Head of Compliance

Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic, high-performing team dedicated to compliance across soft services? Do you have a background and experience working in leadership of exceptional service provision? Do you want to join a team of professionals who are passionate about maintaining high standards for our patients, visitors and staff? so, we would like to hear from you as we are looking for an amazing Head of Compliance (soft services) to join our team.
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 soft service provisions across a complex and multi-site organisations.
**The postholder**:

- Be the Trust’s lead expert for soft services compliance providing expert professional advice to the Essentia Executive on all current legislation.
- To develop and lead on policies, strategies and for implementation of the Trusts’ soft services annual mandatory programme.
- To continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for patients and staff.
- Acts as emergency manager during major incident for recovery planning purposes.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals - Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
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.
Interest free Season Ticket Loan
Long Term Service Awards
Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'
Ride to work scheme
Employee assistance programme
Free stop smoking service
Compliance
- Lead the food safety and environment & QMS teams to ensure all Essentia soft services are meeting the requirements as set out in legislation, ensuring that legal compliance is maintained under the current codes of practice.
- Oversee regular all site audits for all departments across the entire GSTT estate.
- Oversee the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with agreed standards, other trust-wide policies and processes and best practice requirements.
- Advise Director of Compliance & Assurance, Essentia Leadership Team, Trust Board and Senior Management as required on all current soft services legislation, ensuring that legal compliances maintained under the current codes of practice.
- Oversee legal compliance is maintained as required as required by various Acts of parliament and local by laws.
- Develop long term management plans, procurement strategies for the Trust that are ongoing and related to the 5-year development plans.
- Ensure that changes in industry are monitored for any potential improvement to compliance in all soft services provisions as appropriate.
- Liaise and support the Capital Projects team for (Capital projects) to ensure that all proposed new, consider soft services requirements prior to tendering and installation.
- Maybe required to advise external partners, NHS Trusts, and agencies on all Trust soft services related operational requirements.

Quality Management Systems
- The post holder will be responsible for all elements relating to an internal Quality management System (QMS) across Essentia and on all sites both acute and community and will provide expertise and specialist advice as required ensuring alignment to Essentia strategic objectives.
- Lead a function that pro-actively ensures non-compliance found throughout the internal audit process is logged as a QAR and proactively support service managers to ensure follow up actions are completed and closed out.
- Lead the policy implementation and development of quality management system implementation. Including service policy within directorate and the Trust.
- To lead on the delivery of internal audits and report outcomes through PRMs and Essentia quality and assurance structures. To work alongside operational managers to influence a positive approach to corrective measures identified in audits to create stronger assurance in the delivery of consistent methods of work and service standards.

Leadership
- Lead the team and self by example modelling the Trust values and behaviours, ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion objectives of t