Fire Safety Specialist

**The role**

Some additional key duties involve:

- Working with external fire safety partnerships and services, including FRS Primary Authority Partnership, Evacuation Management and Fire Authorities.
- Providing advice and support to other staff, both technical and non-technical, on fire safety related matters such as PCFRA, FRA, PEEPS.
- Performing audit schemes to ensure fire safety standards and documentation is in place.
- Investigating fire incidents, report findings and recommendations.
- Taking part in resident engagements advising residents on fire safety in their own home and at resident forums.
- Providing training to staff and contractors.

You’ll have a base at one of our main offices in either Farringdon, Croydon, Maidstone or Sittingbourne, but it’s expected that you will spend time visiting the portfolio. You will also have the option for working in a hybrid way when appropriate and as agreed with your manager.

**What you’ll need**
- Experience in Fire and Building Safety within the housing sector or similar industry.
- Experience of working with external service providers to ensure service requirements are delivered - FRS, PAP & HSE.
- Experience of maintaining and analysing stock data within the asset database
- Knowledge and experience of working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to deliver improved services and performance.
- Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Pragmatic, creative approach to problem solving, can quickly identify and evaluate problems to reach a solution.
- You'll need a full UK driving licence & access to a vehicle.

**In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing examples.**

**Advert closing date: 3rd December 2023 at 23:59**

**Interview date: Week Commencing 11th December 2023**

**About us**

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the **heart** of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own** **We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

**What's in it for you**

**Pension**

**Life**
**assurance**

**Healthcare cash plan**

**Eyecare & dental**

**Birthday**
**leave**

**Retailers discounts**

**Cycle**
**to work**

**Buy & sell**
**annual leave**

**Season ticket loan**

**In-house academy & career development**

**Flexible working**

**Inclusion & Diversity**

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.