Job summary
Reporting to the Head of Information and Governance, the post holder will support the strategic overview and management of the fire safety team, they will provide assurance for NHS external requests and be responsible for ensuring the estates directorates business is conducted in accordance with appropriate standards and regulations.
The role will be essential in Committee planning and management. You will ensure that governance meetings and its sub-committees run effectively and in line with their terms of reference, and that proceedings and resolutions are properly recorded. You will ensure that decisions, mandates and actions are appropriately assigned and communicated, and status reports are available internally to the estates senior team, and externally for audit and regulatory matters.
You must be a highly influential team player with strong leadership skills to support the team to success, but also able to work autonomously. You will be a point of contact for corporate governance and legal queries, and regulatory bodies including NHS England and Internal and External Auditors.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will strategically support the nominated Fire Managers in accordance with HTM 05-01, formulate, develop, and implement the long-term strategic fire management strategy with the support of the Fire Managers.
The post holder will support and deputise for the Head of Information and Governance providing specialist and highly complex effective and high-quality Estates information capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHSE requirements.
The post holder will be responsible for receiving highly complex facts requiring analysis and interpretation, the planning, developing, and evaluating data, interpreting where appropriate national specialist guidance/legislation to make it locally operational.
To present highly complex quality assurance and performance data information to senior management team and to ensure a robust quality assurance and performance management program is in place.
To work effectively with the senior managers and others to shape and inform the Directorates quality assurance and performance management framework and arrangements.
In addition, the post holder is to derive ongoing assurance from a series of audits to ensure that activities are delivered to complex standards that support the clinical functionality of the estate in a safe and effective manner.
To make specialist judgements across wide range of estates projects taking into account legislation, Health & Safety, content of expert advice and other conflicting demands.
About us
You will be working in the estates directorate in the friendly and welcoming Information and Governance Team. The team is an integral part to supporting the operational departments by providing assurance of their normal activities.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- A Masters (level 7) qualification in leadership or further specialist professional knowledge and experience acquired through formal CPD which provides, or is equivalent to, a masters level qualification e.g. ILM professional membership
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing personal and professional development
Desirable
- Knowledge of Fire Safety Management systems, legislation, risk management theory and techniques
- Experience of carrying out Fire Risk Assessments and managing the delivery of remedial actions
- Chartered member of IFE/IOSH or equivalent governing body
- Membership of professional organisation (Institution of Fire Engineers; Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)
Experience
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses
- Demonstrable experience of having a significant input into the delivery of NHSE&I information collections and returns.
- Excellent knowledge of risk management systems
- Ability to develop and build effective relationships, negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority across organisational boundaries to improve standards.
- Experience of preparing and presenting reports and complex information, written and verbal to a range of audiences including writing policies/ procedures and protocols
- Experience of leading and managing committees & forums
- Demonstratable experience of operating in a senior management role and managing a team of people
- Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change.
- Experience in an acute hospital or large complex organisation
Desirable
- Awareness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, its practical implications and application.
- Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Building Regulations 2023.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to motivate others and demonstrate honesty, integrity, fairness and tenacity.
- Demonstrable self-awareness, an understanding of impact on others and ability to manage self and maintain professional conduct in difficult and challenging situations
- A clear understanding of the use of performance metrics to drive improvement
- Excellent judgement and organisational skills and an ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption.
- Ability to access, analyse and translate to different teams, highly complex data and information to facilitate service improvement
- Ability to quality assure information prior to being presented to the senior management team
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented.
- The ability to concentrate for long periods of time and prioritise and manage a varied and unpredictable work pattern
- Innovator with a positive attitude and willingness to take responsibility.
- Willingness to participate in continued professional development
- Good organisational skills with practical and methodical project planning and ability to manage a number of concurrent schemes.
- Occasional working at heights and in confined spaces e.g. scaffold or roof voids
- Competent in the use of IT packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- A Masters (level 7) qualification in leadership or further specialist professional knowledge and experience acquired through formal CPD which provides, or is equivalent to, a masters level qualification e.g. ILM professional membership
- Demonstrable commitment to continuing personal and professional development
Desirable
- Knowledge of Fire Safety Management systems, legislation, risk management theory and techniques
- Experience of carrying out Fire Risk Assessments and managing the delivery of remedial actions
- Chartered member of IFE/IOSH or equivalent governing body
- Membership of professional organisation (Institution of Fire Engineers; Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)
Experience
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses
- Demonstrable experience of having a significant input into the delivery of NHSE&I information collections and returns.
- Excellent knowledge of risk management systems
- Ability to develop and build effective relationships, negotiate and influence staff at all levels of seniority across organisational boundaries to improve standards.
- Experience of preparing and presenting reports and complex information, written and verbal to a range of audiences including writing policies/ procedures and protocols
- Experience of leading and managing committees & forums
- Demonstratable experience of operating in a senior management role and managing a team of people
- Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change.
- Experience in an acute hospital or large complex organisation
Desirable
- Awareness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, its practical implications and application.
- Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Building Regulations 2023.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to motivate others and demonstrate honesty, integrity, fairness and tenacity.
- Demonstrable self-awareness, an understanding of impact on others and ability to manage self and maintain professional conduct in difficult and challenging situations
- A clear understanding of the use of performance metrics to drive improvement
- Excellent judgement and organisational skills and an ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption.
- Ability to access, analyse and translate to different teams, highly complex data and information to facilitate service improvement
- Ability to quality assure information prior to being presented to the senior management team
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented.
- The ability to concentrate for long periods of time and prioritise and manage a varied and unpredictable work pattern
- Innovator with a positive attitude and willingness to take responsibility.
- Willingness to participate in continued professional development
- Good organisational skills with practical and methodical project planning and ability to manage a number of concurrent schemes.
- Occasional working at heights and in confined spaces e.g. scaffold or roof voids
- Competent in the use of IT packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
