Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 311-H690-24-C
- Employer
- Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Town
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/12/2024
Employer heading
Facilities Monitoring and Compliance Officer
NHS AfC: Band 4
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Job overview
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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
• 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 standards.
• To complete a report following each audit.
• To ensure all areas for monitoring are carried out within the timescale required.
• To liaise with Site Leads, clinical leads and estates and facilities colleagues to ensure that all failures are rectified.
• To manage all actions following the audits by creating, distributing and managing all outstanding, and escalating any issues through the correct escalation process.
• To submit a monthly assurance report for inclusion and discussion at the IPC Committee.
• To manage and plan diary to audit all sites alongside site and estates representatives within deadlines.
• To keep the star rating posters etc. up-to-date at each site/ward.
• To ensure any changes are updated on the auditing tools.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- Qualifications and/or experience to diploma level.
- GCSE IT qualification minimum C grade or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Formal auditing qualification
- Formal IT qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience checking and auditing services to an agreed standard
- Proven experience creating, distributing and managing action plans
- Demonstrable experience writing high-quality reports
- Experience working in a role requiring self-management to meet deadlines.
- Experience scheduling meetings/visits with different people.
Desirable criteria
- Working in the NHS / healthcare setting
- Auditing to NHS national cleaning standards
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the principles of cleaning colour coding systems
- Knowledge of assurance reporting through graphs, tables etc. to identify non-conformances, trends and other appropriate data
- Knowledge of NHS national standards of healthcare cleanliness.
- Knowledge of auditing services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- George Hayes
- Job title
- Facilities Quality & Compliance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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