Senior Fire Safety Advisor | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	02 September 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 October 2025
Location:	Manchester, M20 4BX
Company:	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7453573/413-95152-EF-MS-A

Summary

This role is responsible for the operational and technical management of fire safety on behalf of the Estates and Facilities Division and the Trust. Working for the Senior Fire Safety Officer the role will support and undertake all aspects of fire safety management required to ensure that the Trust is fully compliant to the FireCode (HTM 05-02); the Fire Strategy of the Trust and support all other divisions within Estates and Facilities as required by the Head of Estates and Facilities, such as policy and procedure development. The key areas of responsibility will be fire safety audits and risk assessments; training; evacuation procedures and fire compartmentation.

1. Communication and Relationship Skills

Work with the Senior Fire Officer, Specialist Consultants and all staff at the Trust to ensure compliance of the FireCode (HTM 05-02) and associated fire legislation.

Work with all staff across the Trust to ensure that all training is up to date and recorded and reported.

Work with senior colleagues of Estates and Facilities to ensure communication on all aspects of operational and tactically delivery of fire safety management policies and procedures is adhered to.

Prepare written reports for the relevant governance meetings on behalf of the Senior Fire Officer, Head of Technical Estates – Hard FM and Head of Estates and Facilities as required.



PLEASE REFER TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR A FULL LIST OF MAIN DUTIES.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES



1.Communication and relationship skills

Provide the Trust with operational leadership in the field of fire safety and technical fire detection device management. Undertakes extensive communication within the Trust and with multiple stakeholders often discussing complex technical information.

Be an effective communicator as a senior manager with the team and peers.

Liaise with key stakeholders, the Fire Service and other specialists, as required, to obtain clear advice and guidance on developing a plan of action with a fire emergency leading to relevant changes being made to the fire strategy.

Ensure clear instructions to all contractors and ensure that they comply to the Trust’s policies whilst working on site.

Adaptive to a changing environment and be flexible team member.

Represent and attend various committees where formal presentations may be expected for areas of responsibility.

Represent the Trust, Head of Estates and Facilities and Head of Technical Estates – Hard FM on internal and external forums within this technical area of responsible, as required and carry out appropriate duties to maintain continuity of service.

Negotiate and obtain agreements both in house, communicating with Directors and managers throughout the organisation and with external agencies bodies.



2. Knowledge, Training & Experience

Specialist knowledge on fire safety management is a key corporate responsibility to ensure that the Trust’s policy and procedures are achieved across all aspects of fire safety.

Advise the Trust on fire safety policy and all matters relating to Fire Safety best practice and Fire Safety legislation such as the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 compliance.

Responsible for advising for the reduction of risks relating to fire. Undertake and manage comprehensive fire risk assessments and associated risks identified, including fire compartmentation, warning, and response, means of escape, evacuation and PEEP (personal emergency evacuation plan). Together with emergency lighting and fire signage.

Ability to liaise with the team and advise on fire ventilation and suppression systems to ensure that the estates infrastructure is fully compliant.

Experience of ensuring compliance in relation to fire maintenance and the process necessary to upgrade when appropriate, providing technical reassurance to the Trust.

Lead teams meetings and audits as required. Supporting the fire wardens and marshalls to undertake their responsibilities.



3. Planning & Organisational Skills



Plan fire risk assessments as required and ensure necessary training of staff to support this process. Ensure the training is tailored to meet the operational and legislative needs of all departments across the Trust and ensure that all parties are aware of their statutory duties as appropriate.

Support service interruptions as appropriate in conjunction with other staff within the trust, to ensure all contingencies have been identified and covered, supported by risk assessments, COSHH, method statements and the permit to work systems.

Provide technical support to Capital Projects and Estate Strategy such as Ward and department refurbishments.

Ensure all statutory compliance requirements, systems and standards set for the Trust are in line with legislation, NHS standards and the quality of work accepted by the Trust. Further ensuring that controls result in desired and targeted performance being achieved and duly recorded.

Work to achieve agreed objectives with considerable independence within professional parameters.

Provide authoritative advice on issues responsible for without reference to Head of Estates and Facilities.

Provide technical related reports for committees and governance and support technical associated business case development through to approval and implementation.

Please review the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities


This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025

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