Job title Fire Safety Adviser
Department Human Resources
Salary Starting from £37,099, rising to £44,263
Grade Grade 7
Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended
This role is potentially sponsorable subject to candidates meeting the tradeable points criteria
Placed on Friday 24 May 2024
Closing date Sunday 23 June 2024
Interview date To be confirmed
Reference CC11700
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Joining our Safety, Health, & Employee Wellbeing Team you will be involved in a variety of fire safety initiatives, from the design of academic projects to liaising with our accommodation team. In this dynamic role you will be collaborating with other team members to lead our advisory and monitoring service, using your substantial professional knowledge to deliver pragmatic advice across our fascinating academic and professional services on and around our campus.
About the roleAs our fire safety lead, you will provide a consultancy service which will include comprehensive risk assessments and control measures across a range of building types and processes. Primarily based at our campus you will also have some travel to our other properties in Bath. Developing positive actions and behaviours throughout your audits, inspections, awareness campaigns, you will develop innovative ways to foster a proactive fire safety culture. You will take end-to-end ownership of your audits and inspections and be a key member of our Health and Safety Committee meetings.
About youYou will be experienced in providing fire safety advice within a complex organisation with a wide range of facilities. With a comprehensive knowledge of health and safety legislation especially in respect of fire safety management, you will also have:
This is a hands-on, customer-facing role, which is predominantly based on the Claverton Down campus. There will be some scope for hybrid working although we anticipate that you will usually work at least three days per week on campus.
For more information about this role, please contact Chris Young, Deputy Director Safety & Wellbeing Services ([email protected]).
What we can offer you:Find out more about our benefits.
We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
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Further details:Job Description & Person Specification
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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.