Head of compliance - hard services (Basé à London)

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Great Dover Street

Town: London

Salary: £74,290 - £85,601 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 31/03/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic, high-performing team dedicated to compliance excellence? Do you want to join a team of professionals who are passionate about achieving technical hard services compliance to keep our patients, visitors and staff safe?

Main duties of the job

This is a role which will be key to the Trust’s role as leader and influencer in South East London and to achieving Essentia’s strategic ambitions. The role is a crucial post in ensuring that GSTT is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all hard service provisions across a complex and multi-site organisations. The role will provide effective hard services compliance, and performance services for Essentia Directorate, setting and supporting the performance measurement agenda, ensuring the compliance needs of statutory and mandatory requirements are measured and met to agreed deadlines.

Working for our organisation

We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.

In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including:

• The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
• A minimum of 27 days annual holiday allowance (not including bank holidays), plus the option to buy and sell. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan.
• Long Term Service Awards.
• Sports and social club.
• Subsidised staff gym and leisure facilities at both hospital sites, including a 25m swimming pool at Guy’s.
• Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers.
• On-site cinemas for patients and staff.
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'.
• Ride to work scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Free staff counselling service.
• Free stop smoking service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder:

• Be the Trust’s lead expert for hard services compliance providing expert professional advice to the Essentia Executive on all current legislation.
• Be responsible for communicating complex and sensitive or contentious service-related information to GSTT wider staffing groups outside of Essentia.
• Leads and develop a compliance and assurance hard services strategy (aligned to GSTT strategy to 2030) and lead the team to successful implementation, to improve compliance and assurance performance across all GSTT sites.
• To continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for patients and staff. This may require innovative and new ways of delivering services which may conflict with traditional thinking and opinions.
• Pro-actively monitors compliance metrics and identifying trends for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance the GSTT compliance and assurance performance.
• Acts as emergency manager during major incident for recovery planning purposes.

Person specificationExperience

• Fully understand the level and the standard of service required to ensure hard services statutory and performance standards are maintained, monitored and regularly reviewed.

Experience

• Fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impacts on building owners and occupiers.

Experience

• Previous experience of developing and leading hard services strategy and successfully implementing this to deliver a compliance and assurance function to success.

Experience

• Substantial experience of operating in a senior hard services role in an estates and facilities context.

Qualifications

• Registered with a recognised professional body.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree gained within hard services management.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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