# Fire Safety Support Officer and Facilitator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fire-safety-support-officer-and-facilitator/17cbb58f-3c1f-421e-8a93-b5971f554b51 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fire-safety-support-officer-and-facilitator/17cbb58f-3c1f-421e-8a93-b5971f554b51.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Trust Headquarters, Littlemore Mental Health Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Combined administrative role - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-09T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T10:22:51.638Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Corporate_Services/Corporate_Services-v8229612 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8229612?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualification **Essential** - AET/Fire related Qualification/ significant years of experience within field/healthcare **Desirable** - Healthcare/AET/Fire related Qualification/ significant years of experience within field ### Understanding of relevant legislation **Essential** - Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the Fire Safety Order 2005 **Desirable** - NHS Fire Code HTM 05 ### extensive experience in fire risk assessments **Essential** - Conduct fire risk assessments and provide advice and guidance about the application and interpretation of fire safety legislation and guidance documents **Desirable** - Understanding of British Standards relevant to Fire ## Documents - [fire safety support office and facilitator (pdf, 584.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10539274) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.