Senior Fire Safety Advisor

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Fire Safety Advisor to provide expert guidance, leadership, and management across all fire safety matters. The role ensures compliance with fire safety legislation, NHS Fire Code and HTM standards, and supports the Trust in meeting its legal duties.

The post involves developing fire risk assessment programmes for all Trust premises, coordinating with Estates and Capital Teams, attending site meetings, and leading investigations

Qualifications

• Expert professional advice on fire safety and compliance.
• Leadership and operational management across fire safety.
• Ability to work with Estates and Compliance teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee a robust fire risk assessment programme for all Trust premises.
• Lead investigations into fire-related incidents and escalations.
• Advise on planning and design of new or existing buildings with respect to fire precautions.
• Ensure compliance with statutory fire safety legislation, NHS Fire Code and HTM standards.
• Report deficiencies in fire safety to Fire Safety Manager and group.
• Contribute to the development and review of Trust fire safety policies and procedures.

Job description

We are recruiting for a Senior Fire Safety Advisor who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Senior Fire Safety Advisor will provide expert professional advice, leadership, and operational management on all aspects of fire safety across the Trust. The post holder will ensure compliance with statutory fire safety legislation, NHS Fire code, Health Technical Memoranda (HTM), and Trust policies, supporting the Trust to meet its legal duties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

Develop and oversee a robust fire risk assessment programme for all Trust premises, ensuring assessments are suitable, sufficient, and reviewed regularly. Ensuring deficiencies relating to either planned maintenance or actual non-compliance of building and engineering fire systems are reported to the Fire Safety Manager and recorded at the Fire Safety Engineering Group.

Advise on the planning and design of new or existing buildings/structures, with particular emphasis on specifications for fire precautions, compliance with applicable fire standards and legislation at both design and construction stages. Attend site meetings and carry out fire safety checks on contractors’ sites and report any breeches of legislation.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Participate as a key member of the Trust Fire Safety Team, in delivery, monitoring and evaluating all aspects of fire safety.

Undertake and complete fire risk assessments, in accordance with HTM 05 and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 where the Trust has fire safety responsibility throughout the Trust, covering all wards, departments, plant rooms and circulation spaces.

Ensuring deficiencies identified in the fire risk assessments relating to either planned maintenance or actual non-compliance of building and engineering fire systems are reported to the Fire Safety Manager and recorded at the Fire Safety Engineering Group.

Work closely with Estates and Capital Teams to provide fire safety input into:

• New builds and refurbishments
• Change of use of buildings
• Fire alarm, detection, suppression, and compartmentation systems
• Review plans, drawings, and specifications to ensure compliance with fire safety standards.

To lead investigations, when needed, fire-related incidents and fire alarm actuations.

Contribute to the development, implementation, and review of Trust fire safety policies, procedures, and strategies.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We Run The Following Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undertake significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen O'Keefe Job title: Head of Compliance and Sustainability Email address: helen.o'[e-mail]