Fire Safety Adviser inWinchester inWinchester PUBLISHED
THU 7 NOV 2024
The Fire Safety Adviser will work closely with the fire safety manager to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, implementing policies and procedures that reflect national and local fire safety initiatives. Responsibilities include conducting awareness programs, inspections, and maintaining governance processes to monitor compliance and prioritize fire safety improvements.
Do you have a passion for fire safety in the public sector? We are recruiting to our fire safety team and are looking for a fire safety adviser to support the delivery of fire safety improvements across the Trust.
The fire safety team are responsible for delivering fire safety improvement work across all three sites - Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Work is varied and includes delivering fire training and drills, undertaking fire risk assessments, working with contractors, investigating near misses and incidents and providing fire safety advice in a range of clinical and non-clinical settings.
We are looking for an experienced fire safety professional who will be able to understand and interpret NHS Firecode standards, balancing fire safety and clinical operational risks.
To work as a core member of the fire safety team to develop and maintain a fire safety culture and environment which will reduce the risk of harm to patients, staff and visitors. This includes the delivery of proactive work programmes of awareness raising, risk assessments and inspections in compliance with legislative frameworks.
The post holder will work to ensure that the Trust's fire safety activities reflect national and local guidance and initiatives in relation to fire safety requirements. The post holder will work with the fire safety manager to provide assurance that the Trust is meeting statutory and regulatory requirements relating to these functions and where there are gaps these are clearly and robustly articulated in reports and forward mitigation plans for delivery.
The post holder will support the fire safety manager to ensure that appropriate policies, procedures, systems and arrangements are in place to support fire safety and that robust governance processes are in place to monitor the implementation and effectiveness of compliance within and across the Trust. This includes the prioritisation of fire safety improvement works.
The post holder will support the fire safety manager in relation to fire safety issues with specific reference to the NHS Firecode standards and the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
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