Interim) FRA

Job purpose

The role will be working as part of the Fire Safety Team and responsible for undertaking fire risk assessments and identifying all fire related risks and issues across Riverside's property portfolio. You will work with other teams to ensure that we reduce the fire risks for our residents and continue to build and maintain homes that meet our Fire Safety standards.
Reporting directly to the Fire Risk Assessment Manager, the post holder will be responsible for promoting good fire safety practices throughout Riverside Group and for ensuring effective fire risk assessments are completed and providing information to support fire safety management.

Role requires you to:

To carry out suitable and sufficient fire risk assessments as defined by Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Undertake fire risk assessments, inspections and audits across its estate including residential premises, supported schemes, commercial properties, workplaces and events.
To be responsible for identifying all fire related risks and issues across the portfolio and specifying what needs to be undertaken to meet any significant findings, clearly identifying all works and not generic statements. Also post inspect necessary remedial actions.
Work in collaboration with Riverside Directorates, Housing care and Support, One Direct, City Style and Riverside Development to maximise fire safety compliance.
Liaise with other professional bodies including Building Control and the Fire Service.
Support operational departments to ensure that our residents, staff and other stakeholders are aware of fire evacuation strategies in their buildings and advise on any potential changes in this strategy.
To ensure that fire risk assessment reports are uploaded promptly and correctly to ODML management system to enable operational teams to update their action plan within agreed timescales.
Liaise with operational teams to resolve risks of any serious and/or imminent danger and prioritise actions arising from the fire risk assessment process in order to resolve the most significant issues first.
Assist Directorates with fire risk assessments including training, technical referral and review.
Support local fire safety awareness campaigns.
Ensure changes to legislation, codes of practice and procedures are identified and implemented effectively in accordance with agreed policies and procedures.
To collate and analyse fire statistics and recommend preventative intervention methods to reduce fire risk
To develop and maintain positive relationships with all Riverside Group Directorates, staff and contractors.
To deliver continuous improvement and maintenance of high professional standards of excellence.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Extensive experience of working within a fire safety risk assessment role and completing high quality assessments for a diverse property portfolio including high risk and complex buildings.
Ability to demonstrate current independent professional accreditation/3rd party certification to FRACC competency criteria (eg Warrington, IFE, IFSM )
Will hold a NEBOSH Fire Certificate or equivalent
Will have a working knowledge of fire service procedures
Will be able to interpret complex fire safety solutions that can contribute to fire strategies
A detailed understanding of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and ability to interpret compliance requirements to a range of different stakeholders.
Ability to understand the impact of the significant findings and demonstrate extensive experience in the practical resolution and completion of these works within a social housing context.
Experience of working effectively with non-technical end users to deliver effective fire solutions and produce high quality technical and end-user advice
Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills, coupled with a professional approach and style
Ability to respond to complex queries and provide innovative solutions
Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical information clearly, accurately and convincingly through speech and/or in writing.
Ability to provide accurate and timely fire advice to colleagues
Results focus: sets high work standards for self and demonstrates drive to meet targets.
Customer orientation: desire and willingness to address the needs of internal and external customers, seeking continually to improve quality & standards of excellence.
Teamwork: contributes actively to a working environment, in which team members work co-operatively with each other, accepting collective responsibility.
Planning & Organisation: prioritises, organises & schedules activities & resources to ensure achievement of results within tight deadlines.
Respect for all: demonstrates awareness of cultural and community diversity and sensitivity to the needs and feelings of other people.
Responsive to change: Receptive to the need for change and adaptable to changing work demands and conditions.
Able to work under pressure and to deadlines.
An aptitude for presenting technical information to non-technical staff / Training.
A full driving licence
Able to demonstrate the application of organisational values in all of their activities.