Engineering Compliance Manager

Job summary

This is a pivotal leadership position responsible for ensuring that all Statutory and Mandatory requirements for Building & Engineering compliance provided by in-house teams and contracting partners are satisfied and all operational performance is being appropriately managed.

The successful candidate will possess a high level of building and engineering technical expertise that will be shared with the Operational teams to provide operational excellence, patient, staff and visitor safety, and effective management of the estate.

In line with the NHS Management and Leadership Framework and Code of Practice, the post holder will demonstrate compassionate, inclusive and accountable leadership, model GSTT values, and create psychologically safe environments in which staff can speak up, learn and improve.

The post holder will use service, workforce and quality insight to identify and reduce inequity, support anti-racist practice, and improve fairness, belonging and outcomes for staff, patients and service users, including people from marginalised groups.

As one of the Essentia Leadership Team you will be required to work one weekend every 3 months and be part of the Directorates on-call rota.

Main duties of the job

Ensures that the Trust Estate is compliant in terms of Statutory, Mandatory, Regulatory, Best Practice, HTM and other relevant standards, including providing advice on compliance implications of any Department of Health or Health and Safety Executive initiatives or changes in legislation.

Ensure that the Building & Engineering services, both outsourced and in-house, are compliant with the required specification and standard against national statutory, regulatory, best practice and contractual standards; and where there is a gap in compliance to ensure this is escalated to the Head of Compliance.

Ensure that the Trust complies with its responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• Care Quality Commission (CQC) (Registration) Regulations
• Health & Social Care Act
• Department of Health guidance relevant to Estates and Facilities Services
• Health Technical Memorandum 00 Policies and principles of healthcare engineering.
• GSTT Policies

About us

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

Our Trust values: We areCaring / Ambitions / Inclusive

Job description

Job 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

Qualifications/ Education

Essential

• Education to first degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience, in an engineering discipline alongside additional in-depth professional training and specialist knowledge.
• Authorised Person/ Responsible Person training/qualifications.
• H&S qualification, NEBOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification / demonstrable knowledge Diploma, IOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification / demonstrable knowledge.

Desirable

• Chartered Engineer (CEng).

Professionals/ Statutory Registration

Essential

• No statutory professional registration is specified unless explicitly required for a local appointment, authorisation or designated responsible person duty. Role-specific appointments must be supported by appropriate competence, training and formal Trust authorisation / governance arrangements.

Previous experience

Essential

• Track record of engineering compliance experience within an Estates, Facilities, infrastructure or equivalent complex operational environment.
• Detailed understanding of the engineering requirements within a complex NHS environment.
• Experience of leading complex services in the NHS or an equivalent regulated environment, with evidence of service improvement, compliance and stakeholder partnership working

Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent understanding and specialist knowledge of NHS Estates departments.
• Highly developed communication skills, with ability to communicate highly complex information where exceptional influencing skills are required.
• Demonstrates advanced practical engineering skills acquired through extensive training and experience, including the ability to inspect, assess and diagnose defects within complex healthcare engineering systems.
• Detailed technical understanding of legislation governing the provision of Building & Engineering services and the ability to translate this into practice

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Extensive track record of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret highly complex data, filtering and interpreting information to identify and focus on issues to be addressed, developing plans to resolve.
• Intellectual flexibility with the ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity and to shape solution and implement a solution that provides more effective and innovative service delivery models.
• Proven strong written communication skills, in particular for complex drafting, and ability to produce & present effective business cases.
• Demonstrable inclusive, anti-racist and compassionate leadership skills, including creating psychologically safe teams, challenging discriminatory behaviour, and using data and feedback to improve fairness and belonging.

Additional

Essential

• Commitment to the Essentia Way - working together, doing it well and looking after each other.
• Commitment to Equality and Diversity for all and with a demonstrable leadership capacity in inclusion.
• Band 8a leadership expectation: evidence of leading inclusive and anti-racist practice across services/teams, taking action on inequity, and fostering allyship and psychologically safe cultures.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

200 Great Dover Street

London

SE1 4YB

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/careers/careers.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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