Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton in Ashfield Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/06/2025 23:59
Fire Safety Officer
NHS AfC: Band 5
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here annd know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to support the Head of Fire & Security in establishing a comprehensive fire and security safety management system across the organisation. This role involves building key working relationships both internally and externally, and ensuring the Trust meets its statutory obligations in respect of fire safety and security.
You will contribute to the delivery of the Fire and Security Strategies, including supporting policies, protocols, and procedures across all Trust sites. Your responsibilities will include developing guidance and codes of practice to implement the Fire Safety and Security Management Policies effectively.
Key responsibilities include:
* Supporting training and audits aligned with current fire and security legislation and practices.
* Assisting in the preparation of accurate fire risk assessments and tactical emergency response plans.
* Promoting a positive safety culture across all Trust premises and care delivery sites.
* Delivering fire safety advice, prevention techniques, and mandatory training to staff at all levels.
You will also help the Trust achieve compliance with NHS HTM Firecode and the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, as well as Health and Safety Executive requirements.
The ideal candidate will be proactive, professional, and solutions-focused, with strong interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and safety awareness.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Further Training
* On-going professional development as required within competency and skills framework
Contractual Requirements
* Flexibility of working to maintain effective delivery of service
Knowledge
* Educated or experienced in fire safety or equivalent experience
* Knowledge requirement of fire safety legislation and NHS Firecode guidance documents
* Knowledge of design strategies and tactical plans for complex health care establishments
* Good personnel management skills and knowledge of the interrelationships between different service providers within the NHS
* Knowledge of process of risk assessment relating to safety within the workplace
* Previous NHS experience
* Good drafting, interpersonal and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation and external agencies
Qualifications
* Recognised teaching or trainer qualification, NVQ 3 or equivalent
* Good general standard of education
* Hold a recognised qualification in fire safety
Experience
* Highly developed presentation and teaching skills to deliver training programmes throughout a multidisciplinary workforc
* Significant previous experience of working in fire safety or teaching environment
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We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.
Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.
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Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and then the money will then be deducted from your first salary once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £26.40 for a standard check and £54.40 for an enhanced. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.
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