Health & Safety Lead - Fire Safety

Location: Ideally based close to major road links. There is no set location, as the role requires coverage across England, Wales and Scotland. It will require flexibility to undertake extensive travel and overnight stays Full-time: Monday to Friday Salary: ca. £44000

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Make a difference by helping keep people safe
At Leonard Cheshire, the safety and wellbeing of the people we support, and our colleagues, is at the heart of everything we do.
This is a Health and Safety Lead role however focuses on Fire Safety responsibilities that provide specialist operational support across multiple locations. It's a hands-on role for someone who understands fire safety and emergency evacuation and can turn compliance requirements into practical, effective arrangements that work in real-life situations.
The role With a focus on developing and maintaining high-quality Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs) you'll review, develop and test emergency evacuation arrangements, ensuring they are safe, effective, person-centred and compliant with relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and organisational standards.
Activity also includes Visiting services to assess whether documented arrangements can be safely implemented
Planning and delivering practical fire safety, evacuation training and drills, coaching and guidance
Providing feedback and ensuring learning and actions are recorded and followed through
Maintaining a central database of evacuation compliance, outstanding actions and concerns
Reviewing incidents, near misses, and audits to identify trends and significant fire safety and evacuation risks – escalating where necessary
Recommending improvements to policies, procedures, training and operational practice
Working collaboratively with Service Managers, Regional Directors, Operations, Compliance, Health & Safety, Quality, Clinical, Property & Estates, Fire Risk Assessors and Learning & Development colleagues
About you Practical experience in fire safety, health & safety, compliance, estates, care services or a similar operational environment is essential.
In addition, you'll Have experience developing or reviewing emergency evacuation plans and PEEPs
Be confident in assessing and identifying recurring risks, and turning findings into practical action
Have the ability to deliver training and guidance to managers and frontline teams
Be comfortable constructively challenging unsafe or non-compliant practice
Be organised, analytical and able to manage work independently across multiple locations
Have experience in audits, inspections and compliance assessments
Be a clear communicator who can make complex requirements easy to understand
Be willing to travel extensively to our services
Be passionate about keeping the people we support and our colleagues safe
Desirable: NEBOSH Fire Safety, IOSH, Fire Marshal/Fire Warden or Train-the-Trainer qualifications, and experience in health and social care or using/delivering training on evacuation equipment.
Why Leonard Cheshire? At Leonard Cheshire, our values guide how we work and how we make a difference: Positive – warm and empathetic, we always look to progress and improve.
Proud – strong-willed and spirited, we are firm in our beliefs.
Pioneering – confident and imaginative, we are creative change makers.
We Offer 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Competitive contributory pension scheme
Enhanced family-friendly policies, i.e. maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
Flexible benefits, Cycle to Work scheme, and access to thousands of discounts
Financial wellbeing support, including early access to earned pay and savings tools
Excellent learning and development opportunities plus long service awards and recognition programmes
Leonard Cheshire welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We actively encourage applications from people with a disability and will support, wherever possible, your requirements for reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. xwzovoh
If you have the expertise, judgement and passion to help us make our services safer, we would love to hear from you. Apply today to join Leonard Cheshire as our Health and Safety Lead.