Fire and Health & Safety Manager

Job summary

Join our Resilience Directorate in this newly established management role, where you will play a key part in keeping patients, staff and visitors safe across Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust.

As Fire and Health & Safety Manager, you will provide strategic advice, operational leadership and assurance across fire safety and health and safety. You will help the Trust meet its legal, regulatory and policy requirements while supporting services to identify, manage and reduce risk.

Working across the Trust, you will influence and support managers at all levels to strengthen safety standards, respond to incidents and risks, deliver agreed priorities and promote a positive culture of health and safety.

You will also lead and develop the Fire, Health and Safety Team, creating effective ways to engage colleagues and raise awareness across our workforce.

The Resilience Directorate provides specialist support across areas including emergency planning, major incident management, CQC compliance, medical devices, interpreting and patient and staff logistics.

This is an opportunity to make a visible Trust-wide impact while working collaboratively with colleagues and external partners to create safer environments for everyone.

Main duties of the jobAs Fire and Health & Safety Manager, you will:

Lead the implementation, review and continuous improvement of Trust fire and health and safety policies, procedures, guidance and associated work streams.

Develop and oversee a comprehensive programme of inspections and audits across Trust sites, ensuring compliance with policies, KPIs, national requirements and new legislation.

Act as the Trust's designated Fire and Health & Safety Manager, advising services on the identification, assessment and management of risks and monitoring local action plans.

Lead the Trust's RIDDOR reporting processes, ensuring information is appropriately gathered, reviewed and escalated.

Lead the development and delivery of staff training, briefings and guidance in partnership with the Trust Academy and relevant specialists.

Build effective relationships with external organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive, fire and rescue services and auditors.

Represent the Trust at relevant senior internal and external meetings on behalf of the Director of Resilience.

Lead, manage and develop the Fire, Health and Safety Team, ensuring effective objectives, supervision, appraisal and professional development.

You will work collaboratively across the Trust to promote a proactive safety culture and support continuous improvement in fire and health and safety standards.

About us We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.

What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.

Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.

We offer a competitive employment…