Apprentice Fire Officer

1 week ago


Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals Full time

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen in the Fire Safety Team for an enthusiastic individual to join our team as an Apprentice Fire Safety Officer.

The successful applicant will join our team in providing support and advice to the main acute and mental health hospitals in Leeds.

This position will focus on developing the successful candidate so that they can provide services to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. They will be provided with training courses and mentoring to help them to progress towards the position of a NHS Fire Officer. This will enable them to carry out fire risk assessment, providing fire safety training and day to day fire safety works. If the apprenticeship is completed successfully at the end of the 2 years the candidate should be in the position to apply for a Band 6 Fire Officers position.

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate they have good written and verbal skills and be computer literate. They will be accountable directly to the Specialist Fire Safety Officer.

Expected Shortlisting Date

23/09/2024

Planned Interview Date

17/10/2024

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder will have responsibilities for undertaking the structured learningprogramme as expected from a fire safety apprentice. This will be relevant to the delivery of firesafety in a healthcare setting across an Estate that currently has six hospitalsites and various other properties with a total floor area of approximately500,000 m. The Trust provides a fullrange of acute and specialist services in a variety of buildings dating fromthe late 1800s to the present date. The apprentice fire safety role covers:

Learning and understanding theconcept and practical application of fire risk assessments in a complexhealthcare setting

Learning the concepts of deliveringfire training to a diverse group of staff

Developing fire training methods ofdelivery

Deliver of fire training

Learning the process of offering fireadvice operational and technical

Learning the concept and process ofaudit and inspections

Learning the process of liaison withthe Fire Service and other statutory authorities

Learning the process of fireinvestigation

About us

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is one the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe, withaccess to leading clinical expertise and medical technology. We care for peoplefrom all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of Leeds itself. TheTrust has a budget of £ billion. Our 20,000 staff ensure that every year wesee and treat over 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings,comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 260,000 A&E visits and1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites alllinked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for specialistand integrated care.

Ourvision is based on The Leeds Way, which is a clear statement of who we are andwhat we believe, founded on values of working that were put forward by our ownstaff. Our values are to be:

Patient-centred

Fair

Collaborative

Accountable

Empowered

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our processof redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. Assuch, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the rightto close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you doexperience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, pleasebear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact ifyou have any questions.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Thesuccessful candidate will receive training and mentoring to develop them to aposition where they can: -

UndertakeFire Risk Assessments

ProvideFire training

Reviewtechnical documents

Reviewcapital schemes

Respondto fire safety incidents

Deal with the day to day fire safety issues

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

5 GCSE's Grade A-C

Skills & Behaviours

Essential

Be innovative and problem solving Be keen to learn

Additional Requirements

Essential

Have confidence to talk in front of diverse staff audiences and be confident in public speaking Be computer literate in word and excel

Experience

Desirable

Previous fire safety experience

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