Senior Fire Safety Advisor - Salford, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

The Senior Fire Safety Advisor is tasked with supporting the Group Fire Safety Manager in the development and delivery of the Group Fire Safety Strategy:

The day-to-day implementation of the fire safety policy and fire safety management plan.
Reporting of non-compliance with legislation, policies and procedures to the Associate Director of Estates.
Deliver a package of Fire Safety Training material across all Care Organisations within the Northern Care Alliance (NCA), with the requirement to interpret and answer questions based upon locality.
Programme, complete and record fire risk assessments including the development of suitable action plans for all required areas.
In the absence of the Group Fire Safety Manager, the postholder will hold full delegated responsibility or deputise accordingly to represent the department across a wide range of services.

Main duties of the job:

The Senior Fire Safety Advisor for the Salford Care Organisation will provide expert fire safety advice to the Care Organisation (CO), Estates Managers and General Manager for Estates and Facilities.

Working for our organisation:

The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) is one of the largest NHS organisations in the country.

Launched in April 2017, the NCA serves over one million people across Greater Manchester and employs over 19,000 healthcare professionals across Bury, Rochdale, Salford and Oldham.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. At the NCA, we can offer groupwide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and engaged team.

We believe in saving and improving lives and are passionate about driving forward significant improvements to the provision of safe, high-quality integrated health and social care to our local community.

If you share our vision, take your place with us.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services.

Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale.

Due to our size and status, we can offer group-wide, flexible multi-site opportunities, as part of our connected, integrated and forward-thinking team.

This is the place where success is achievable and every day offers the challenges, empowerment, freedom and support necessary to break new ground and improve life outcomes.

If you want to play a part in creating a healthier community for Greater Manchester, take your place with us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualifications:

Essential criteria:

Science or engineering based education to diploma level or equivalent or practical experience in fire safety work environment.
Science, engineering or fire engineering / fire safety diploma, CIPFA qualification or attendance at SFPO course or equivalent.
Membership of a professional organisation (i.e. Institute of Fire Engineers IFE; Institute of Fire Prevention Officers IFPO).
IOSH managing safely or equivalent.

Desirable criteria:

Qualified Fire Brigade inspecting Officer.(FSC Modules or Level 4)
Teaching /Assessing qualification

Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience:

Essential criteria:

Excellent keyboard skills, ability to produce documents e.g. reports, procedures, action plans.
Ability to analyse complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented.
Experience in undertaking fire risk assessments.
Experience of reviewing Business Continuity Plans
Experience of working with regulatory external stakeholders
The ability to motivate others to deliver sometimes challenging outcomes
Experience of working across organisational boundaries to improve standards.

Desirable criteria:

Attributes:

Essential criteria:

Ability to work under pressure and deal with difficult situations
Proven organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload with interruptions and changing priorities whilst meeting deadlines
Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to problemsolving
Able to work with mínimal supervision and manage fire safety matters & compliance matters.
Ability to make own judgments having considered the relevant legislation and