Fire Safety Officer

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Site: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road Campus
Town: Manchester
Salary: £37,338 – £44,962 Per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

The post holder will support the Fire Safety Manager in his duties and will be responsible for bringing the Trust’s fire risk assessment program up to date and ensure compliance with statutory requirements. The risk assessment program needs to be kept up to date to ensure patient/staff safety and to prevent potential legal enforcement by the Fire Service.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include ensuring that suitable fire risk assessments are in place for all premises where the Trust has a responsibility under the RR(FS)O 2005, development of fire risk assessment action plans and coordinating the Trust fire safety training program (including organising, preparing, and delivering training sessions).

You will also be responsible for liaison with the Fire Service, attending and investigating fire calls (including recording and monitoring for trends), preparation of the quarterly fire safety report, incident report investigation, providing reports for and attendance at Divisional H&S meetings, spot checks on areas under a permit to work, arranging evacuation drills and other day-to-day duties as directed by the Fire Safety Manager.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• Science or engineering based education to degree level or equivalent knowledge, training and experience.
• Membership of a professional organisation (i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers IFE; Institute of Fire Prevention Officers IFPO).
• IOSH general certificate or equivalent.

Knowledge & Experience

• Good background knowledge of fire safety legislation acquired through a diploma in fire engineering or experience of reviewing fire risk assessments under the RR(FS)O 2005.
• Experience in the preparation and delivery of training sessions to varied groups.
• An understanding of the evacuation procedures relevant to hospitals.
• Undertaken research to become familiar with how fire safety is dealt with in hospitals and be familiar with the guidance and legislation that is applicable to them.
• Experience in undertaking fire risk assessments.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Possess keyboard skills, ability to produce reports.
• Use of office software packages.
• Holds a current driving license.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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