Fire Safety Support Officer and Facilitator

Job overview

We are seeking a Fire Safety Support Officer and Facilitator to join our team and play a key role in supporting fire safety compliance across the organisation.

Fire safety is a critical function that supports the wellbeing of patients, staff, and visitors, ensuring that buildings remain safe, compliant, and operational. This rewarding role combines technical expertise, risk management, training, and collaborative working. By identifying fire risks, developing practical solutions, and promoting a strong fire safety culture, you will help ensure the safety of our people and environments while supporting organisational compliance and resilience.

Working closely with colleagues across clinical and corporate services, you will support the delivery of fire safety programmes, provide specialist advice and guidance, facilitate training and awareness initiatives, and contribute to the continuous improvement of fire safety standards across a diverse estate

Main duties of the job

As a Fire Safety Support Officer and Facilitator, you will:

• Support the implementation, monitoring, and review of fire safety policies, procedures, and standards.
• Assist in undertaking and reviewing fire risk assessments and monitoring action plans.
• Identify fire risks and support managers in implementing practical and proportionate control measures.
• Deliver and facilitate fire safety training, awareness sessions, and evacuation exercises.
• Support fire safety inspections, audits, and compliance monitoring activities.
• Maintain accurate fire safety records, reports, and documentation.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff on fire safety legislation, policies, and best practice.
• Work collaboratively with managers, staff, contractors, and external agencies to support continuous improvement.
• Contribute to emergency planning and business continuity arrangements where required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.