Fire and Health & Safety Manager

Job description

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 job

As 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 workstreams.

• 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 package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trusts values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trusts values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• NEBOSH Diploma, NCRQ Level 6, NVQ Level 6 in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
• Root cause analysis training or willingness to complete.

Desirable

• Fire safety qualification relevant to healthcare or complex premises.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in health and safety, fire safety or safety compliance within a complex organisation.
• Experience reviewing incidents, near misses, risk assessments and improvement plans
• Experience preparing reports, briefings and assurance updates for governance groups or senior managers.

Desirable

• Experience working across a complex estate or multi site organisation.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Good working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and relevant associated regulations
• Specialist working knowledge of fire safety legislation and relevant healthcare fire safety guidance.
• Ability to produce clear written reports, briefings and action updates

Desirable

• Understanding of CQC expectations relating to safe environments

Kay Attributes

Essential

• Able to work independently within agreed objectives.
• Able to communicate calmly and clearly on complex or sensitive issues

Person Specification
Education/Qualification

Essential

• NEBOSH Diploma, NCRQ Level 6, NVQ Level 6 in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
• Root cause analysis training or willingness to complete.

Desirable

• Fire safety qualification relevant to healthcare or complex premises.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in health and safety, fire safety or safety compliance within a complex organisation.
• Experience reviewing incidents, near misses, risk assessments and improvement plans
• Experience preparing reports, briefings and assurance updates for governance groups or senior managers.

Desirable

• Experience working across a complex estate or multi site organisation.

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Good working knowledge of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and relevant associated regulations
• Specialist working knowledge of fire safety legislation and relevant healthcare fire safety guidance.
• Ability to produce clear written reports, briefings and action updates

Desirable

• Understanding of CQC expectations relating to safe environments

Kay Attributes

Essential

• Able to work independently within agreed objectives.
• Able to communicate calmly and clearly on complex or sensitive issues

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust
Address

Parsons Green Health Centre

2nd Floor, 5-7 Parsons Green

London

SW6 4UL

United Kingdom

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