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Job summary

Main area
MIC Divisional Management
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (1 year)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
290-MIC-1658
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trustwide
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Compliance and Assurance Officer

Band 6

 Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.  

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.  

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

 

 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly efficient and professional Compliance and Assurance Officer to join the Medicine and Integrated Care Divisional team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

We are seeking a motivated and experienced individual who can provide comprehensive support and coordination for the quality and safety governance processes managed by the Division.

As a key member of the team, you will be pivotal to ensuring key internal and external reporting requirements related to quality and safety are met, and in helping support consistency in our approach to managing quality performance.

To be successful you will have a flexible and professional approach and be able to deal with emerging and rapidly changing high profile situations regularly.  The ability to communicate information clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, to senior stakeholders is crucial. You will need to use your reasoning, intellect and judgement to manage your workload, make decisions and proactively deal with issues independently. 

Main duties of the job

  • You will provide professional management of Divisional meetings and committees related to quality and safety, including the Divisional Quality and Safety Committee. 
  • As part of this, you will monitor progress against key targets, actions and improvement plans, and mandatory quality reporting requirements, to support the division to continually improve the quality of our care and make our services safer for our patients and community.
  • You will play a crucial role in the coordination and management of administrative systems within Medicine and Integrated Care, including our risk register, reporting cycle, policy review process and safety messaging, helping to ensure that requirements are completed to a high standard and within the appropriate timescales.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.  

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.  Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. 

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly,  part time or job share.  Please talk to  us at interview. .

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or diploma level
  • Experience of reporting to a senior level in a specialist area, for example healthcare
  • Co-ordinating change management in health services
Desirable criteria
  • Project qualification e.g. Prince 2 or equivalent
  • Knowledge of governance and regulatory requirements within a large and complex organisation
  • Knowledge of reporting methodologies

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of co-ordinating staff and management
  • Experience of co-ordinating, reviewing and disseminating large volumes of information
  • Secretarial and/or administrative experience in a large complex organisation
  • Experience of analysing and summarising sometimes complex information from a range of sources
  • Experience of taking notes and minutes of informal and formal meetings and producing accurate records of meetings
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience at supporting executive level committee activity
  • Experience working in a regulatory / governance environment
  • Familiarity with risk management

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of administration and organising, particularly diary management and including arranging events
  • Experience supporting group working, e.g. programmes, projects, panels, etc.
  • Excellent written and communication skills,

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Disability confident employerAccredited Living Wage EmployerNHS Rainbow Badge - BronzeWe Work Flexibly

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Haines
Job title
Divisional Director of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07787002442
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