Head of Building & Fire Safety
This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
We’re VIVID! –We offer a vibrant, friendly, inclusive culture that supports, develops and attracts the best people!
We’re seeking a Head of Fire and Building Safety to provide both strategic leadership and hands‑on operational oversight of VIVID’s Building and Fire Safety portfolio, ensuring full compliance with all statutory and regulatory obligations. You’ll lead the Building and Fire Safety team with overall responsibility for the safety of our residents, assets and neighbouring communities, including our High‑Risk Residential Buildings, while maintaining compliance across the wider portfolio in line with current and emerging legislation, regulation and best practice.
Contractually based out of our Portsmouth or Basingstoke office, this is a full-time permanent role, working 37 hours per week. You’ll be expected to attend the office 3 days a week to enable you to build strong working relationships with your teams. When you are performing in the role, we’d offer flexibility in your work location, either the office or home and you’d be expected to work in the office as required.
Want to know what we can offer you?
- 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays), with the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- A productivity-related bonus scheme to enhance your take-home
- A generous contributory pension of 6%. We’ll match employee contributions between 7% and 10%
- Life assurance paid at x 3 annual salary
- Private medical insurance
- Health care cash plan called Medicash
- Enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Access to counselling, legal and financial information
- Electric car scheme
- Huge variety of in-house & e-learning courses and a range of coaching and mentoring programmes
Here’s the facts about the role:
The Head of Fire and Building Safety will lead the fire risk assessment programme, oversee and drive remedial actions, and be responsible for delivering VIVID’s building remediation programme, securing funding and pursuing recovery through the Responsible Actors Scheme. You’ll also act as the accountable person for the Regulation 38 process on new developments, ensuring fire safety is embedded from design through to occupation.
You’ll own and maintain the full suite of Building & Fire Safety documentation, including the Fire Strategy, contracts, procedures and reports, ensuring they are up to date, robust and regularly reviewed. A key focus will be improving the quality of data and electronic systems used to capture, manage and report building and fire safety information, while continuously identifying new initiatives, learning from best practice and positioning the service as professional, high‑performing and sector‑leading. You’ll ensure the service strikes the right balance between safety, customer outcomes and value for money, drives continuous improvement, and stands up as an exemplar when benchmarked against comparable providers. Alongside this, you’ll ensure full compliance with all regulatory, legal, audit and best‑practice requirements and provide strong, effective contract management, setting and delivering clear performance and budgetary targets.
This role requires a senior leader who is qualified by experience and/or holds a recognised building or fire safety qualification (such as NVQ Level 6 Building Safety or a Level 4 Certificate in Fire Safety), with a broad and up‑to‑date understanding of statutory and legislative fire and building safety requirements.
You’ll bring strong commercial awareness, financial acumen and knowledge of IT-based building and fire safety systems, alongside a sound grasp of Health & Safety procedures and best practice. Success in the role will be underpinned by vibrant, inspirational leadership skills, a demonstrable people-focused approach, and the ability to use data and insight to improve service delivery. The role also requires strategic leadership in building and fire safety, and a strong track record of negotiating, procuring, placing and managing contracts.
As this role involves travel, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use is a requirement. Business mileage will be paid.
The Company
We're a leading provider of affordable homes and extensive support services in the south of England. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home, and from the moment customers move into their VIVID home we’re here to help with that and more.
Our customers have access to a wide range of tailored advice to sustain their tenancies and look after their wellbeing. We invest in our homes and communities for the long-term, and this means in the quality, safety and energy efficiency of existing homes and neighbourhoods, with a firm focus on improving services so they’re easy to use and access by our customers.
We’re addressing the shortage of affordable housing in the south, building the right type of homes to meet the needs of our local communities. We’re the sixth largest developer of new homes amongst housing associations in England, having built over 1,500 last year.
This is summed up in our vision “More homes, bright futures”.
Living VIVID
As a ‘people’ business, we work hard to create a high-performing and fun working environment. We invest in our people’s development, whilst looking after their wellbeing with our award-winning initiatives.
Buy / sell
annual leave
Pension
scheme
Smart
working
From 26 days holiday per year
Private medical / medicash benefits
Enhanced
paternity / maternity leave
Qualification funding support
Electric car scheme
We’re committed to diversity and inclusion, and want people from all walks of life to apply for our vacancies.
We’re a disability confident leader with disabled-friendly offices and we’ll make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help you; please note your needs on your application form.
If you need additional support with your application, please get in touch with us
on 02392 896758 or email HRrecruitment@vividhomes.co.uk. We’ll be happy to help.
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