Job summary
To be a Fire Safety Advisor, based at Frimley Park Hospital,
To ensure that Fire Safety courses are developed and delivered to highly professional standards and are in line with the Trust's Fire Policy and strategic direction. To interpret legal requirements in Fire Safety and provide specialist advice to the management structure.
Main duties of the job
Conducting of Fire Safety Training to all staff levels.
Undertaking Fire Safety Auditing of all departments and wards.
Advising Fire safety Manager to fulfill specific duties.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Job description
Job 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 Trusts 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.
Job description
Job 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 Trusts 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
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Professional qualification in fire related subject or equivalent in experience.
Desirable
- IOSH "Managing Safely" Certificate or equivalent.
- Membership of a professional body i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) etc.
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Experience of working within a fire safety environment
- Familiar with NHS structures and processes relating to Fire Safety.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Professional qualification in fire related subject or equivalent in experience.
Desirable
- IOSH "Managing Safely" Certificate or equivalent.
- Membership of a professional body i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers (IFE) etc.
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Experience of working within a fire safety environment
- Familiar with NHS structures and processes relating to Fire Safety.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
