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Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Nexus House Town CRAWLEY Salary £64,455 - £74,896 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 03 / 08 / 2025 23 : 59

Head of Compliance

NHS AfC : Band 8b

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.

Job overview

The Head of Compliance is responsible for overseeing compliance within the Trust, ensuring compliance with all legislation, regulatory requirements, policies, procedures and Fundamentals of Care.

As the Compliance leader and subject matter expert, the postholder is responsible for interpreting national guidance, establishing standards and implementing policies and procedures to ensure that the compliance framework and programmes throughout the Trust are effective and efficient in identifying, preventing, detecting and correcting non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations, to assure the Board that quality, safety and risk are proactively managed.

The postholder will be the relationship manager with all regulators, responsible for the Trust response pre-inspections, at times of inspections and throughout the follow up period.

Main duties of the job

• To provide expert advice around all external quality and assurance frameworks.
• To lead on the development and on-going improvement of the compliance system across the trust, ensuring that all divisions and directorate have systems and processes in place to evidence they are providing safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led services. Constantly review relevant standards and ensure the Trust is compliant with national directives and statutory obligations.
• Develop an annual compliance work plan that reflects the complex nature of the Trust’s activities and prioritises high risk areas.
• To ensure there are adequate controls in place to manage compliance risks and recommend actions needed to address gaps in control.
• To ensure that available performance data / information is incorporated within the overall assurance systems for the prevention, containment and control of compliance risks.
• To support planning for external reviews and visits by regulatory bodies, including providing briefings for Trust Board and other committees, Directors and other Senior Managers as required.

Working for our organisation

• Option to join NHS pension scheme
• A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
• Access to occupational health and counselling services.
• Back up buddy App
• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.

Other than in exceptional circumstances, the starting salary for staff new to the NHS will be the bottom point of the band to which they have been appointed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached JD and Person Specification. For an informal discussion regarding this position please contact Margaret Dalziel, Chief Nurse at : Margaret.dalziel@secamb.nhs.uk

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent

Training

• Understanding of the impact of regulatory frameworks and statutory regulations and how that affects the way an organisation functions
• Formal Project or Programme Management training (PRINCE2 / MSP or equivalent)

Knowledge

• Knowledge of national governance agenda, regulatory framework and best practice.

Experience

• Current NHS or transferable experience
• Experience in quality compliance, information governance and HSE compliance
• Experience of working with executive teams and Boards, although not necessarily as an executive

Skills

• Ability to think and plan strategically, tactically and creatively focused on adding value to the organisation and making real lasting change
• Committed people person; empowering, enabling, motivating and developing others.
• Able to handle complex and occasionally distressing situations, such as reporting on patient safety concerns or systemic failures, with a need to manage emotional responses while maintaining professional integrity and objectivity

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent / unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.

We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact recruitment@secamb.nhs.uk stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.

Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicatedSection 2 page on The Zon e .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Name Jo Turner Job title Deputy Chief Nursing Officer Email address Joanne.turner@secamb.nhs.uk Telephone number 07341 049411 Additional information

Jane Spencer, Business Support Manager at : Jane.spencer@secamb.nhs.uk

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