Trust Fire Safety Manager

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

safety regulations under current codes of practice are addressed across a complex and

• Be the Trust’s lead expert for fire safety providing expert professional advice to the Trust board and senior management on all current fire safety legislation and RRO.
• To lead, provide expert specialist and professional fire information service for all capital projects, provide advice to other clients/partners, directors, and senior management of

• To develop and lead on policies, strategies and for implementation of the Trusts’ fire compliance annual mandatory programme. To continually improve reporting systems

• This post is responsible for the effectiveness of comprehensive fire safety training programme, for all types of staff at all levels in the Trust

Main duties of the job

• Oversee the development and implementation of capital procurement policies for the Estates Service (Fire) responsible for development of capital projects policies (Fire) for the Trust.
• Review & ensure all fire policies are up to date and relevant to any legislative changes.
• Develop highly complex fire plans across the Trust and ensure that these are put in place across the trust.
• Oversee regular fire safety audits and risk assessment for all departments.
• Oversee the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with agreed standards, other trust-wide policies and processes and best practice requirements.
• Advise Director of Compliance & Assurance, Essentia Leadership Team, Trust Board and Senior Management as required on all current fire safety legislation, ensuring that legal compliances maintained under the current codes of practice.

Working for our organisation

• We are caring
• We are inclusive
• We are ambitious

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Lead the fire policy implementation and development of fire management &

• Oversee the annual undertaking of highly complex risk assessments and

• Oversee the conduct of a range of fire related surveys and audits.
• In conjunction with the wider team, monitor the provision and maintenance of fire

• Implement regular fire safety audits on an annual, 24-month and 36-month basis and

• Chair and hold regular meetings with fire team and clients/users and to address any

• Lead the team and self by example modelling the Trust values and behaviours,

• Ensure that team structures and individuals employed within the various services are

• Develop and lead a team that will drive and support high performing business

• Ensure that staff are effectively managed and developed within a performance

• Ensure compliance with all mandatory training and optimal completion of Trust/NHS

• Actively promote good communication and employee engagement throughout the

• Promote effective leadership to Essentia staff, encouraging ‘one team’ working and

• Responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and development for all

• Invest in the development of all directly accountable employees on an equitable basis

• Provide visible leadership to promote a fair and just culture that ensures that Essentia

• Contribute to talent management and succession planning across Essentia.

• Lead the development of a positive and organisational culture that promotes

• Champion EDI across GSTT, ensuring that all functions are inclusive and promote

• Represent Essentia at Trust level senior management meetings as necessary.
• Represent Essentia and the Trust at ICS, Regional and National levels as and when
• Actively promote and champion the equality, diversity and inclusion ambitions of the

• Participate, and on occasion lead, negotiations with external providers and enhance

• Participate in the performance management of Essentia at corporate level.

• Work within a performance management framework, ensuring that clear performance

• Analyse performance across the Trust’s entire asset base in relation to performance

• Be accountable, and hold staff accountable, for the delivery of all agreed objectives

• Ensure that appropriate strategies, plans, delivery and implementation frameworks

are in place to ensure that an excellent environment for patient care is maintained at

environmental and political changes.

• Ensure that services are delivered so as to achieve value for money and meet all

• Ensure all staff comply with the Trust’s financial standing instructions and financial

• Responsible for departmental budgets, ensuring adherence to in year budget

• Manage fire budget and procures physical assets; purchases assets and selects

• Implement policies as required and contributes to policy and service development as

• Identify process improvements and assignments to respond to organisational and/or

• From time to time, to provide support to Essentia colleagues undertaking other duties

• Strict adherence to departmental health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Any other duties appropriate to the role.
• Requirement to work at any other site used by the Trust, partners or clients.
• The successful applicant will be required to work on site 4 days per week.

Person specification

Skills

• Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
• Significant in -depth knowledge, of the regulatory reform order, Firecode and HTM 05.01, managing healthcare fire safety 05.02 guidance and support of functional provision in healthcare premises.
• Fire Service training college course fire training certification. Significant understanding of the relationships between various departments in order to ensure coordination of ongoing service delivery across the Trust
• Understanding of the relationships between Facilities departments and their impact on the process of Project works and compliances
• Significant experience of development of Fire Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Practical application of fire prevention theory, and highly developed specialist detailed knowledge of building fire design and construction
• Formulation and presentation of technical reports.
• Interpretation of guidance and legislation of the fire precautions Act and NHS Fire code

Experience

• Substantial experience of operating in a senior fire safety role in an estates and facilities context
• Fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impacts on building owners and occupiers.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of budget/financial Management.
• Substantial staff management experience which will include external contractors and their effective management.
• Significant experience gained in the process to ensure legal compliance in accordance with the various Acts of Parliament and Local by-laws required under health & safety an appreciation of the intricate language of legal documents etc.

Knowledge

• Master’s Degree or equivalent experience gained within Operational fire safety management
• Technical aspects of firefighting equipment. Alarm and detection systems. Structural fire precautions
• Registered with a recognised fire professional body
• The ability to understand, characteristics of fire and the science of fire prevention. Practices, guidance, and legislation concerning fire safety in relation to health care premises

• Member of the Institute fire prevention officers / Member of the Institute fire Safety Managers
• Knowledge of technical memorandums, building notes and other NHS guidance

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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