Fra Validator

**Job Title**:FRA Validator (North)
**Contract Type**:Permanent
**Salary**:£47,413.69 (£49,881.62 is achieved after 12 months successful performance in the role)
**Working Hours**:Full time 35 hours per week
**Working Pattern**:Monday to Friday/Hybrid
**Location**:Liverpool

**The difference you will make as a FRA Validator (North)**:
You will implement robust quality control and validation for our in-house fire risk assessment department for low/medium risk buildings and outsourced high-risk buildings and build confidence in the quality of the services being provided. Ensure all fire risk assessment for life safety, are suitable and sufficient, consistently completed to a high standard and compliant with the requirements of the Fire Safety /order and are certified by a competent person.

**About you**

We are looking for someone with (to be taken from essential criteria)
- Demonstrate meet the nationally recognized Competency Criteria for Fire Risk Assessors from the Fire Sector Federation or similar and meet the requirements of a FRA validator
- Extensive experience of undertaking fire risk assessments, with experience in residential fire risk assessments and experience validating FRAs.
- Ability to carry out site visits and physical inspections of work, including accessing loft spaces by means of ladders

**Why Riverside?**

At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

- Competitive pay & generous pension
- 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
- Flexible working options available
- Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
- A wide range of benefits

**Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside**:
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
- This role also falls under our Ethnic Diversity guaranteed interview scheme. If you are Ethnically Diverse and demonstrate you meet the minimum criteria for the role you will be guaranteed an interview. _

**Role Profile**
- Deputize as the lead named person with responsibility and delegated authority to validate documented fire risk assessments on behalf of the Certificated Organization and Maintain a list of all validators
- Support the implementation and review of an effective Fire risk Assessment Validation /procedures of all fire risk assessments completed in hour
- undertake fire risk assessment validations for internal and external FRA and provide feedback from the validation process to the sub-contractor/inhouse staff and agree changes to the assessment report shall with their permission.
- Support the timely program of desktop validations and on-site audit of risk assessment work carried out by each risk assessor when first employed and then repeated annually. The on-site audit shall comprise either an observed assessment of a premises undergoing assessment, or a review of a site previously assessed, witnessed assessments and post FRA site reviews
- Maintain a record of your validation process for each fire risk assessment report. The records shall contain, as a minimum, the unique identifier of the assessment; the name of the premises; the name of the assessor; then name of the validator; the date of the assessment; the date of the validation; brief details of any significant errors and omissions where clarification was necessary
- Support the Co-ordination any external surveillance audits with 3 rd party accreditation for organization
- Implement a procedure to retain all evidence gathered during the fire risk assessment including; observations, notes, photographs, copies of documents and information gained from third parties and ensure that it is maintained in a secure and accessible condition for all risk assessors
- Undertake desktop audits for a sample of fire risk assessment carried out on the detailed notes and gathered evidence during the assessment i.e. observations, notes, photographs, copies of documents and information gained from third parties.
- Support the commission and facilitate all external 3rd party assurance audits and internal business assurance assessment audits, developing management responses to service failures and introduce improvement plans and associated communications to ensure awareness and adherence of standards and compliance requirements.
- Investigate formal standards/procedure violations as they arise