Head of Fire Safety

Reporting to the Assistant Director of Health and Safety, this highly proactive role will include responsibility for the Fire Safety Team and Management of fire safety across the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. Your principal role will be to implement and manage fire safety Management System whilst providing assurance via a regime of continual auditing, monitoring and review, that the Group has discharged their statutory obligations across all their operational activity.

Acting with autonomy the post holder will develop, implement, manage and monitor policies and procedures relating to Fire Safety, to ensure that all statutory obligations are met and that key risks are actively managed to minimise their impact or likelihood of occurrence, via the implementation of appropriate mitigation plans, business continuity planning and emergency preparedness, response and recovery. You will promote at all times a strong "Fire safety Culture", and will ensure that delegated fire safety, related projects are delivered to the agreed programme, budget and quality, working to recognised Project Management standards.

• Competent professional advice across core areas of fire safety retaining an up-to-date knowledge of statutory and mandatory legislation, national guidance documents and policy
• Ensuring fire risk assessment, fire safety codes of practice, policies, procedure and standards are in place and updated accordingly on a regular basis
• Attending and actively contributing towards the work of relevant groups, committees and meetings across the Group consistent with the scope of the position
• Day to day management of the divisional/corporate Fire safety support team and responsibility for work allocation, and accountability of the fire safety team's performance targets including work plan objectives
• Collaborating with external organisations, Contractors and Consultants as appropriate
• Supporting all Divisional and Corporate managers in their efforts to embed a fire safety culture
• Supporting with the development of leading and lagging indicators and monitoring performance against these, for continual improvement and management related risks
• Assurance reporting
• Attending and actively contributing towards the work of relevant groups, committees and meetings across the Group consistent with the scope of the position
• Attending and participating in the Group Fire safety Group as appropriate
• Be responsible for work allocation, and accountability of the fire safety team's performance targets including work plan objectives
• Collaborating with external organisations, Contractors and Consultants as appropriate
• Competent professional advice across core areas of fire safety retaining an up-to-date knowledge of statutory and mandatory legislation, national guidance documents and policy
• Coordinating freedom of information requests as appropriate
• Day to day management of the divisional/corporate Fire safety support team
• Development implementation and maintenance of risk driven audit programme with clear SMART focussed action plans, undertaking investigations and the provision of reports to give assurance to the Group
• Ensuring fire safety codes of practice, policies, procedure and standards are in place and updated accordingly on a regular basis
• Full line management of the fire team, subject matter experts, including Fire safety Training
• Implementation of a fire safety plan
• Liaising with outside agencies as required on Fire safety
• Manage the professional advisory service provided by the Fire Safety Department
• Management and coordination of a programme of fire safety tours and inspection across the divisional and Corporate management team
• Monitor and report on Group Fire safety Leading and Leading indicators
• Monitor the Groups fire safety arrangements against a reconsider fire safety management system
• Monitoring and evaluation, via a programme of audits the fire safety performance of Divisions and Corporate Services, including their directly employed Contractors and Consultants, against an effective fire safety management system to ensure adequate fire safety resources, that control measures are being fully implemented and remain effective, and all works or services provided are carried out in accordance with the relevant statutory requirements, Codes of Practice, and Group policies and procedures
• Oversight and maintenance of the fire safety internet site
• Planning auditing and training programmes across the Group
• Preparing and providing reports to relevant groups, committees
• Providing advice and guidance on fire safety risk to Divisional and Corporate Directors, Heads of Department and relevant staff as appropriate
• Providing Fire safety advice primarily to Divisional and Corporate staff, but where necessary to the wider Trust, to assist with the resolution of fire safety related issues and assists with the implementation of agreed action plans, and develops Fire safety information resources via a Group Fire safety web site
• Providing operational…