Estates and Facilities Auditor

The Trust is seeking a focussed individual who has the knowledge and experience to critically appraise the estates & facilities service. The divisional auditor will work from an annual audit plan that seeks to align with the Trusts ethos of continuous improvement against the declared quality standards. This is an opportunity to join a Trust that actively seeks to support staff development and career advancement from within an E&F structure that receives clarity from working to the ISO9001 quality management system.

This role covers the audit function within the Estates & Facilities Division and as such will involve working across a range of estates facilities and property services. As an E&F auditor, you will be responsible for
the delivery of work to a number of E&F departments within Essex Partnership University Trust.

Reporting to the estates Quality Manager, you will enjoy considerable autonomy and responsibility for the delivery of internal estates and facilities audit services across a varied and interesting range of areas. In doing so you will have wide exposure to key managers and directors, as well as the processes, structures and activities of the departments you work within such as ISO standards quality delivery, national cleaning standards, PLACE, PAM mission critical maintenance delivery, capital programmes and general estates and facilities governance.

In line with E&F quality manual, you will develop and deliver the strategic and annual internal audit plans for the each of the estates and facilities departments. You will liaise with managers, senior managers and
directors within the division to develop and agree the scope of the audit work and the required reporting of outcomes covering risks issues and opportunities and alignment with our declared operating model.

You will also be required to attend at pre-audit and feedback meetings with the relevant department head and the divisional quality manager.

EPUT has a large property portfolio, circa 230 properties spread across North, South and West Essex as well as Bedfordshire & Luton. The Estates and Facilities department drives both the day to day and long term maintenance / operational requirements of EPUT. Estates and Facilities work in conjunction with the Properties and Capital Projects teams to meet the needs of the overall healthcare economy.

Please see job description for detailed responsibilities.

**Highlight of some duties as follows**:
To audit and report upon the status of the E&F department standard operating procedures (SOP) in line with the ISO9001 quality management system and the divisional quality manual. The post holder will be expected to work closely with the divisional quality manager in order to achieve an audit ready status.

Ensuring through effective audit techniques that the divisional SOP (standard operating procedures align with the physical service delivery and deviations from the quality manual are declared and SOP’s updated as necessary

Supporting the quality manager to develop and deliver the annual E & F audit plan in line with divisional quality manual.

Contributing to the development of the department strategic, audit plan

Attending pre-audit scoping meetings with E&F management teams

Undertaking research, to develop scoping documents for discussion and approval with the E&F quality manager