Associate Director of Fire & Governance

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

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Job summary

The Associate Director of Governance and Fire is a key member of the Directorate, with responsibility for devising, implementing and then auditing governance to ensure the department is compliant with all legislative requirements across are disciplines within Estates, Facilities and Project delivery. This role as the Fire Safety Advisor acts as a focus for all fire safety matters in the organisation with accountability for fire safety matters reporting up to the Director of Estates and Facilities Management (Director with fire safety responsibility). This role is the expert in this discipline.

This role will lead and manage, strategically and operationally on business support for the department, ensuring the department is compliant with both external and internal governance and legal obligations. This will include:

Statutory compliance assurance
Quality assurance
Audit
Internal governance
Risk management

Main duties of the job

The Associate Director of Governance and Fire will take specific delegated responsibility for the implementation, monitoring and delivery of key quality and performance standards for all functions within the department.

The role will be instrumental in devising and implementing both recording and monitoring systems to ensure that the Trust is compliant with all relevant statutory and mandatory standards, together with relevant NHS and Trust policies, procedures and guidance in particular Department of Health guidance for those HTM/HBNs applicable to the department. This will involve engagement with specialists within the department and external bodies including other Trusts.

This role is the departmental expert for governance and fire safety and therefore provides advice to both the Director of Estates and Exec team.

About us

We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer. We strive to employ people who reflect the communities we serve, and aim to create an inclusive culture where everyone can reach their full potential. Whatever your race, ethnicity, belief, generation, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or experience, you'll appreciate the opportunities we give you to work in an inclusive atmosphere. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build on the progress we've achieved to make our Trust diverse and the best place to work. We celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that help us overcome challenges and embrace new possibilities. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant Pledge and have a commitment to the Armed Forces Community.

We are dedicated to using our Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach as our shared organisation model of change to enhance our services and ensure excellence in patient care.

If you are considering applying for a role, please be aware that as an NHS Employee you may have contact with vulnerable service users. We strongly encourage that all our staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 and are vaccinated annually against Flu, in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and patients. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.

Date posted

12 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£76,412 to £87,723 a year per annum inclusive of allowances

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

252-6986537

Job locations

Darent Valley Hospital

Darenth Wood Road

Dartford

DA2 8DA

Job description

Job responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities

Directorate Governance

Guide and advise managers and Associate Directors within the department on the requirements for measuring and implementing tools to measure performance and compliance.

Responsible for ensuring each service area reviews, updates and implements policies, procedures and risk assessments relevant to the service and in line with departmental standards/legislative requirements.

Ensure that strategies, operating policies and procedures comply with legal requirements, NHS protocols/codes of practice and Trust corporate policies (HTM, HBN etc).

Work at a system level with the ICS/B and other Trusts to develop and devise system wide governance and management tools, to deliver a standard level of transparency to NHSe/i on compliance.

Lead on the monitoring, development and delivery of policies as appropriate to ensure the Trust has full coverage and develop new policies as required.

Work with service leads to identify gaps in governance and manage plans to ensure continuous improvement is in place to conclude outstanding items.

Devise reporting mechanisms to ensure all areas of the department can accurate report on both compliances and non-compliances. These mechanisms should be digitalised where possible.

Lead in the Care Quality Commission assurance process for the outcomes that relate to the department and to provide evidence in relation to the outcome standards.

Maintain the departmental risk register, ensuring it is truly reflective of departmental risks.

Undertake investigations of adverse events, and carryout root causes analysis with relevant managers and making recommendations to prevent future incidents,

Responsible for driving change within the department to ensure the service is fully compliant with regulation, legislation and guidance by implementing systems and process to monitor and measure compliance and performance.

Identify, with the service lead, what regulations and guidance each service should be compliant with, then agree the methodology for recording compliance with and devise the reporting thereof.

Implement a timetable for reporting throughout the department, to ensure reports are issued in a timely fashion.

Oversee the timely delivery of data that has to be submitted to external bodies such as ERIC, PAM etc, co-ordinating personnel within the department to deliver accurately and on time.

Please see attached job description for further information.