Facilities Monitoring and Compliance Officer

Job summary

Part time 30 hours per week

The purpose of the job is to monitor, audit and report the facilities services'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 failurefor rectification.

Main duties of the job

o 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.o To complete a report following each audit.o To ensure all areas for monitoring are carried out within the timescale required.o To liaise with Site Leads, clinical leads and estates and facilities colleagues to ensure that all failures are rectified.o To manage all actions following the audits by creating, distributing and managing all outstanding, and escalating any issues through the correct escalation process.o To submit a monthly assurance report for inclusion and discussion at the IPC Committee.o To manage and plan diary to audit all sites alongside site and estates representatives within deadlines.o To keep the star rating posters etc. up-to-date at each site/ward.o To ensure any changes are updated on the auditing tools.

About us

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.