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Fire Safety Advisor

Employer
Finegreen
Location
South East England
Salary
Band 7
Closing date
24 May 2021
Reference
RMH21045

Job Details

A large healthcare organisation is looking to appoint a Fire Safety Advisor on an interim basis for 3 months.

This is a band 7 post, working in the South-Central location.

Promote fire safety compliance throughout the organisation and ensure that all premises maintain high standards of fire precautions.

Main Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for the delivery of statutory fire training to all personnel, arranging specialist courses for fire response teams, fire wardens and patient evacuation techniques.;
  • Deliver training and educational seminars in conjunction with other members of the Compliance, Health and Safety and Risk Team as appropriate;
  • Advise on any issues which would result in failure to comply with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005;
  • Provide informed advice about current best practice and technical guidance;
  • Provide fire-related policies and procedures and ensure a programme of review and revision is undertaken, as necessary;
  • Establish, manage and coordinate the provision of fire risk assessments, audits and inspections and maintain records of such for the organisation’s premises;
  • Provide technical advice to planners, estates management teams and project leaders on new build and refurbishment projects;
  • Enact/maintain the incident investigating and reporting procedure for fire and other general safety issues;
  • Provide assurance that contractors on sites are installing fire safety measures to an acceptable standard;
  • Co-operate in full on the implementation of health and safety arrangements and report any accidents, near-misses, defects with work equipment or inadequate safety arrangements to his/her manager;
  • Liaise with service partners to implement remedial works to ensure fire systems and fire safety equipment if operational and complaint;
  • Carry out annual quality audits of fire alarm systems to ensure service partners are complaint with the service contract and service delivery.
A successful candidate will have:
  • Specialist Fire Safety Courses e.g., Fire Service College or NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety
  • and Risk Management and or relevant Fire Service experience;
  • Qualification in Risk Assessment and/or Health and Safety Regulations;
  • Understand and undertake fire risk assessments within a healthcare environment;
  • Significant experience of Fire safety management providing expert advice and knowledge on fire
  • safety, fire risk management, fire legislation and codes of practice and fire safety training;
  • Ability to carry out fire safety audits and risk assessments;
  • Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
If you are interested in the post and have the above expertise, please do send a copy of your CV in the first instance along with your availability to ria.healy@finegreen.co.uk

Company

Finegreen are a leading independent recruitment consultancy for both Interim and Permanent appointments in various disciplines and market sectors throughout the UK & overseas, with specific strength within the Healthcare and Education sectors.

Our Estates & Facilities division manages a database of immediately available, cost effective, fully referenced candidates with significant experience of the following ;

  • Executive & Director level
  • Soft Facilities Management
  • Hard Facilities Management
  • Surveying and Property Management
  • Engineering (including Building Services and Maintenance)
  • Health and Safety / CDM
  • Project Management
  • Energy & Environmental Management
  • Fleet & Logistics
  • Procurement
  • Bid & Contract Management
  • Compliance
  • Change Management
  • Consultancy
  • Business Development

Please visit our web-site to view brief candidate profiles or to view our latest vacancies.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0345 130 4006
Location
Universal Square
Devonshire Street North
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M12 6JH
GB

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