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Ref: 196-ESS1254-A Vacancy ID: 5452183

Fire Safety Training Manager

Closed for applications on: 24-Jul-2023 00:03

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Closed for applications on: 24-Jul-2023 00:03

Location

Guys and St Thomas NHS Trust Hospitals
London
SE1 9RT
London

Contract type & working pattern

Permanent
Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

£51,488 - £57,802 pa inc HCA
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Fire Safety

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

A great opportunity has arisen for a Fire Safety Training Manager to join our Team, to provide the necessary leadership to embed fire safety training across the Trust. 

The post holder will join a dynamic and skilled team which provides fundamental assistance to clinical and non-clinical teams in understanding and implementing all fire life safety legal and statutory requirements.

We are seeking individuals with a proven track record in handling training across a large complex workforce and estate, providing professional expertise and service. The successful candidate will have strong presentation skills and be able to provide assurance of compliance levels across the Trust.

Experience in the correct Standards, Regulations and Guidelines is essential.

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Main Duties and Responsibilities

All fire related training will be managed and conducted by the Fire training manager. They will be responsible for carrying out all fire safety training and providing data to demonstrate completed sessions. The role will include, but is not limited to:

·        Work closely with Clinical teams to create training schedules

·        Basic fire safety and the fire safety protocols;

·        Fire safety responsibilities and reporting structures;

·        Actions to take on discovering a fire;

·        Actions to take on hearing the fire alarm;

·        Procedures for evacuation;

·        Staff responsibilities during a fire incident;

·        Specialist roles (switchboard staff, estates staff, Fire Wardens, local security management specialist etc.);

·        Review online training materials and documentation

·        Provide & maintain all records

·        Planning Quality & Improvement initiatives

·        Good communication skills
 

For full details, please refer to the full job description.

Working for our organisation

We offer a vital and challenging role in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment.  We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development and you will have access to the Education Programme through the Essentia Academy.

In addition to this we offer excellent benefits including:

·        The NHS Pension scheme

·        Season ticket loan

·        Employee Assistant Programme

·        A comprehensive staff Health and Wellbeing Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Performance Management

 

All fire related training will be managed and conducted by the Fire training manager, and will be responsible to carry out all fire training which will include but not limited to:

 

Fire Safety awareness

  • basic fire safety and the fire safety protocols;
  • fire safety responsibilities and reporting structures;
  • actions to take on discovering a fire;
  • actions to take on hearing the fire alarm;
  • procedures for evacuation;
  • staff responsibilities during a fire incident;
  • specialist roles (switchboard staff, estates staff, Fire Wardens, local security management specialist etc.);
  • review online training materials

 

Evacuation

The fire training manager will arrange and carry out the fire drills and manage general fire safety with the Trust, which is where the coordinator role will be key to making this successful.

  • Table top exercises
  • Practical evacuation equipment
  • Fire Extinguisher
  • Experiencing Smoke filled areas (with the use of specialist equipment)

 

Unit Specific Evacuation Plans (USEP’s)

Additional training should be provided to meet the special needs of particular locations and for those staff who have special responsibilities.

  • Nursing staff and any others who may have to assist in the evacuation of patients should receive instruction and training in appropriate methods of evacuation – that is, techniques for moving and assisting patients (and others) to evacuate quickly in an emergency. The special problems of moving patients from critical care areas and similar locations

 

The fire safety training manager will advise the Fire Safety manager and to help coordinate, advise and support all fire safety training requirements on existing sites and infrastructure and within the capital development department.

 

An effective programme of fire safety training will enable staff to learn about and practise basic actions and to appreciate the wider implications of the fire safety strategy, including:

 

  • the reasons for fire and smoke compartmentation of buildings and for protected escape routes to the open air
  • the importance of ensuring that the intended functions of fire/smoke doors are not prejudiced by the dangerous practice of wedging them in the open position
  • the significant findings of relevant fire risk assessments
  • the dangers of locking fire-exit doors – no fire-exit door on any escape route to be secured by a means requiring the use of a key or digital keypad for egress
  • the need for a clear procedure for allowing contractors to work within healthcare premises
  • the need to be familiar with escape routes, site layout, and the internal layout of the premises in which they work and reside, and to recognise the need to keep
  • escape routes free of obstruction and rubbish
  • the potentially fatal consequences of the spread of fire, smoke and toxic gases
  • the importance and benefits of reducing false alarms and unwanted fire signals

 

Education & Training

·        Provide fire training at induction, maintain online training, fire warden training, mandatory fire training clinical staff, ward evacuation and special training as appropriate (fire teams).

·        Undertake the delivery of organising and providing staff fire warden training for all departments and continuity as required under the Fire Code Policy.

·        Undertake as required induction, fire training and fire warden training in line with fire safety Training programme for all types and levels of staff within the Trust

·        To be responsible for training equipment used in the department.

·        To keep an inventory of equipment, arrange for maintenance as appropriate and the purchase (via the Supplies Department) of necessary educational equipment in accordance with prevailing budgetary arrangements

·        To assist in promoting a high standard of fire safety education for all staff, including in service training in the form of lectures and practical demonstrations and advising on fire prevention aspect within the Trust.

·        To plan, execute and monitor the effectiveness of comprehensive Fire Safety training

 

Communications
  • Responsible for communicating fire technical information to staff as appropriate.
  • Exchanges specialist fire safety information with partner fire specialists and consultants.
  • Ensure that effective communication exists at all levels and key local and corporate messages are effectively communicated to all staff.

Risk & Corporate Governance

Manage the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with agreed standards, other trust-wide policies and processes and best practice requirements.

 

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master’s Degree or equivalent experience gained within fire safety management
  • Experience gained within fire safety training management.
  • The ability to understand, characteristics of fire and the science of fire safety training. Practices, guidance, and legislation concerning fire safety in relation to health care premises.
Desirable criteria
  • Other training e.g., college courses, evening classes

Professional/ Statutory Registration

Essential criteria
  • Registered with a recognised fire professional body i.e. Member of the Institute fire prevention officers / Member of the Institute fire Safety Managers or Fire training equivalent

Previous experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience gained undertaking in a large complex multi-site NHS organisation
  • Experience of working in teams and on own initiative with limited support, with an understanding of when to seek support
  • Experience of working in accordance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 & HTM 05 series of guides
  • Demonstrable experience in problem solving in order to assist in developing robust evacuation plans and fire training strategies within the workplace, with significant experience gained in the process to ensure legal compliance in accordance with the various Acts of Parliament and Local by-laws required under health & safety an appreciation of the intricate language of legal documents etc.

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria
  • In-depth knowledge, of the regulatory reform order, Firecode and HTM 05.01, managing healthcare fire safety 05.02 guidance and support of functional provision in healthcare premises.
  • Undertaken fire safety training course. Has an understanding of the relationships between various departments in order to ensure coordination of ongoing fire safety training delivery across the Trust
  • Trained and experienced in Staff training. Excellent interpersonal communication (written and oral) skills
Desirable criteria
  • Understanding of clinical and operational requirements of Trust departments in order to plan and manage suitable fire safety training arrangements

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Andrew Parnham
Job title
Head of Fire Safety
Email address
[email protected]
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