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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Facilities team for a new part-time (30 hours) Monitoring Officer. We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to work in a high performing team collating, monitoring, analysing and improving standards across Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust (PCFT)'s sites. This will involve carrying out audits and writing audit reports. The majority of audits will relate to cleaning services, as per the standards in the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness (NSoHC), but the postholder may be required to support with other audits across the department. To achieve this, the postholder will be required to attend each site as per the NSoHC frequencies to carry out the audits, which include in-patient wards, community clinics and offices across the trust footprint. The postholder will ensure all aspects of the standards are kept up-to-date, such as updating the star ratings.
The postholder will also need to write a monthly assurance report for Trust senior management, as the Trust's assurance towards NHS standards and requirements. The postholder will be responsible for creating, distributing and managing action plans following each audit and reporting completion/assurance to the relevance governance meetings alongside any trends. The postholder shall have good communication with site leads and domestic and estates teams to resolve any areas of concern or failure for rectification.
Main duties of the job
o To carry out cleanliness audits across Trust sites as per the frequencies set out in the National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness. Sites will include in-patient wards and community sites to audit a range of different elements as set in the To complete a report following each To ensure all areas for monitoring are carried out within the timescale To liaise with Site Leads, clinical leads and estates and facilities colleagues to ensure that all failures are To manage all actions following the audits by creating, distributing and managing all outstanding, and escalating any issues through the correct escalation To submit a monthly assurance report for inclusion and discussion at the IPC To manage and plan diary to audit all sites alongside site and estates representatives within To keep the star rating posters etc. up-to-date at each site/ To ensure any changes are updated on the auditing tools.
About us
The postholder will be joining the facilities team which sits in the Capital Investment and Estates Services department at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, delivering all soft FM services across the Trust. The team are passionate about ensuring we provide high-quality and effective facilities services to our staff and service users. The team demonstrate and live by the Trust values and behaviours each day, and we work together as one team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification of this role have been attached to the advert. Should further information be required ahead of an interview, please use the contact information included.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
1. Qualifications and/or experience to diploma level.
2. GCSE IT qualification minimum C grade or equivalent
Desirable
3. Formal auditing qualification
4. Formal IT qualification
Experience
Essential
5. Experience checking and auditing services to an agreed standard
6. Proven experience creating, distributing and managing action plans
7. Demonstrable experience writing high-quality reports
8. Experience working in a role requiring self-management to meet deadlines.
9. Experience scheduling meetings/visits with different people.
Desirable
10. Working in the NHS / healthcare setting
11. Auditing to NHS national cleaning standards
Knowledge
Essential
12. Knowledge of the principles of cleaning colour coding systems
13. Knowledge of assurance reporting through graphs, tables etc. to identify non-conformances, trends and other appropriate data
14. Knowledge of NHS national standards of healthcare cleanliness.
15. Knowledge of auditing services