Employer: Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Wickford, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 24 Apr 2025
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites. We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our Vision
"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".
Our Purpose
"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".
Our Values
* We Care
* We Learn
* We Empower
Our strategic objectives
* We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
* We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
* We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
* We will help our communities to thrive.
Job overview
The post holder will be a Champion for driving forward best practice in line with the CQC Quality Statements and be responsible for the management and implementation of the Trust's Policy/Procedure and Strategy system and for ensuring that all Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Health Service locations remain compliant with the CQC Registration Standards.
Main duties of the job
Duties include:
* Responsible for undertaking the role of lead auditor in internal comprehensive inspections of Trust services and teams against CQC registration requirements.
* Undertaking comprehensive inspections of compliance across all wards, teams and services.
* Responsible for identification and analysis of information intelligence sources which provide assurance of compliance or indications of risk of non-compliance with CQC Registration requirements.
* Developing robust inspection reports and action plans.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:
* Season Ticket Loans
* NHS discounts for staff
* Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
* Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
* The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
* Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
* Day One Flexible Employer
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for outline of role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Post Registration/ graduate Diploma or equivalent
* Significant and varied post registration experience
* Active professional qualification/registration
* Relevant clinical experience
* Detailed knowledge of the CQC Registration requirements/standards
* Ability to communicate complex, conflicting and sensitive information at all levels in the trust
* Ability to prioritise own and other's workload demands in pressured situations
* Ability to act on own discretion and take action based on own interpretation.
* Experience of design audit tool, undertaking audits and acting on audit findings
* Ability to develop trust wide policies and procedures in line with best practice
* Ability to travel - car owner
Desirable criteria
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
Equal Opportunities Employer
Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. #J-18808-Ljbffr