Senior Building Safety Officer Fire Safety Advisor South

Job Title: Senior Building Safety Officer (Fire Safety Advisor)
Contract type: Permanent
Full time: Full Time 35 hours per week 
Salary: £46,154.98 Per Annum
Working Pattern: Monday – Friday
Location: Hybrid / London 
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
The difference you’ll make as a Housing Sustainment Officer
Support the Building Safety Manager (Fire Strategy and Delivery) implement and manage the approach to Fire Safety, including the identification of Building Safety risk, assessment and support decisions on key controls and risk mitigation and providing assurance buildings are safe for customers, including the procurement, implementation and quality assurance of an effective and risk-based program of Building safety inspections, fire risk assessments, intrusive surveys and managing day to day activities which impact on safety of our shared spaces and customer homes.
About you
You will have experience of successfully undertaking the role of (Competent Person) supporting the management of Fire Safety and delivering effective services to large and diverse portfolio of mix tenure properties within the Housing or Health and Safety sector.
Why Riverside? 
At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.?
We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us
Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

• Competitive pay & generous pension 
• 28 days holidays plus bank holidays
• Flexible working options available
• Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
• A wide range of benefits
  

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside: 
We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues.
Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Role requires you to:

Act as the Deputy Group’s lead advisor for Fire Safety across all services, for the lifecycle of buildings, including acquisition, design and build, occupation, refurbishment, demolition and disposal, providing technical, procedural, specification and compliance guidance as required.

Support Building Safety Manager implement our strategic approach to Fire Safety and Building Safety management and develop and implement supporting Fire Safety policy, operational management plans and procedures. 

Work in collaboration with appointed Building Safety Managers by supporting them in carrying out the day to day functions of ensuring that the building is safely managed, including assessment of risk, introduction of effective controls and remediation. 

provide advice to managers and staff to assist them in the fulfilment of their responsibilities and therefore organisational compliance with legislative requirements and where appropriate internal standards and best practice. Such advice should be pragmatic, presenting achievable options to eliminate or sufficiently mitigate risk.

To support and provide advice to frontline workers in carrying out personal centered fire risk assessments (PCFRA) personal emergency evacuation plans (PEEPS) on residents identified as needing support in an evacuation

To investigate and report on all fire incidents and provide recommendations to improve Fire Safety

To proactively identify and report any hazards that could cause imminent harm or injury

To undertake thorough investigations in the event of a fire and identify root causes.

Liaise with insurers and regulatory authorities on Fire Safety matters

To identify appropriate preventative and protective Fire Safety measures

Provide Fire Safety reports where required to support site specific management arrangements to include application of fire hazard control measures

Carry out Fire Safety action plan and fire emergency plans where required

Develop key relationships with our Regulators, enforcement authorities and primary authority partnership, mitigating and monitoring enforcement actions, dealing with safety concerns and managing all communication. Leading approach to any improvement and enforcement actions relating to fire & structural safety and completing actions to mitigate any action against the organization. 

Where necessary, liaise with external enforcement agencies (fire/local authority) and support agencies to develop good working relationships.

To ensure that the health and safety team are informed of enforcement visits; where appropriate attend such visits to assist in organisational compliance.

Ensure residents understand evacuation plans and help with the communication of these

Be a key element of the decision making when considering ways to deliver work in a Fire Safety and meaningful way

To assist in the development/continual improvement, implementation and review of Fire Safety related policies, procedures, manuals and/or Codes of Practice for procedural operations, systems or activities.To develop and maintain effective internal relationships creating a supporting and assisting attitude to foster and promote a positive risk management and safety...