Fire Safety Officer

Location: Ideally based close to major road links. There is no set location, as the role requires coverage across England, Wales and Scotland. It will require flexibility to undertake extensive travel and overnight stays

Full-time: Monday to Friday

Salary: ca. £44000

Make a difference by helping keep people safe

At Leonard Cheshire, the safety and wellbeing of the people we support, and our colleagues, is at the heart of everything we do.

This is a Health and Safety Lead role however focuses on Fire Safety responsibilities that provide specialist operational support across multiple locations. It's a hands-on role for someone who understands fire safety and emergency evacuation and can turn compliance requirements into practical, effective arrangements that work in real-life situations.

The role

With a focus on developing and maintaining high-quality Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) youll review, develop and test emergency evacuation arrangements, ensuring they are safe, effective, person-centred and compliant with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and organisational standards.

Activity also includes

• Visiting services to assess whether documented arrangements can be safely implemented
• Planning and delivering practical fire safety, evacuation training and drills, coaching and guidance
• Providing feedback and ensuring learning and actions are recorded and followed through
• Maintaining a central database of evacuation compliance, outstanding actions and concerns
• Reviewing incidents, near misses, and audits to identify trends and significant fire safety and evacuation risks escalating where necessary
• Recommending improvements to policies, procedures, training and operational practice
• Working collaboratively with Service Managers, Regional Directors, Operations, Compliance, Health & Safety, Quality, Clinical, Property & Estates, Fire Risk Assessors and Learning & Development colleagues

About you

Practical experience in fire safety, health & safety, compliance, estates, care services or a similar operational environment is essential.

In addition, youll

• Have experience developing or reviewing emergency evacuation plans and PEEPs
• Be confident in assessing and identifying recurring risks, and turning findings into practical action
• Have the ability to deliver training and guidance to managers and frontline teams
• Be comfortable constructively challenging unsafe or non-compliant practice
• Be organised, analytical and able to manage work independently across multiple locations
• Have experience in audits, inspections and compliance assessments
• Be a clear communicator who can make complex requirements easy to understand
• Be willing to travel extensively to our services
• Be passionate about keeping the people we support and our colleagues safe

Desirable: NEBOSH Fire Safety, IOSH, Fire Marshal/Fire Warden or Train-the-Trainer qualifications, and experience in health and social care or using/delivering training on evacuation equipment.

Why Leonard Cheshire?

At Leonard Cheshire, our values guide how we work and how we make a difference:

• Positive warm and empathetic, we always look to progress and improve.
• Proud strong-willed and spirited, we are firm in our beliefs.
• Pioneering confident and imaginative, we are creative change makers.

Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability and will support, wherever possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

If you have the expertise, judgement and passion to help us make our services safer, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join Leonard Cheshire as our Health and Safety Lead.

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