Fire Safety Advisor

Job Overview

To be a Fire Safety Advisor, based at Frimley Park Hospital,

As a Fire Safety Advisor, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding patients, staff, and visitors by leading on all aspects of fire safety across the hospital. You will be responsible for developing and delivering high-quality fire safety training programmes that meet the highest professional standards and align with the Trust’s Fire Policy and wider strategic objectives.

In this specialist role, you will interpret and apply fire safety legislation, providing expert advice and guidance to senior managers and teams to ensure compliance and promote a culture of safety. By combining technical knowledge with strong communication skills, you will support the Trust in maintaining a safe, resilient, and legally compliant environment.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Job

• Deliver engaging and effective fire safety training to staff at all levels, ensuring colleagues are equipped with the knowledge and confidence to respond appropriately in the event of a fire.
• Carry out comprehensive fire safety audits across wards and departments, identifying risks, recommending improvements, and supporting teams to maintain a safe environment.
• Provide specialist advice and support to the Fire Safety Manager, assisting with the fulfilment of statutory duties and the implementation of the Trust’s fire safety strategy.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To work with the Fire Safety Manager to ensure that the facilitation of fire safety training, both theoretical and practical for staff is in place across the organisation in line with the Trust’s Fire Safety and Health and Safety Policies.

The Auditing of Fire Risk Assessments on Wards & departments in line with HTM 05-01.

To ensure that awareness of the strategy and provision for suitable and sufficient training of staff in evacuation procedures are in place for all patient, public and staff areas of the hospital sites.

To support the Fire Safety Manager in ensuring that fire systems are safe, fire fighting equipment is well maintained and that fire doors and escape routes meet appropriate requirements.

To support the Fire Safety Manager to ensure that adequate systems for fire risk assessment and structural risk assessment are in place to satisfy legislative requirements and Fire Authority guidance.

To support the Fire Safety Manager in providing information to Capital Projects and Estates staff regarding the satisfactory completion of fire safety works against published fire risk assessments to satisfy legislative requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Professional qualification in fire related subject or equivalent in experience.

Desirable criteria

• IOSH “Managing Safely” Certificate or equivalent.
• Membership of a professional body i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) etc.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in a fire related role or discipline.
• Experience as a trainer and presenter
• Good working knowledge of legislation, guidance and Approved Codes of Practice that relate to Fire, Health & Safety and Moving and Handling.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a fire safety environment
• Familiar with NHS structures and processes relating to Fire Safety.

Managing

Essential criteria

• Ability to balance workloads
• Strong communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience in a managerial roll

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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