Job summary
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 Trusts role as leader and influencer in South East London and to achieving Essentias 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 etc. are measured and met to agreed deadlines.
About us
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 Guys
* 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
* Weekly lunchtime walking group
* Ride to work scheme
* Employee assistance programme
* Free staff counselling service
* Free stop smoking service
Date posted: 17 March 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8c
Salary: £74,290 to £85,601 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 196-SMT1697
Job responsibilities
The postholder:
* Be the Trusts 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 trend 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 Specification
Experience Essential
* 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 Essential
* Fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impacts on building owners and occupiers.
Experience Essential
* Previous experience of developing and leading hard services strategy and successfully implementing this to deliver a compliance and assurance function to success.
Experience Essential
* Substantial experience of operating in a senior hard services role in an estates and facilities context.
Qualifications Essential
* Registered with a recognised professional body.
Qualifications Essential
* Masters Degree gained within hard services management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship: Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here.
Employer details
Employer name: Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Great Dover Street, London, SE14YB
Employers website: https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx
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