• Job Description

  Req#: C9470-25-0326?language=en&page=229&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Location: Across sites, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (frequency of visits to each site, to be agreed locally)

  Position Type: Permanent, full time 37.5 hours per week

  Salary:Band 7 £47,810 - £54,710 per annum

  We are seeking an experienced and dedicated Fire Safety Manager to ensure the implementation and maintenance of fire safety standards across our complex organisation, including both PFI and non-PFI estates. You will be responsible for ensuring legislative compliance, promoting fire safety practices, and contributing to the development of a safe environment for staff, patients, and the public.

  Main duties of the job

  This role is site-based, with travel required between both the Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust sites. The frequency of travel will be discussed individually, and local agreements on staff mobility will apply.

  About us

  Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

  The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

  Details

  Date posted

  20 August 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £47,810 to £54,710 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  REF1570T

  Job locations

  Queen Alexandra Hospital

  Southwick Hill Road

  Portsmouth

  PO6 3LY

  
  

  St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road

  Newport

  Isle of Wight

  Isle of Wight

  PO30 5TG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead all matters related to fire safety, establishing and managing a fire safety system across the Trust.
  • Provide assurance on statutory obligations for fire safety, advising senior committees and highlighting the impact of legislative changes.
  • Develop and implement fire safety strategies, policies, and procedures for all Trust sites.
  • Conduct regular audits, inspections, and fire drills to ensure compliance with fire safety legislation.
  • Lead fire risk assessments and provide detailed reports to senior management, ensuring actions are completed on time.
  • Manage investigations into fire incidents, produce reports, and advise on remedial actions to reduce incidents.
  • Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure fire safety standards are maintained across all Trust properties, including PFI sites.
  • Provide technical advice on fire safety to capital schemes and ensure the design and facilities meet fire safety requirements.
  • Deliver fire safety training and provide expert guidance to staff across the organisation.

  Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead all matters related to fire safety, establishing and managing a fire safety system across the Trust.
  • Provide assurance on statutory obligations for fire safety, advising senior committees and highlighting the impact of legislative changes.
  • Develop and implement fire safety strategies, policies, and procedures for all Trust sites.
  • Conduct regular audits, inspections, and fire drills to ensure compliance with fire safety legislation.
  • Lead fire risk assessments and provide detailed reports to senior management, ensuring actions are completed on time.
  • Manage investigations into fire incidents, produce reports, and advise on remedial actions to reduce incidents.
  • Collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders to ensure fire safety standards are maintained across all Trust properties, including PFI sites.
  • Provide technical advice on fire safety to capital schemes and ensure the design and facilities meet fire safety requirements.
  • Deliver fire safety training and provide expert guidance to staff across the organisation.

  Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Fire engineering/fire safety qualification to Degree level or equivalent experience
  • Membership of professional organisation (Institution of Fire Engineers; Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

  Desirable

  • Training in healthcare fire safety

  Additional criteria

  Essential

  • Knowledge and experience in the application of Firecode.
  • Knowledge of risk management techniques.
  • Experience and knowledge of undertaking fire risk assessment.
  • Knowledge of:
  • fire safety
  • fire risk management
  • fire legislation and codes of practice
  • fire safety training.
  • Experience of preparing and delivering training courses.
  • Ability to undertake fire safety audits.
  • Ability to process highly complex information into meaningful formats appropriate for the intended audience.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to make administrative procedural decisions and judgements.
  • Ability to produce procedural documentation and protocols.
  • Understanding of complex fire safety issues and risks which impacts facilities management, construction and building services

  Desirable

  • Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
  • Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Building Regulations 2010.
  • Skill in the use of various software, including spreadsheets, contract management systems, presentation software and databases, preferably Microsoft/Windows products.
  • Overall understanding of current health service sector issues
  • Understanding of Private Finance Initiative contracts and contract management from a clients perspective

  Experience

  Essential

  • 5 years of experience in a Fire Safety Management role.
  • 5 years of experience of operating in a management role.
  • Awareness of fire safety and other risk issues.
  • Experience of working across organisational boundaries to improve standards.
  • Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change.
  • Experience in working in a facilities management, construction or building services environment.
  • Experience in presenting complex information to senior staff, responding to questions, and participating in decision making.
  • Awareness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, its practical implications and application.
  • Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented.

  Desirable

  • Working experience within a large public sector organisation.
  • Understanding of fire modelling techniques.
  • Experience in a related area in a responsible capacity.
  • Experience of Private Finance Initiative contracts and compliance management from a clients perspective

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Fire engineering/fire safety qualification to Degree level or equivalent experience
  • Membership of professional organisation (Institution of Fire Engineers; Institution of Occupational Safety and Health)

  Desirable

  • Training in healthcare fire safety

  Additional criteria

  Essential

  • Knowledge and experience in the application of Firecode.
  • Knowledge of risk management techniques.
  • Experience and knowledge of undertaking fire risk assessment.
  • Knowledge of:
  • fire safety
  • fire risk management
  • fire legislation and codes of practice
  • fire safety training.
  • Experience of preparing and delivering training courses.
  • Ability to undertake fire safety audits.
  • Ability to process highly complex information into meaningful formats appropriate for the intended audience.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to make administrative procedural decisions and judgements.
  • Ability to produce procedural documentation and protocols.
  • Understanding of complex fire safety issues and risks which impacts facilities management, construction and building services

  Desirable

  • Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
  • Practical knowledge and interpretation of the Building Regulations 2010.
  • Skill in the use of various software, including spreadsheets, contract management systems, presentation software and databases, preferably Microsoft/Windows products.
  • Overall understanding of current health service sector issues
  • Understanding of Private Finance Initiative contracts and contract management from a clients perspective

  Experience

  Essential

  • 5 years of experience in a Fire Safety Management role.
  • 5 years of experience of operating in a management role.
  • Awareness of fire safety and other risk issues.
  • Experience of working across organisational boundaries to improve standards.
  • Experience of working with external agencies and influencing internal change.
  • Experience in working in a facilities management, construction or building services environment.
  • Experience in presenting complex information to senior staff, responding to questions, and participating in decision making.
  • Awareness of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, its practical implications and application.
  • Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented.

  Desirable

  • Working experience within a large public sector organisation.
  • Understanding of fire modelling techniques.
  • Experience in a related area in a responsible capacity.
  • Experience of Private Finance Initiative contracts and compliance management from a clients perspective

  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

  Isle of Wight NHS Trust

  Address

  Queen Alexandra Hospital

  Southwick Hill Road

  Portsmouth

  PO6 3LY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Isle of Wight NHS Trust

  Address

  Queen Alexandra Hospital

  Southwick Hill Road

  Portsmouth

  PO6 3LY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.iow.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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