Senior Fire Safety Adviser

Job overview

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust have an exciting opportunity for a senior fire safety adviser to join our team. You will be a senior member of the fire safety team responsible for the management of fire safety and risk across all three sites – Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital and Andover War Memorial Hospital.

To be successful you must be an experienced fire safety professional who can demonstrate an understanding of fire safety legislation including that relevant to healthcare. You will have a track record in delivering fire safety improvement work and providing professional advice that balances fire safety and operational risks.

Main duties of the job

The senior fire safety adviser is responsible for the development and maintenance of efficient, effective and high-quality processes and systems for the management of fire risk including the delivery of proactive work programmes of awareness raising, risk assessments and inspections in compliance with legislative frameworks.

The senior fire safety adviser will work to ensure that the Trust’s fire safety activities reflect national and local guidance and initiatives in relation to fire safety requirements. This includes providing assurance that the Trust is meeting statutory and regulatory requirements and where there are gaps these are clearly and robustly articulated in reports and forward mitigation plans for delivery.

The senior fire safety adviser is the lead competent person in relation to fire safety issues with specific reference to the NHS HTM Firecode standards and the requirements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents

Person specification

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria

Fire safety CPD

Desirable criteria

Training qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

Risk management
Written and verbal communication skills
IT skills

Desirable criteria

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria