Essentia - Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance

Essentia - Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance

DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL ASSURANCE AND COMPLIANCE

CANDIDATE BROCHURE

Director of Design & Development

CONTENTS

Introduction. ................................................ 1-2

About The Trust............................................ 3-6

About Essentia............................................. 7-8

Investing in World Class Facilities................ 9-12

The Role................................................... 13-20

Working at Essentia and GSTT.................. 21-22

Senior Leadership Team............................ 23-24

Application Process. ................................. 25-26

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for your interest in the Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance post at Essentia.

Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one the UK’s busiest and most successful foundation trusts, with a long history of clinical excellence and high quality care. Our Trust is made up of two of London’s best known teaching hospitals – St Thomas’ Hospital and Guy’s Hospital – and London’s two specialist heart and lung hospitals, Royal Brompton and Harefield. It also includes Evelina London Children’s Hospital and both adult and children’s community services in Lambeth and Southwark. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of only eight academic health sciences centres in England.

Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.

Essentia plays a crucial role on enabling the vast array of healthcare services provided by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and other partner organisations including King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Responsible for non-clinical healthcare services, Essentia designs, builds and maintains healthcare infrastructure vital to the smooth running of healthcare services, encompassing everything from construction projects and healthcare planning to facilities management, housekeeping, transport and security. We employ around 1,700 people, and our vision is to provide the best service possible within the resources available, to be the estates, facilities and capital management provider of choice in south London and beyond, and to develop innovative approaches to improve the health estate.

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Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance

The Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance will take the lead role in driving and ensuring a very high-level of technical assurance and compliance for estates, infrastructure and facilities across a portfolio including several large-scale acute hospitals sites, medical teaching facilities and a community healthcare portfolio. Key aspects of the role include leading on technical assurance and compliance across a broad portfolio spanning fire safety, asbestos, water safety and estate infrastructure as well as adherence to COSHH, HSE and PPE regulations. The postholder will lead a team spanning Risk and Governance, ISO Accreditation, Compliance and Energy management functions responsible for the design, implementation and management of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to ensure compliance with legal/national/NHS standards, best practice and other Trust-wide policies and processes. We are seeking an individual with significant experience of operating successfully in an engineering technical assurance/compliance leadership role across a large-scale, complex estate portfolio. You will take a proactive approach to leading teams to achieve results and will have a track record of driving performance improvement programmes resulting in improved levels of assurance and compliance across an estate portfolio.

The role offers the opportunity to play a crucial role in leading estates and facilities technical assurance and compliance across one of the UK’s most complex healthcare portfolios, creating an environment that in turn will make a fantastic difference to so many.

Best wishes, Alastair Gourlay, Director of Essentia

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About the Trust

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation

trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic and cardiovascular services . Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England

including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need

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Building Healthier Futures

it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. The Duchess of Cambridge became the Patron of Evelina London in 2018.

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Our Values to patients and staff drive everything we do

Our values have been developed in close collaboration with staff who strive to provide our patients with exceptional care every day.

Put patients first

Take pride in what we do

Respect others

Strive to be the best

Act with integrity

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About the Trust continued

Our year in numbers 2018-2019

218,000 emergency and urgent care attendances

More than 796,000 patient contacts in community services

93,000 inpatients

1.38 million outpatients

6,492 babies born

123,000 day cases

over £1.6 billion annual turnover

around 17,100 staff

2.6 million patient contacts

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Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. In 2019 we combined adult community services with acute medicine and therapy services to create Integrated Care, a new strategic

business unit. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of six accredited UK Academic Health Sciences Centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 17,100 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2018 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients. We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

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About

Our vision is to provide the best service possible within the resources available, to be the estates, facilities and capital management provider of choice in south London and beyond, and to develop innovative approaches to improve the health estate.

Essentia provides in-house Estates, Facilities and Capital Management for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundatioan Trust, as well as services for other local NHS providers in both the acute and community setting. The context within which Essentia works is changing, and at pace. There is an unprecedented appetite for collaboration between Trusts, within the Integrated Care System (ICS, formerly STP) and beyond, and growing interest in Essentia the organisation of choice for the successful management of high quality estates and facilities services.

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Essentia strives to be a great place to work, grow and build a career.

THE ESSENTIA WAY

THE ESSENTIA WAY IS

The Essentia way is

Looking after each other

Working together

Doing it well

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INVESTMENT IN WORLD CLASS FACILITIES

Click photo to see NHS Guy’s and St.Thomas Cancer Centre information website

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We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Most recently we have delivered the £160 million state of the art Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital.

The new Cancer Centre at Guy’s was designed by Award-winning architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and specialist healthcare architect Stantec were chosen for their innovative design based around a series of ‘villages’ that give the 14-storey building a human scale

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Looking to the future we have a once in a generation opportunity to build a platform for sustainable future healthcare and develop world-leading healthcare, Biomedical and MedTech clusters in the heart of London

New MedTech Cluster by 2040

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A Biomedical Cluster at our London Bridge site (including Guy’s Hospital) focused on advanced therapies, cellular medicine, cancer and biomedical sciences - building on the success of the Guy’s Cancer

Further capital investment in our

A MedTech Cluster at our Westminster Bridge

Centre and Guy’s Tower as centres for advanced therapies research.

community healthcare estate portfolio , thus enabling better integrated care for our communities, closer to where people live, by improving digital mobility of staff and diagnostic tools, encouraging people to manage their own health, and providing a network.

site (including St Thomas’s Hospital), building on the Trust’s existing strengths in emergency care, diagnostic imaging, paediatrics and

cardiovascular care and the University’s cardiovascular, imaging and healthcare engineering research.

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE PLANS

A c.£200m expansion of Evelina London Children’s Hospital, providing the full continuum of specialist care and delivering a comprehensive children’s hospital for London.

A partnership with Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust that will transform specialist cardiovascular care for London and the UK.

The Trust will plan and deliver an estate that will be fit for purpose for decades to come, by designing “shell and core” buildings which can adapt quickly and easily to different uses, so that we can refit them every 10-15 years, depending on our needs. This is not a one-off exercise, but a sustained strategy of investment and growth that is financially sustainable over the long-term. Healthcare is rapidly changing. In the future the treatments and technologies available to patients may be radically different. We need buildings that are designed with a degree of flexibility and future-proofing. We aim to treble the amount of space across our estate from the current 381,000 sqm to 1.1M sqm by 2050. Space not required by the Trust and King’s Health Partners will be available to research institutions and life science industry partners, including startups and SMEs. Co-location of these uses is central to the development of our MedTech and Biomedical Clusters model.

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance

Job Title Director of Technical Assurance and Compliance Responsible To Director of Performance & Improvement, Essentia Salary Band 8D

Job Summary

Reporting into the Director of Performance & Improvement, this role is key in achieving Essentia’s operational and strategic ambitions. This role is ultimately responsible for ensuring that there is an appropriate assurance framework in place to provide the Trust with assurance that Essentia’s services are being delivered in line with all statutory and mandatory requirements • Responsible for the compliance of the Trusts’ engineering and technical systems including responsibility for Fire and Asbestos, including managing the fire and asbestos management teams including maintaining fire compliance documentation and a current asbestos register. • Ensuring that the Trust has an assurance framework in place. This framework should include a full and progressive suite of reporting, supported by robust processes, that demonstrates compliance with statutory obligations, and performance against all internally set KPI’s.

• Liaising with capital projects team and engineering function in respect of the delivery of the engineering capital infrastructure projects across the Trust.

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• Provide professional engineering leadership and expertise across the Trust to other estates staff, Director’s, Senior Management of the organisation and advise external agencies where appropriate.

• The post-holder has overall responsibility and accountability for ensuring engineering maintenance and projects on the site, including contract work, is carried out to appropriate standards and specifications and in accordance with relevant NHS HTM’s etc as well as current Health and safety legislation. • Responsible for setting and reporting on performance standards in relation to maintenance compliance, managing planned maintenance and statutory compliance including fire, and developing relevant maintenance operational policies and procedures to improve compliance and assurance.

• Responsible for the management of Essentia’s risk register.

• Responsible for the development and management of the backlog maintenance plan.

• Managing carbon reduction strategies and energy performance including robust energy and utilities consumption reporting.

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THE ROLE

Duties and Responsibilities • Responsible for providing professional and organisational assurance around all areas of operational engineering and maintenance performance and compliance, both statutory and non-statutory as well as reactive.

• Responsibility for fire safety and compliance against all statutory obligations and the Trust Fire Policy. This includes the line management of the fire team.

• Responsibility for the management of the Asbestos register and the associated records, ensuring that surveys are carried out where appropriate to prevent risk to staff and contractors.

• Responsible for all water safety matters and reporting, in accordance with L8 and any other statutory requirements, to ensure that the water supply to the Trust is safe and reliable.

• Advising on COSHH, HSE and PPE regulations and assisting managers to develop effective systems for carrying out risk assessments in these specialised areas.

• Develop strategies to improve PPM and thereby reduce reactive failures and derive resulting efficiencies.

• Be responsible for the overall prioritisation and management of capital projects for plant replacement and infrastructure upgrades to effectively manage the risk associated with a £100m+ backlog maintenance plan.

• To develop the annual capital application for backlog maintenance, based on a professional and clinical assessment of risk. The quantum is between £6 and 16m pa.

• Responsible for the introduction and monitoring of management systems to control and monitor maintenance, plant and equipment necessary to meet the requirements of all current legislation.

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