Health, Safety and Fire Management Team - Fire Safety Strategy Lead
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National pay locations: Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Solihull - £60300 - £66,330 London pay locations: East London - £64,300 - £70,730 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 402623/2 |
Summary
Corporate and Delivery Directorate works closely with the Home Office’s policy and operational commands to enable us together to deliver the department’s priorities. The directorate is comprised of different teams and professional functions, including Commercial, Finance, People, Portfolio and Project Delivery, Security, Estates and Information and Digital, Data and Technology.
The Home Office has one of the most challenging and critical jobs in Whitehall: to keep Britain safe, secure our Borders and protect the vulnerable. We operate at the heart of the Government's agenda, leading on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counter-terrorism and state threats, and work to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. The challenges the Department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate, making this one of the most exciting and stimulating Government Departments in which to work.
The Home Office Health, Safety and Fire Management Team provides professional health and safety policy, guidance, advice, expertise and support to approximately 51,000 Home Office staff based around the globe. The risk profile of roles in the Home Office means we are looking for someone who has the ability to think innovatively and test normal understanding of risk and compliance.
This team works strategically to drive business improvement in health, safety and fire management through staff champions, networks and business leads, promoting approaches including leadership capability development, stress risk assessment, education and campaigns, and evaluating impact through MI and health and safety audits.
In terms of fire safety, the Home Office has a significant and complex portfolio of properties including high and medium risk premises. Our high-risk premises are over 18m high or 6 storeys, include overnight accommodation and/or cells and have areas that are public facing.
The Fire Safety Strategy Lead is a brand-new role that will sit in the central People Health, Safety and Fire Management Team. The successful candidate will be a key driver in building a best practice fire safety management system across the Home Office.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Line manages a small team of Fire Safety Management Business Partners who will be working on a regional/directorate basis.
- Work with external fire safety consultants and own team and relevant stakeholders in the rollout of the new triple pathway evacuation system across the Home Office campus and non-campus buildings. Leading a small number of pilots initially and then planning and rolling out the systems nationally.
- Be accountable for driving up performance and sustaining legal compliance of fire safety management system across the regions, both human and building elements. Will ensure the team rolls out and leads Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for similar buildings aligned to their fire safety conditions risk profile, low, normal and high.
- Be accountable for maintaining fire KPIs and reporting into various governance boards producing relevant reports and slide packs.
- Be accountable for ensuring the Department is legally compliant for fire safety management.
This role is strategic in nature. Whilst you will provide technical fire safety advice on occasion; this position is about ensuring that organisationally and strategically the Home Office is compliant with relevant regulatory requirements, has the necessary resource, technology and processes in place to ensure such – and helps to deliver a safe, compliant and welcoming estate for all that use it.
You will be adept at operating strategically with a technical underpinning in fire safety or closely aligned field. Understanding of commercial and contractual processes, budgetary requirements and resourcing will be required to be successful in this role; coupled with your fire safety competence.
Working pattern
Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, job-share and compressed hours are available.
Travel
Frequent travel in the UK (2-3 times a month) will be required.
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