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Fire Safety Officer
The closing date is 15 June 2025
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.
About us
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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Job 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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