Fire Safety Officer | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 July 2024 |
| Location: | Dartford, DA2 7WG |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6384770/277-6384770-CORP |
Summary
An opportunity has arisen for a full-time experienced competent Fire Safety Officer for a 12-month fixed term position, at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust has over sixty premises ranging from in-patient mental health buildings to GP practices, and Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup.
You will have extensive knowledge and experience in the application of Health Technical Memorandums (HTM-05 series Firecode), Health Building Notes (HBN series), Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and the Building Regulations, and their practical implications and application in varied healthcare environments. The Fire Safety Act 2021 and Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 also apply to a small number of our premises.
You must act in collaboration with our Estates and Facilities department and our Health and Safety Team. You will be an excellent communicator, able to train other multidisciplinary team members, partners and contractors regarding risks, controls, design requirements and complex procedures, to provide assurance to the Trust board as to fire safety compliance.
Ensure compliant standards of fire safety are implemented and maintained across a large and complex Trust. Ensuring legislative compliance, and the continuing development and provision of a safe environment for staff, patients and the public.
Program and conduct a comprehensive programmes of fire safety risk assessments and keep accurate up-to-date records. Communicate the findings of the assessments to the appropriate managers, including where necessary escalation to the Estates department and Head of Safety and Compliance as appropriate.
Deliver a structured program of fire safety drills and keep detailed records and organise and run planned exercises to test efficacy of the implementation of precautionary measures.
Maintain a comprehensive database of the fire safety risk assessments, fire drills, fire safety reports, training material and training records.
Formulate and successfully deliver various fire safety training to staff and managers.
Provide advice to Estates and Facilities staff on the design, build and refurbishment of premises in compliance with HTM-05 series Firecode, building regulations, and legislation.
Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and staff at all levels of the organisation.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
Ensure there is compliance with all regulatory provisions regarding fire safety in all Trust owned or operated properties.
• Schedule and conduct a program of fire risk assessments in all Trust occupied or owned premises, working to the standards in Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Health Technical Memorandums (HTM’s), Building Regulations, British Standards and other relevant documentation, to ensure the Trust and its buildings comply with current fire legislation.
• Undertaking overarching fire risk assessments in complex hospital buildings, to ensure efficacy of shared arrangements, horizontal evacuation and compartmentation, taking into consideration the profile of occupants.
• Schedule and conduct a comprehensive program of fire drills across all Trust occupied premises, including where necessary outside of core hours to ensure all staff are prepared.
• 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 RRO.
• Maintain suitable clear structured records of all risk assessments, evacuation plans, fire drills and training, kept and accessible, this includes analysis of same when required.
• Take a leading role within the Trust's Fire Safety Committee and prepare agendas and papers.
• Compile end of month and annual fire safety statistics, analyse and produce reports to inform Head of Safety & Compliance, and the Health & Safety Committee.
• Investigate all incidents of fires and fire alarm actuations. Monitor and Analyse trends and patterns to assist the Trust in learning from fire related incidents.
• To maintain an up-to-date resource base of legislation, codes of practice and other relevant literature. To make the resource readily available to other Estates and Facilities staff.
• 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.
• Formulate and deliver a suitable program of fire safety training to a workforce of approximately 4300 staff. Methods to include e-learning, remote training using Microsoft Teams, and face to face training methods as appropriate; include specialist methods where appropriate such as the use of a fire training simulator used in conjunction with fire extinguisher training, and the use of Evac-Chair and other associated evacuation equipment.
• Review with the Head of Safety and Compliance the Trust fire related policies and procedures, updating where appropriate, and communicating to Trust employees.
• Advising and liaising with staff and management at all levels regarding fire safety matters.
• Plan, organise, conduct and report on emergency planning exercises of all types, with an emphasis on fire scenarios, but potentially also covering other emergency planning risk and threat areas. This includes regular communications test exercises, through to live-play exercises with inter-agency involvement i.e. emergency services, other Trusts, Local Health Resilience Forums, Borough Resilience Forums, and other Category 1 & 2 Responders.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jul 2024
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