Health – Safety and Fire Manager

Job Description:

Health, Safety & Fire Manager

Cromwell Hospital

Kensington, SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.)

Full Time

£55,000-£60,000 + Fantastic Benefits

Advert Expires: - 24/04/2025

How you’ll help us make health happen.

The Health, Safety and Fire Manager is pivotal in ensuring that the Cromwell Hospital and associated diagnostic centres operate in accordance with relevant health and safety legalisation and best practice principles.

You would be responsible for implementing, monitoring and reporting against an effective safety management system which supports the delivery of business unit ambitions in accordance with Bupa’s enterprise health and safety management framework.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the business unit lead for fire compliance, ensuring Bupa’s enterprise fire strategy is implemented and monitored throughout the hospital and associated diagnostic centres and delivery sites.

• Lead on the completion of robust health and safety risk assessments and root cause analysis investigations ensuring compliance with the risk management and health and safety frameworks.

• Collect, analyse and report incident / accident data across the business unit ensuring learning from incidents is identified, implemented and monitored.

• Ensure managers and staff have the necessary training, knowledge and skills to complete health and safety risk assessments and investigations relevant to their role.

• Design, implement and monitor programmes of audit and assurance against health, safety and fire management actions across the hospital and associated diagnostic centres.

• Work collaboratively with the Risk Manager to ensure health, safety and wellbeing risks are managed in accordance with the enterprise and local risk management framework.

• Ensure each department has clearly documented and practised evacuation plan which considers relevant departmental circumstances.

• Liaise with Estates Department, Building Control, Fire Authority and, where appropriate, designated architects on plans for new builds or refurbishment of existing buildings in relation to legislative fire safety requirements.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Operational health and safety management experience within a healthcare setting.

• Recognised Health and Safety Management qualification to professional diploma level (or working towards)

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing experience

• Hospital/Secondary Care setting (desirable)

• Previous experience within a High-Risk industry (Construction/Hospitals etc...)

• Specific fire background would be advantageous

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• Payment of professional registration fees

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com

If you would like more information on the role, or would like to discuss other opportunities suited to your skills and experience, please contact jack.mccool@bupa.com

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Clinical Services

Locations:

Cromwell Hospital London