidance, and best practice.
- Statutory and Regulatory Compliance: Interpret and apply the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Building Regulations (Approved Document B), NHS Firecode, Trust policies, and related statutory and non-statutory standards, ensuring compliance through governance arrangements.
- Fire Safety Policy and Specialist Strategy: Lead the development, review, and implementation of the Trust Fire Safety Policy and associated specialist fire safety strategies, ensuring alignment with Trust objectives and national guidance.
- Fire Safety Management System: Develop, implement, and maintain the Trust Fire Safety Management System to provide specialist assurance to senior management and governance committees.
- Fire Risk Assessment Programme: Plan, lead, and monitor the fire risk assessment programme, including specialist areas, ensuring actions are prioritised, tracked, completed, and reported.
Both organisations are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and supportive working environment, and to contributing to the NHS ambition for a Greener NHS.
For full job details please refer to enclosed Job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Recognised qualifications relating to fire safety.
- Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent level of fire safety management competency.
- Evidence of ongoing knowledge attainment including CPD and training in fire safety.
- Training in healthcare fire safety.
- Membership of professional organisation (Institution of Fire Engineers; Institution of Occupational Safety and Health).
Experience
- Extensive experience and knowledge in providing technical direction with regard to fire safety management.
- Experience and knowledge in managing and ensuring building compliance according to fire safety regulations, professional guidance and good practice.
- Experience of managing professional staff, including staff development, performance management.
- Experience of undertaking relevant audits/inspection, fire risk assessments and provide solutions.
- Working experience within a large public sector organisation.
- Experience of Private Finance Initiative contracts and compliance management from a clients’ perspective.
- Experience in the preparation and presentation of reports to Senior Managers and Board members.
Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge and experience in the application of Firecode.
- Knowledge of risk management techniques.
- Ability to process highly complex information into meaningful formats appropriate for the intended audience.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgements.
- Ability to produce procedural documentation and protocols.
- Understanding of complex fire safety issues and risks which impacts facilities management, construction and building services.
- Overall understanding of current health service sector issues.
- Understanding of Private Finance Initiative contracts and contract management from a clients’ perspective.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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