Fire Safety Advisor

The Methodist Church in Britain; Swindon; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Isle of Wight NHS Trust is seeking a Fire Safety Advisor to join the Estates & Facilities team. The role provides specialist fire safety advice across the Trust, covering compliance, risk assessments, audits and staff training.

The post travels to peripheral sites and offers absence cover for the Fire Safety Manager. Five years of fire safety experience are essential, with training delivery experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Science or engineering-based education or extensive fire safety experience.
• Certificate in Training Practice or extensive experience in training delivery.
• 5 years' experience of fire safety.
• Experience collaborating across organisational boundaries and with external agencies to improve standards and influence change.
• Experience of undertaking fire risk assessments.
• Experience of undertaking fire safety audits.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high fire safety standards across the Trust's estate.
• Ensure legislative compliance and a safe environment for staff, patients and the public.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and staff as the focal point for fire safety issues.
• Undertake fire risk assessments and fire safety audits.
• Deliver fire safety training and promote a positive fire safety culture.
• Travel to peripheral sites and provide absence cover for the Fire Safety Manager.

Skills

Effective communication

Negotiation & influencing

Training programme design

Risk assessment principles

Organisational skills

Fire safety knowledge & codes

Education

Science or engineering-based education

Certificate in Training Practice

Job description

The Fire Safety Advisor role sits in the Estates & Facilities team at Isle of Wight NHS Trust, a permanent, full-time post. It involves giving specialist fire safety advice across the Trust, covering legislative compliance, fire risk assessments, audits and staff training. The post supports the Fire Safety Manager, travels to the Trust's peripheral sites, and provides absence cover for that manager across a large and complex estate. Five years of fire safety experience is essential.

What the job involves

• Ensure good fire safety standards are implemented and maintained across the Trust's large and complex estate
• Ensure legislative compliance and a safe environment for staff, patients and the public
• Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and staff at all levels as the focal point for fire safety issues
• Undertake fire risk assessments and fire safety audits
• Deliver fire safety training and promote a positive fire safety culture
• Act as a resource and liaise with managers and staff on fire safety standards and initiatives
• Identify fire safety priorities and help prioritise the capital programme and resourcing
• Provide technical expertise to the Fire Safety Manager
• Provide absence cover for the Fire Safety Manager
• Travel to the Trust's peripheral sites as required
• Attend reported fire incidents at Trust facilities where reasonable, including outside normal hours, without being on call

Qualifications

• Science or engineering-based education, or extensive experience of fire safety
• Certificate in Training Practice, or extensive experience of preparing and delivering training

Experience

• 5 years' experience of fire safety
• Experience of preparing and delivering fire safety training courses
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries and with external agencies to improve standards and influence change
• Experience of undertaking fire risk assessments
• Experience of undertaking fire safety audits

Skills & knowledge

• Effective oral and written communication
• Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills, with constructive relationships across professional and managerial disciplines
• Ability to devise and deliver training programmes
• Understanding of the principles of risk assessment
• Good organisational skills, practical project planning and managing several concurrent schemes
• Knowledge of fire safety, fire risk management, fire legislation and codes of practice

Other

• Able to meet the physical demands of the job, including occasional work at heights and in confined spaces
• Occasional moderate physical effort, such as evacuating patients
• Occasional moving of heavy equipment such as extinguishers and training equipment

Nice to have

• Science, engineering or fire engineering/fire safety degree
• Corporate membership of a professional body such as the Institute of Fire Engineers or the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
• Knowledge and experience of applying Firecode
• Understanding of fire modelling techniques
• Knowledge of risk management techniques