Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £38,626 to Scale 31 £40,476
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tame Street Depot, Tame Street, Stalybridge, SK15 1ST
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
The Fire Safety Officer will work as part of a team in supporting the Health and Safety Manager in the provision of a professional health and safety service to Council services and to external clients. The work of the service will support the Council’s aims and objectives and facilitate the effective management of health and safety risks, in order to ensure effective governance, statutory compliance and best practice.
About You
Applicants must have an excellent understanding of fire safety legislation and best practice along with experience of completing complex fire risk assessments to PAS79, providing competent guidance and support on managing fire safety risks, delivering fire safety related training, completing accident investigations and implementing safety policies and procedures. The role requires substantial previous work experience in a fire safety related role.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Reference Number: DPT654
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