Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 252-6986537
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £76,412 - £87,723 per annum inclusive of allowances
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Fire & Governance
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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.
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree or demonstrable equivalent experience
- Specialist Fire Safety Courses e.g. Fire Service College or NEBOSH National Certificate in Fire Safety and Risk Management and or relevant Fire Service experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers/or relevant professional body.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse legislative requirements, including interpretation of H&S specifications to deliver a range of governance processes.
- Demonstrable knowledge of Healthcare guidance, HTM’s, HBN’s and other industry specific guidance.
- Thorough working knowledge of all current legislation, NHS guidance and advice notes.
- Professional knowledge of working in a large healthcare institution.
- Ability to make judgements and apply provisions of highly complex legislation, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 associated health and safety legislation, NHS HTM 05:01 Firecode documents and other associated fire guidance for the benefit of the Trust.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of Fire Modelling and Fire Engineering techniques.
- Knowledge of audit processes/ Firecode/ HTM and safety legislation.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of Fire safety management providing expert advice and knowledge to the Trust Board and operational staff across departmental boundaries on fire safety, fire risk management, fire legislation and codes of practice and fire safety training.
- Experience of working with Capital Projects team/contractors for new build or refurbishment projects.
- Experience of working with external bodies such as Fire and Rescue Services.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a complex clinical environment in a similar role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jeanette Batten
- Job title
- Director of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07362 393958
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