Fire Safety Officer

An opportunity has arisen for a full-time experienced competent Fire Safety Officer for a 12-month fixed term position, at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust.The Trust has over sixty premises ranging from in-patient mental health buildings to GP practices, and Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup., Ensure compliant standards of fire safety are implemented and maintained across a large and complex Trust. Ensuring legislative compliance, and the continuing development and provision of a safe environment for staff, patients and the public.

Program and conduct a comprehensive programmes of fire safety risk assessments and keep accurate up-to-date records. Communicate the findings of the assessments to the appropriate managers, including where necessary escalation to the Estates department and Head of Safety and Compliance as appropriate.

Deliver a structured program of fire safety drills and keep detailed records and organise and run planned exercises to test efficacy of the implementation of precautionary measures.

Maintain a comprehensive database of the fire safety risk assessments, fire drills, fire safety reports, training material and training records.

Formulate and successfully deliver various fire safety training to staff and managers.

Provide advice to Estates and Facilities staff on the design, build and refurbishment of premises in compliance with HTM-05 series Firecode, building regulations, and legislation.

Provide expert advice and guidance to managers and staff at all levels of the organisation.

You will have extensive knowledge and experience in the application of Health Technical Memorandums (HTM-05 series Firecode), Health Building Notes (HBN series), Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, and the Building Regulations, and their practical implications and application in varied healthcare environments. The Fire Safety Act 2021 and Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 also apply to a small number of our premises.

You must act in collaboration with our Estates and Facilities department and our Health and Safety Team. You will be an excellent communicator, able to train other multidisciplinary team members, partners and contractors regarding risks, controls, design requirements and complex procedures, to provide assurance to the Trust board as to fire safety compliance.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium
secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind


• We're Fair


• We Listen


• We Care