Fire Safety Awareness Trainer

Job overview

As the Fire Safety Awareness Trainer, you will be responsible for leading the practical skills training on fire safety agenda, ensuring all our staff are provided with training appropriate to their role. By enhancing the education offering within the Trust, you will make a valuable contribution to patient, staff and visitor experience and safety.

You will be an expert in the field of fire safety, and you will contribute significantly to the development of the our fire safety programme.

This vacancy is being re‑advertised to allow applicants to express their preferred working pattern.

We welcome applications from candidates seeking either:

• 0.8 WTE (30 hours per week), or
• 0.4 WTE (15 hours per week) as part of a job‑share arrangement alongside a job‑share partner.

Please indicate your preferred working pattern clearly in your application.

Candidates who have previously applied for this role do not need to reapply.

Main duties of the job

You will design and deliver a fire warden, fire evacuation and fire response teams education programme that supports patient and staff safety and experience.

Work collaboratively with clinical leads and department managers to equitably roll out fire safety practical skills training in clinical and non-clinical areas.

Provide professional fire safety training advice and support for staff in the workplace.

Identify and address opportunities for shared learning resulting from incidents and complaints.

Link with professional leads across London and nationally to develop fire safety awareness training.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row.

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