Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
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 organisation. 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.
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 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.
Job 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.
* Lead and develop a compliance and assurance hard services strategy (aligned to GSTT strategy to 2030) and lead the team to successful implementation, improving compliance and assurance performance across all GSTT sites.
* Continually improve reporting systems 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.
* Proactively monitor compliance metrics and identify trends for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance GSTT compliance and assurance performance.
* Act as emergency manager during major incidents for recovery planning purposes.
Person Specification
Experience
* Fully understand the level and the standard of service required to ensure hard services statutory and performance standards are maintained, monitored, and regularly reviewed.
* Fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impact on building owners and occupiers.
* Previous experience of developing and leading hard services strategy and successfully implementing this to deliver a compliance and assurance function to success.
* Substantial experience of operating in a senior hard services role in an estates and facilities context.
Qualifications
* Registered with a recognised professional body.
* Master's 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.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Interim Director, Transformation & Change
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