Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical Lead for Compliance
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
The post holder will be a Champion for driving forward best practice in line with the CQC Quality Statements and be responsible for the management and implementation of the Trust’s Policy/Procedure and Strategy system and for ensuring that all Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Health Service locations remain compliant with the CQC Registration Standards.
Main duties of the job
Duties include:
- Responsible for undertaking the role of lead auditor in internal comprehensive inspections of Trust services and teams against CQC registration requirements.
- Undertaking comprehensive inspections of compliance across all wards, teams and services.
- Responsible for identification and analysis of information intelligence sources which provide assurance of compliance or indications of risk of non-compliance with CQC Registration requirements.
- Developing robust inspection reports and action plans
Please see JD and PS for full duties of the role
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for outline of role and responsibilities.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Post Registration/ graduate Diploma or equivalent
- Significant and varied post registration experience
- Active professional qualification/registration
Desirable criteria
- Ward or Team Management experience
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Ability to advise on how policy and procedure should be implemented in line with best practice guidelines
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience
- Detailed knowledge of the CQC Registration requirements/standards
- In depth knowledge and experience of working within Health and Social Care services
- A broad knowledge of the supporting agendas and frameworks that impact on service delivery
- Ability to communicate complex, conflicting and sensitive information at all levels in the trust
- Ability to prioritise own and other’s workload demands in pressured situations
- Ability to act on own discretion and take action based on own interpretation.
- Ability to undertake auditing, monitoring and investigation
- Ability to make judgements about information involving complex facts received and action on this appropriately
- Experience of design audit tool, undertaking audits and acting on audit findings
- Ability to develop trust wide policies and procedures in line with best practice
- Ability to travel – car owner
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Webb
- Job title
- Emergency Planning and Compliance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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