We're looking for a passionate individual who thrives on making things safer for everyone. Your experience will help shape our fire safety strategy, pushing us to meet the highest standards while providing support to a diverse workforce. If you're ready to embrace a challenge, develop our safety culture, and lead crucial projects, we want to hear from you! At NELFT, we celebrate diversity and encourage applications from women and individuals with caring backgrounds. Let’s work together to enhance lives—apply today!
This is a role which will be key to the Trust's role as leader and influencer in North East London foundation Trust and to achieving NELFT's strategic ambitions.
The role is a crucial post in ensuring that NELFT is compliant with legal and statutory requirements and that all fire safety regulations under current codes of practice are addressed across the NELFT portfolio.
The postholder will be the Trust's lead expert for fire safety providing expert professional advice to the Trust board and senior management on all current fire safety legislation and Assistant director of estates.
To lead, provide expert specialist and professional fire information service for all capital projects, provide advice to other clients/partners, directors, and senior management of the trust.
To develop and lead on policies, strategies and for implementation of the Trusts' fire compliance annual mandatory programme.
To continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
This post is responsible for the effectiveness of comprehensive fire safety training programme, for all types of staff at all levels in the Trust.
The successful candidate will need to be able to:-
- Oversee the development and implementation of capital procurement policies for the Estates Service (Fire) responsible for development of capital projects policies (Fire) for the Trust.
- Review & ensure all fire policies are up to date and relevant to any legislative changes.
- Develop highly complex fire plans across the Trust and ensure that these are put in place across the trust.
- Oversee regular fire safety audits and risk assessments for all departments.
- Oversee the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with agreed standards, other trust-wide policies and processes and best practice requirements.
- Advise Assistant Director of estates, Estates Leadership Team, Trust Board and Senior Management as required on all current fire safety legislation, ensuring that legal compliances maintained under the current codes of practice.
- expected to travel to different sites
- Manage the in house fire risk assessor and their programme of works
- Manage the fire safety email and fire related inphase
About us
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
References
Please ensure that the references are from your most recent employer and one of these must be your direct Line Manager or Supervisor. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. Additionally, ensure that any gaps in your employment history are clearly indicated. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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