Fire Safety Advisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen to support the Trust with the effective management of Fire Safety. This post will be based within the Estates & Facilities Department.

This post will work across Trusts sites to support the Trust, Departments and Teams in meeting their statutory responsibilities and fire safety needs.

The Fire Safety Adviser will provide a range of specialist expert advice and assistance to a wide range of staff, senior managers and Trust Directors and experience of fire risk assessments in complex settings is essential together with relevant fire safety qualifications.

Shortlisting Planned for 6-Dec-2024

Interviews Planned for- 13- Dec-2024, Responsible for professional fire safety management throughout the estate including advice on planned maintenance, defect maintenance and the implementation of inspections and training. Support the Senior Fire Safety Advisor in the implementation of policy and service development. Deputise for the Senior Fire Safety Advisor in fire safety issues as required.

Advise and make recommendations to the Trust (and where Service Level Agreements are in place, other NHS Trusts), on all aspects of fire safety in accordance with statutory requirements, Codes of Practice, Firecode and other guidance. To ensure that adequate fire safety training is undertaken for all staff within the Trust, appropriate of their environment.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.