Location
City of London, Barbican Estate Office, Lauderdale Place

Hours
Full Time - 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9:15am – 5:00pm

Salary
£77,400 - £87,880 inclusive of all allowances

About the Role
We are seeking an influential and forward-thinking leader to set the direction for health and fire safety across Community and Children’s Services. As a senior competent person and Head of Profession, you will provide trusted advice, strengthen assurance and lead a culture where safety, wellbeing and continuous improvement are central to every service. This high-profile role offers the opportunity to make a lasting difference for residents, service users, colleagues and partners across a diverse and complex organisation, helping to shape safer homes, services and workplaces.

Your key responsibilities will include developing and delivering an ambitious health, fire safety and wellbeing strategy and improvement plan; providing authoritative advice and assurance to residents, colleagues, senior leaders and Members; strengthening risk management, governance, incident reporting and legal compliance across housing and other services; influencing stakeholders, regulators, partners and suppliers on complex safety matters; leading, developing and championing the Health and Fire Safety Team and wider professional community; using insight, performance information and audits to drive improvement and embed a positive safety culture; managing the service budget; contributing to emergency arrangements; and taking decisive action where there is an imminent risk to life.

This role will initially be workplace based, transitioning into a hybrid working pattern as the contract progresses.

Experience
- Proven record of leading health, fire safety or comparable risk-based services in a large, complex organisation
- Experience shaping strategy, leading organisational change and improving services
- Strong people, programme, performance and budget management skills
- Ability to influence, negotiate and build trusted relationships at every level

About you
You will be a credible senior leader with the judgement, confidence and communication skills to translate complex requirements into practical action. You will demonstrate excellent judgement and communication, with the ability to present complex information clearly to a variety of audiences. A collaborative, customer-focused approach and the confidence to challenge constructively and act decisively are essential.

Qualifications
- A relevant degree or substantial equivalent senior-level experience
- A recognised occupational health and safety qualification, such as the NEBOSH National General Certificate, with appropriate fire safety expertise
- Strong knowledge of health and fire safety legislation, risk management and assurance in complex, multi-site services
- Evidence of continuing professional development