Job summary
An rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Fire Safety team in the Health and Safety Directorate at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The Fire Safety Advocate is a post for a highly confident, highly motivated and conscientious person to support the Trust in its compliance with HTM Firecode and statutory fire safety legislation and guidance.
Main duties of the job
You will support the fire safety team in the promotion of fire safety by proactively raising awareness of fire safety across the Trust. In addition, support the team with associated monitoring and improvement programs.
This will involve the delivery of training, evacuation drills, proactive promotion initiatives, monitoring performance to enhance fire safety culture.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertaking fire safety monitoring
Raise awareness of fire safety
Support with the fire risk assessment action plans
Supporting in the delivery of training, including evacuation drills, fire safety mandatory training and fire warden training programme
Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertaking fire safety monitoring
Raise awareness of fire safety
Support with the fire risk assessment action plans
Supporting in the delivery of training, including evacuation drills, fire safety mandatory training and fire warden training programme
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Qualifications
Essential
- HND or equivalent relevant area of knowledge
- ECDL/ RSAII/OCR Advanced Text Processing (Modules: Text Production/Word Processing) or knowledge of Word Processing or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate experience and success in supporting projects
- Experience of administration procedures
- Experience of receiving, collating and updating numerous documents and logs.
- Experience of working in a programme/project environment
- Ability to comment on proposals for change in own work area
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
Qualifications
Essential
- HND or equivalent relevant area of knowledge
- ECDL/ RSAII/OCR Advanced Text Processing (Modules: Text Production/Word Processing) or knowledge of Word Processing or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate experience and success in supporting projects
- Experience of administration procedures
- Experience of receiving, collating and updating numerous documents and logs.
- Experience of working in a programme/project environment
- Ability to comment on proposals for change in own work area
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Ability to use different styles of communication at all levels
- Ability to deliver training
- Ability to appropriately communicate changes to project information
- Able to manage own time and work unsupervised
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
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).
