South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone's potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
To lead the short and longer-term quality, safety and strategic development of our estates provision by ensuring effective safety and quality management systems are in place and our strategic estates direction reflects our clinical and business needs. This includes the needs of our staff and our patients.
The role will seek to understand national and local healthcare and workforce policy and priorities, to support assessment of options around our property portfolio to ensure that the estate is occupied on an optimal basis, correctly specified to support needs, delivers best value, enables new and innovative ways of working and integrated care, and is fit for purpose to support patient and clinician needs and safety.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with Operational Directorates, Estates, Specialist leads (e.g. Patient Safety, Health and Safety, Fire, Infection Control), Clinical Academic Groups the role will develop recommendations and strategy that drive clinical care, patient safety and quality and decision making of our site modernisation processes around positioning of the properties, unlocking future development or disposal opportunities for surplus sites.
Working for our organisation
The COO's senior management team is a close hard working team with a Trust wide remit. Work is fast paced, challenging and exciting with delivery of high quality, efficient and safe patient care at the core of all we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work closely with Operational Directorates, Estates, and specialists (e.g. Risk, Health and Safety, Fire and Infection Control) in relation to our estates strategy and delivery to provide clinical expertise, advice and recommendations for the direction to ensure our estates and spaces delivers the best environment for clinical care, patient safety and quality needs, is safe and comfortable and efficiently used.
Interface effectively with appointed Authorised engineers to ensure a full delivery of support, advice, annual reports, planned assurance reports is provided and the Trust effectively acts on recommendations, capital projects and refurbishments.
Work collaboratively with capital and estates, health and safety and infection control to ensure these account for clinical requirements and that quality control and assurance systems are effective and meet statutory, NHS mandatory and best practice compliance requirements to evidence safe and compliant premises.
Work closely with the Capital projects team, and in consultation with operational Directorates provide clinical input into the backlog maintenance and functional suitability risk log to ensure it accurately reflects the level of risk, necessary mitigations are understood and implemented, and works are prioritised according to risk and clinical priority.
Liaise with Health and Safety, clinical leads and capital projects to ensure ligature reduction works identified from audits, inspections and reports are effectively assessed and prioritised, risks are being effectively recorded, reported to the Ligature Reduction Committee and as necessary escalated further.
Engage with a range of internal and external stakeholders to develop and implement new and innovative ways of working to address historic estates issues and future-proof services, accounting for transformational programmes, national and local direction of travel on clinical models and working in an integrated way with multi-agency partners.
Work with capital, estates and property management colleagues to ensure there is a standardised property and asset inventory that assists understanding of estates risks, functional suitability, efficiency of use to inform estates strategic direction.
Liaise with patient safety leads, quality to ensure estates related issues arising from incidents, audits and reports (e.g. SQR, Tendable audits etc) are effectively assessed, prioritised and actioned.
Work closely with Head of Risk and Assurance to review estates risks on risk registers and provide clinical input into the routine estates risk review forum to ensure mitigation and action is prioritised and completed.
Work with the Capital Estates & Facilities Director and Business & Performance Manager to ensure the continuing development and implementation of an effective performance management framework that provides robust evidence-based data and clear and effective assurance reports on compliance, planned maintenance, reactive maintenance and department KPIs for Board, Committees and IQP processes.
Review the capital and estates internal audit and performance measurement processes to ensure demonstrable evidence-based compliance and improvement plans are developed and actioned.
Provide clinical independent scrutiny of our Premises Assurance Model (PAM) returns to ensure accurate reflection of our status and action plans are in placed to address gaps.
Provide clinical input and recommendations for the planning of space utilisation and proposed team moves to ensure decisions reflect clinical need and functional usability.
Oversee the estates technical working groups to ensure effective working, actions progress and reporting into relevant Trust Committees.
Monitor estates actions relating safety alerts (e.g. NPSAs, EFN) to ensure prompt and evidenced action is completed.
Review effectiveness of the existing processes for identifying, reporting, actioning or escalating estates improvements, developments or large scale maintenance issues and make recommendations for improvement.
Develop and enhance systems to strengthen service user/carer involvement into estates strategy and development proposals.
Person specification
Clinical background
Essential criteria
* Qualification
Desirable criteria
* Safety or risk training
Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of working at senior level
Desirable criteria
* Experience of analysing performance data and technical reports
Knowledge/skills
Essential criteria
* Knowledge and understanding of CQC Regulations related to Estates
* Ability to lead and motivate teams from a wide range of disciplines and the ability to deliver through others
* Ability to clearly present and communicate both written and oral information to a wide range of people in a timely manner
Desirable criteria
* Able to cope with high workload and conflicting priorities
The Trust is committed to providing services which embrace diversity and that promote equality of opportunity. We are a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community and people of all protected characteristics. We provide reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability and are committed to treating people fairly with compassion, respect and dignity and in promoting equality and human rights. We aim to put this commitment into practice by:
* Embedding our commitment to tackling inequality, eliminating discrimination and harassment; promoting equality of opportunity and fostering good relations in our everyday practice
* Ensuring that all our services and all staff understand and support our commitment
* We believe that people who use our services, their carers and our staff, should be treated with compassion, respect and dignity
Please note:
* That all applications for this post will need to be made online
* That you read and understand the Job Description and Personal Specification attached to the role. Your Statement in Support should reflect the requirements specified as your application will be judged against these criteria
* That the closing date listed is a guide only and that the vacancy may close earlier should sufficient number of applicants have been received. We advise that you submit your application as early as possible
* That once you have submitted your application you agree to your application being transferred to a 3rd party e-recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs
* That should you not have heard from us within three weeks from the closing date your application has not been successful
* That priority consideration for applications may be given to at-risk NHS employees
* That should you be successful and appointed, you authorise South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to confirm your previous NHS service via an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process
* That we are a smoke-free Trust
SLaM is a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Stonewall is the largest Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBT) rights charity in Europe.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
* Job description (PDF, 544.5KB)
* Person specification (PDF, 432.6KB)
* SLaM Staff Benefits (PDF, 1.1MB)
* Happy to Talk Flexible Working (PDF, 680.1KB)
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