Job summary
Employer heading
Fire Safety Advocate
Band 4
Job overview
An rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Fire Safety team in the Health and Safety Directorate at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Fire Safety Advocate is a post for a highly confident, highly motivated and conscientious person to support the Trust in its compliance with HTM Firecode and statutory fire safety legislation and guidance.
Main duties of the job
You will support the fire safety team in the promotion of fire safety by proactively raising awareness of fire safety across the Trust. In addition, support the team with associated monitoring and improvement programs.
This will involve the delivery of training, evacuation drills, proactive promotion initiatives, monitoring performance to enhance fire safety culture.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Undertaking fire safety monitoring
Raise awareness of fire safety
Support with the fire risk assessment action plans
Supporting in the delivery of training, including evacuation drills, fire safety mandatory training and fire warden training programme
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HND or equivalent relevant area of knowledge
- ECDL/ RSAII/OCR Advanced Text Processing (Modules: Text Production/Word Processing) or knowledge of Word Processing or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate experience and success in supporting projects
- Experience of administration procedures
- Experience of receiving, collating and updating numerous documents and logs.
- Experience of working in a programme/project environment
- Ability to comment on proposals for change in own work area
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stewart Crowe
- Job title
- Assistant Director of Health and Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07890037794
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