Fire Safety Advisor - WMF2100e

Location: Penrith/ Barrow/ Kendal with homeworking available
Contract Type: Permanent

Are you an experienced fire safety professional who can bring your knowledge and expertise to help us support, influence and embed an excellent fire safety culture?

Reporting to one of the Health and Safety Business Partner’s and working within our friendly and supportive team, you will work in an advisory role supporting with fire safety advice and guidance, as well as conducting and supporting in fire safety risk assessment reviews across our council estate. Your role will help these areas to develop and deliver compliant management practices. Reducing and controlling fire safety risks to our employees, customers and communities, your role will help to ensure that the Council complies with its statutory duties as an employer under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and Health and Safety at Work Act and responsibilities under other relevant acts/ regulations.

The Council provide many services to our communities and work in partnership with a wide range of external organisations. We the employer in our maintained schools and support them by providing the advice and guidance via our health and safety team. In this role you will be challenging, monitoring and influencing fire safety management arrangements, and ensuring fire safety remains a top priority for Westmorland and Furness Council.

As a Fire Safety Advisor, you will provide support across all council service areas. You will be involved in developing corporate fire safety procedures and supporting in service level procedures, conducting fire safety risk assessments, and supporting services with fire safety related advice and guidance. You will have an excellent knowledge of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 as well as the Health and Safety at Work Act and other relevant legislation. This is a great opportunity for an experienced fire safety professional wishing to work in a large, diverse organisation.

“This is a great opportunity to support and feed into the activities of council directorates and to work with Leaders in our services and maintained schools. Working in the Corporate H&S team, we get a great sense of job satisfaction and feel appreciated by our colleagues, helping to influence and embed a strong and positive health and safety culture. "

The right person for this role will be an experienced, driven and proactive fire safety practitioner. You will have significant experience of providing fire safety advice and guidance, as well as in assessing fire safety risks in diverse properties and services. You will work well both as an individual and as enjoy working as part of a team. You will already hold an active Graduate grade membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) or have a qualification meeting the academic requirement for Graduate Member grade such as IFE Level 3 Diploma / former Graduate examination; but applications are welcomed from those who may already be working towards this but have appropriate knowledge and experience.

Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site. Our benefits | Careers (westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk)

For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria please view the below attachments:

For further information, or an informal chat about the role, please contact Alice Gundavda 07785 409532 or Sharon McCubbin 07825 340570.

Closing date: 18th August 2025

We are currently operating both in-person and virtual interviews. Options will be discussed with candidates once they have been invited to the interview stage of the process for this specific position, and if you have any concerns or adjustments are needed, we are happy to discuss this with you.

Westmorland and Furness Council are now able to offer sponsorship for Skilled Worker Visa applications for eligible roles. Please note, we cannot guarantee the eligibility of all of our roles, therefore, if you would like more information on roles that may be eligible please visit the government website - Skilled Worker visa: eligible occupations and codes - GOV.UK.

Westmorland and Furness Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and work to promote an inclusive, supportive culture that values and celebrates our differences.

As a Disability Confident Leader, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We also offer guaranteed interviews to Armed Forces personnel and veterans and those in care or care experienced and under 24 years old (someone who has been looked after by a local authority at any point, for any length of time, e.g. foster care, residential care, or under the guardianship of a local authority) that meet the essential criteria for the role.

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