Job summary
We are recruiting for a Fire Safety Project Managerwho shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive programme of remediation and repair of the fire systems to ensure the Trust is fully compliant. This will include but not be limited to undertaking a program of suitable and sufficient fire risk assessments, providing competent Trust wide fire safety advice and assist in developing a program of fire safety training. Ensure compliance with fire safety legislation and the requirements of Fire code and HTM05.
The Fire Compartmentation Programme is a key compliance multi-year activity based on recent Fire survey.
The externally generated survey followed an established methodology for identifying breaches of fire safety boundaries which may have occurred due to historic construction project shortfalls and/or poor working practices by contractors and suppliers, or operational / clinical decisions.
The survey has generated a schedule of remedial works which are proposed to be managed through a supplier framework.
You role is to ensure that all surveys are closely monitored, remedial works tracked closed, and all associated reporting delivered to relevant stakeholders.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Ensure service improvement and development of the Estates functions across the Trust and client organisations delivered in line with budget, and internal and external performance targets are met.
Take responsibility for Fire across the Trust and ensure the legal compliance is achieved as outlined below.
Work across sites and partnering Trusts where agreements are in place.
Work on- site and in-person and do not lend yourself to remote working.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Relevant master's qualification or equivalent experience of working senior operational or strategic manager in a relevant field.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD activity
Desirable
- Quality Improvement training or qualification
- Project management training or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of fire safety, advisory function and legislation relating to the safe provision of services.
- Demonstrable skill at fire risk assessments
- Demonstrable experience of managing contractors and subject experts in relation to fire services and safety.
- Programme management experience - experience of driving Trust wide/ multi-site change program
- Experience of managing a team to achieve delivery of planned benefits.
- Experience influencing staff at all levels to ensure project objectives are owned by all members of the team including users and stakeholders.
- Experience of budget management
- Experience of working in a demanding environment with many, sometimes conflicting, priorities
- Experience of successfully developing collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders
Desirable
- Evidence of the ability to involve teams in analysis of situation and solution development persuade teams to take on new ways of working and to constructively challenge the status quo.
Skills
Essential
- Highly computer literate to include Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint.
- Advanced communication skills both written (complex report writing) and orally including advanced formal presentation / facilitation skills.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Good leadership skills - with the ability to direct, empower, motivate, challenge, and facilitate in order to deliver results.
- Commitment to, and experience of, multi-professional working arrangements and projects.
- Takes the imitative to establish immediate credibility with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to deliver quality work in a fast-paced environment and to prioritise work
- Can develop and establish mechanisms (including roll-out) to track progress against plans.
- Has the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Able to solve or pre-empt problems by employing appropriate.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Self-motivated.
- Team Player
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data both complex data both numerical and verbal.
- Ability to thrive under pressure.
- Creativity, innovation, flair, and commercial acumen.
- Adaptable, flexible, and innovative approach to work.
- Politically aware, able to form alliances and influence others.
- A self-starter who knows when to lead.
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience.
- Relevant master's qualification or equivalent experience of working senior operational or strategic manager in a relevant field.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD activity
Desirable
- Quality Improvement training or qualification
- Project management training or qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of fire safety, advisory function and legislation relating to the safe provision of services.
- Demonstrable skill at fire risk assessments
- Demonstrable experience of managing contractors and subject experts in relation to fire services and safety.
- Programme management experience - experience of driving Trust wide/ multi-site change program
- Experience of managing a team to achieve delivery of planned benefits.
- Experience influencing staff at all levels to ensure project objectives are owned by all members of the team including users and stakeholders.
- Experience of budget management
- Experience of working in a demanding environment with many, sometimes conflicting, priorities
- Experience of successfully developing collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders
Desirable
- Evidence of the ability to involve teams in analysis of situation and solution development persuade teams to take on new ways of working and to constructively challenge the status quo.
Skills
Essential
- Highly computer literate to include Word/Excel/Outlook/PowerPoint.
- Advanced communication skills both written (complex report writing) and orally including advanced formal presentation / facilitation skills.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Good leadership skills - with the ability to direct, empower, motivate, challenge, and facilitate in order to deliver results.
- Commitment to, and experience of, multi-professional working arrangements and projects.
- Takes the imitative to establish immediate credibility with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to deliver quality work in a fast-paced environment and to prioritise work
- Can develop and establish mechanisms (including roll-out) to track progress against plans.
- Has the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Able to solve or pre-empt problems by employing appropriate.
Other Requirements
Essential
- Self-motivated.
- Team Player
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex data both complex data both numerical and verbal.
- Ability to thrive under pressure.
- Creativity, innovation, flair, and commercial acumen.
- Adaptable, flexible, and innovative approach to work.
- Politically aware, able to form alliances and influence others.
- A self-starter who knows when to lead.
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda. Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities. Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
- Role model our Trust values every day
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).
