Fire Safety Assurance Lead

MMP Consultancy currently have an opportunity for a Fire Safety Assurance Lead to join a housing association. My client can offer hybrid working with 1-2 days p/w working in the office which is in Croydon.

My client are paying 55,000 - 60,000p/a + Benefits.

Main Purpose Of The Role:

To deliver Fire Safety assurance programs and evidence to the business as part of a wider Fire Safety strategy. To work in both operational and strategic arenas to deliver guidance and advice to ensure my client achieves a measure for assurance. To develop action plans to ensure compliance and best practice.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensuring the integrity of my clients Fire Safety practices by developing, designing and managing the implementation of local small activities and actions to meet the wider Fire Safety Strategy and Fire Safety Risk Management Framework.
• Delivering Fire Safety professional advice with appropriate skills, knowledge and experience to design appropriate strategies to scrutinise and provide assurance across my clients activities and its portfolio of services impacted by fire safety.
• Providing frameworks and monitor to ensure my client meets its legal, moral & financial duties to both Staff & Residents in terms of fire safety matters & fire risk reduction.
• Communicating effectively at all levels with internal and external stakeholders, having the necessary competencies to provide robust challenges when required and diplomacy and tact to ensure delivery of remedial actions.
• Ensuring my client meets its legal, moral and financial duties in building portfolio as a Responsible Person /Accountable Person being a freeholder, leaseholder and social landlord.
• Supporting "Duty Holder" responsibilities and working with key stakeholders to promote compliance.
• Monitoring and delivering effective systems for vulnerable residents monitoring the delivery of PCFRA's/ PEEPs.
• Ensuring outcome focused solutions promoting the use of proportionate and consistent fire risk reduction strategies.
• Design, implementing and monitoring of the Fire Safety Risk Management Framework and Assurance programs.
• Promoting Fire Safety Assurance through proactive monitoring & support as subject matter experts to provide the assurance of the practices of operational staff in a broad range of functions and teams.
• Actively lead, coach, develop and enable the Fire Safety Assurance Officers to ensure high performance and support the successful delivery of Fire Safety programmes.
• Delivery of Assurance Standards for Quality of FRA for 'in scope' buildings including HRB's.
• Assurance Evidence Monitoring of completion of the actions on FRA's - Immediate & Planned.
• QA Assurance of Works Completed for Fire Standards and suitability.
• Assurance of Liaison & Communication with residents and suitability of the information.
• Promoting Building Safety Case File Assurance.
• Assurance of appropriate Resident Liaison carried out under the Building Safety Managers.

Title: Fire Safety Assurance Lead

Salary: 55,000 - 60,000p/a + Benefits.

Location: Hybrid Working (Offices based in Croydon)