Fire Safety Officer

3 weeks ago


Dartford, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

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 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.
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