Overview
The Fire Safety Manager will lead the operational delivery of fire safety compliance and risk reduction for their designated campus (Northern General Hospital or Central Campus), acting as the Responsible Person (RP) under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 for that site, providing visible, accountable fire safety leadership across their allocated site and acting as the legally designated RP under the RRFSO 2005.
Leading site-level implementation of statutory fire safety requirements, NHS guidance, and Trust policies, ensuring full compliance with HTM, Building Regulations, British Standards, and related codes of practice. Delivering proactive support to capital and refurbishment schemes, ensuring compliance through all stages of design, construction, commissioning, and handover. Coordinating and delivering fire drills, training programmes, fire warden arrangements, and emergency evacuation planning in accordance with HTM 05-01 principles. Working in partnership with the Deputy Head of Governance & Compliance to ensure site level fire safety assurance, incident reporting, policy implementation, and risk register updates.
Responsibilities
* Lead site-level implementation of statutory fire safety requirements, NHS guidance, and Trust policies, ensuring compliance with HTM, Building Regulations, British Standards, and related codes of practice.
* Provide proactive support to capital and refurbishment schemes, ensuring compliance through all stages of design, construction, commissioning, and handover.
* Coordinate and deliver fire drills, training programmes, fire warden arrangements, and emergency evacuation planning in accordance with HTM 05-01 principles.
* Work in partnership with the Deputy Head of Governance & Compliance to ensure site-level fire safety assurance, incident reporting, policy implementation, and risk register updates.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government's rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here.
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Additional information
The postholder will be one of two Band 7 Fire Safety Managers who, together, provide site-level leadership and ensure consistent Trust-wide implementation of fire safety standards in line with Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 05-01 - Managing Healthcare Fire Safety, HTM 05-02 - Fire Safety in Healthcare Premises, and the full HTM 05-03 suite of guidance.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we'll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
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