Authorised Fire Engineer

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust are looking for EOI in the following:- Authorised Fire Engineer The Trust provide wide-ranging NHS care for people in the community, in a range of settings including people's own homes; nursing homes; health clinics; community hospitals; minor injury units; a walk-in centre and in mobile units. We are one of the largest NHS community health providers in England, serving a population of about 1.4 million. We employ over 5,500 staff, including doctors, community nurses, physiotherapists, dieticians and many other healthcare professionals. KCHFT have 9 Community Hospitals with a bed capacity of approximately 20 beds per hospital. Background As directed by Health Technical Memorandum 05-01, Managing healthcare fire safety, KCHFT has a dedicated Fire Safety Group. The group will be led by KCHFT's Fire Safety Manager with the support of an external authorising fire engineer (AE). In Scope (based on a 3 year contract):- Initial high level compliance review to be reported to the first Fire Safety Group meeting within the first 3 months of contract start:- Current Policies and Procedures and in house training review (desktop review) PPM shortfalls review (desktop review based at a KCHFT site) Assurance that the right resources are in place and recommendations if not. Current levels of compliance systems for Fire safety to include recommendations

Ongoing tasks:- • Annual review of 2 fire risk assessments • Annual review of PPMs (based at a KCHFT site) observing contractors and reviewing paperwork • Annual risk-based report on findings above with executive conclusions & recommendations. 1 day preparation and 1 day presenting • Annual review of KCHFT Authorised Persons. • Free to service technical support by telephone and email (detailed document checks and other works requiring attendance over 1 hour to be charged at agreed rate). • Adhoc advice/attendance on specific projects as and when required to be charged at daily rate/half day rate as appropriate Attendance at Fire Safety Group (FSG) Meetings The Trust would require attendance at the FSG Meetings based on the following structure (via Teams):- Year 1 - Month 3, 6 and 12 Year 2 - Month 6 and 12 Year 3 - Month 6 and 12

Contract 3 year contract initially with the option to extend by 2 x 12 month tranches.

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