Fire Safety Awareness Trainer

Fire Safety Awareness Trainer

The closing date is 12 January 2026.

As the Fire Safety Awareness Trainer, you will be responsible for leading the practical skills training on the fire safety agenda, ensuring all our staff are provided with training appropriate to their role. By enhancing the education offering within the Trust, you will make a valuable contribution to patient, staff and visitor experience and safety.

You will be an expert in the field of fire safety, and you will contribute significantly to the development of our fire safety programme.

You will design and deliver a fire warden, fire evacuation and fire response teams education programme that supports patient and staff safety and experience.

Work collaboratively with clinical leads and department managers to equitably roll out fire safety practical skills training in clinical and non-clinical areas.

Provide professional fire safety training advice and support for staff in the workplace.

Identify and address opportunities for shared learning resulting from incidents and complaints.

Link with professional leads across London and nationally to develop fire safety awareness training.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.

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Why Choose UCLH
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• Educated to degree level or hold professional qualification in a fire safety related subject. Eg; NEBOSH certificate in fire safety.
• Adult teaching qualification.
• Excellent knowledge of the Fire Regulatory Reform Order (RRO) and the Health Technical Memorandum in Fire Safety.

• Experience of designing and delivering high quality, specialist practical skills fire safety training.
• Experience of designing and delivering fire safety awareness training to healthcare professionals.

• Computer literate with good skills in office 365 packages (eg; PowerPoint and Word)
• Ability to manage own workload and work as part of a wider team.
• Ability to deliver highly effective fire safety practical skills training to multi-professional healthcare groups.
• Ability to design and analyse evaluation…