Fire Safety Manager

Fire Safety Manager

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Lead the fire safety culture that protects residents, colleagues and homes

We are looking for an experienced Fire Safety Manager to lead our fire safety operations and strengthen compliance across a diverse national housing and care portfolio. Your expertise will directly shape a proactive, high‑performing safety culture and ensure our buildings remain safe, resilient and fully compliant with evolving regulation.

About the role

You’ll take responsibility for ensuring Fire Risk Assessments (FRAs) are completed on time, actions are prioritised and closed, and our fire safety management systems remain robust and forward‑thinking. You’ll lead and develop our Fire Safety Assessors, provide expert advice across the organisation and work closely with Building Safety, Health & Safety and customer‑facing teams to embed a culture of accountability and resident‑centred safety.

You’ll act as Anchor’s internal fire safety specialist—monitoring regulatory changes, supporting PEEPs and PCFRAs, overseeing fire door surveys and emergency systems testing, and maintaining strong relationships with Fire & Rescue Services and regulatory bodies.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing all fire safety operations across homes and buildings.
• Ensuring FRAs and resulting actions are completed on time and remain suitable and sufficient.
• Leading, coaching and developing Fire Safety Assessors and ensuring competency standards.
• Overseeing fire door surveys, emergency systems testing and maintenance.
• Reviewing and updating Fire Safety Policy in line with legislation.
• Coordinating fire safety training and awareness programmes.
• Supporting teams with RPEEPs, PEEPs and PCFRAs.
• Acting as the organisation’s fire safety expert and trusted advisor.
• Liaising with Fire & Rescue Services, regulators and the Primary Authority.
• Maintaining strong governance, reporting and data integrity.
• Completing FRAs where required for capacity.

What you’ll bring

• Strong knowledge of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and associated legislation.
• Proven experience delivering and managing FRAs (Type 1–4).
• Experience in housing, care or complex property environments.
• Understanding of fire strategy reports, Building Regulations and fire safety management systems.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving and risk‑assessment skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical information clearly.
• Experience leading or mentoring technical specialists.
• Ability to constructively challenge and uphold high compliance standards.
• Customer‑centred approach to decision‑making and strong horizon‑scanning ability.
• Knowledge of cladding remediation, BS 9792, BS 8674, behavioural safety leadership, NFCC guidance and care‑specific fire safety standards.
• NEBOSH Fire Safety qualification; GIFireE/AIFireE/MIFireE (or working towards).
• Ideally working toward MCIOB, MRICS or similar accreditation.
• Ability to travel as required

How you work

You lead with calm authority, technical confidence and a strong sense of responsibility for resident and colleague safety. You communicate clearly, build trust quickly and support others to understand and meet their fire safety duties. You’re organised, proactive and solutions‑focused, able to balance regulatory rigour with a practical, people‑centred approach. You champion continuous improvement, fairness and accountability, creating a culture where safety is everyone’s priority.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.