Fire Safety Manager

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Fire Safety Manager at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The role requires a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal, strategic, financial, technical and organisational skills to drive forward the capital agenda in South Tees.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Deputy Director of Estates, Capital and Programmes and the wider Estates team.
• Assist in the lead for fire safety across the Trust and be responsible for the Trust’s fire safety programme, delivering an outstanding healthcare environment for patients and staff.
• Ensure fire safety is professionally led, patient focused and strategically aligned with the Trust’s aims and values, embedding best practice and technology at every opportunity.
• Take a collaborative approach in a multi‑stakeholder environment to enable delivery in partnership with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Formulate and lead the development of a Trust‑wide Fire Safety Strategy, promoting a raised awareness of fire across the organisation.
• Develop close working relationships with Executive Directors and Senior managers to establish a coordinated and coherent governance and fire risk approach.
• Ensure effective systems are in place to collate and analyse highly complex information regarding risk management and health & safety.
• Work with senior managers to identify, assess and develop action plans to mitigate risks exposed to the organisation.
• Maintain systems that evidence compliance with legislation, standards and approved codes of practice for fire safety.
• Provide expert support, advice, training and leadership on mandatory and role‑specific fire training; identify, manage, report, investigate and learn from risks and adverse incidents.
• Attend the Leadership Development Programme and the Quality Improvement Programme delivered by the Trust, including four and a half days of training, to develop leadership effectiveness and quality improvement skills.

Training and Development

• South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to enhance leadership and management skills.
• Training focuses on exploring leadership within the NHS, promoting Trust values and behaviours, developing leadership effectiveness, and providing practitioner‑level quality improvement skills.

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