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The post holder will support the team to accurately monitor cleanliness in line with the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness, via audit, analyse results, identify trends, and ensure remedial actions are taken to improve standards in a timely manner. Coordinate, administer and review the NHS National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness audit . Develop, update, and review the audits schedule in line with the functional risk factor for each area. Plans time effectively to ensure audits are completed in line with schedule. Develop improvement plans and ensures completion where required. The role involves direct service user communication and interaction, working in challenging environments: including forensic, older people and adult mental health wards. The post holder may be subject to unpleasant working conditions whilst completing audits. Liaise with Service Managers, Ward Managers and Practice Managers and discuss audit outcomes and improvements where required. Provide advice, guidance and support and is responsible for communicating variations in compliance. Participate in a reciprocal audit verification programme with other Trusts. Review and update the auditing programme software and associated hardware with the licensee, ensuring systems are maintained to ensure they are recording relevant information. Assist in the production of the mandatory quarterly/annual reports in line with National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness 2021. Lead on resolving operational performance issues that that have been highlighted by the audits. Training To participate in delivering assurance of continuous improvement initiatives by assisting in developing, implementing, and supervising staff training programme to all Hotel Services staff. Coordinate training requirements by organising administration frameworks and staff training programmes to ensure continuous improvement initiatives. Coordinate and complete staff training to ensure compliance with Trust and Hotel Services mandatory training targets across the Hotel Services team. This will include COSHH and SSOW compliance. Update training matrices ensuring departmental records reflect training needs accurately to provide assurance of mandatory training in line with Trust and department requirements. Provides train the trainer sessions and ensures continued competency. Contribute to monthly meetings, effectively communicating team training requirement to Coordinators, Supervisors and Housekeepers. Prepares training meeting information. Assist administration for training on the National Cleanliness Standards 2021 and apprenticeships for staff. Develop, coordinate, and provide on job training for the NHS Cleaning Operating Procedures training programme. To mentor and coach team Supervisors and staff to help them improve their skills and overarching service performance. Coordinate Hotel Services appraisal programme and develop training requirements action plan.

Principles Responsibilities Produces, agrees, and oversees delivery of risk-based HQT reviews across all MIAAs clients that are designed to produce sufficient assurances to fulfil the requirements of the Head of Internal Audit Opinion on the effectiveness of internal control. Manages the planning, conduct, output, and opinions for all HQT audit work across all MIAA clients within agreed deadlines, budgets, and quality standards. Operates as budget holder for allocated reviews/plans i.e., a discrete set of services, requiring the planning and organizing of complex activities and programmes toensure income is recovered, costs contained, and outputs delivered. Often these budgeted plans need to be adjusted on an ongoing basis for reporting to Audit Committees as priorities shift. Manages and develops the key relationships with MIAA clients, particularly at Director of Nursing and Medical Director level. Provides the principal advice to MIAA clients on HQT review findings and their potential impact on Annual Governance Statement preparation and related governance and risk management matters. Responsibility for ensuring allocated HQT reviews are incorporated into the overall planning of resources and commitments for the function. Plans and organises the work schedule for allocated reviews to ensure weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual timetables are delivered particularly regarding Audit Committee deadlines. Personally, conducts a range of highly complex audits for reporting to senior management and the Audit Committee. These will routinely be complicated and multi-layered where sensitive judgements need to be framed in situations where solutions are not clear. Conducts complex research on behalf of the team and the Agency to develop and pilot approaches to emerging auditable areas. Makes recommendations as appropriate often involving significant proposed changes to working practices and procedures following policy implementation across multiple areas and NHS organisations. These routinely will involve contributing to service redesign and providing benchmarking information. Undertakes complex systems reviews that conclude upon financial control, physical security of cash and the safeguarding of assets. Responds to, and often anticipates, queries from clients, which may be of a highly sensitive and highly confidential nature, and investigates and reports as necessary to the satisfaction of the client. These queries may relate to complex issues requiring a detailed understanding of complex client risks, NHS systems and existing guidance. This will include advice, information, and guidance for direct use by patients, relatives, or carers. Secures added value additional consultancy work which enhances the profile and capability of the Agency. Participates in preparation and delivery of presentations for tendered internal audit contracts. Manages the work of Delivery Managers, Principal Auditors and Auditors within the function. On occasions, deputises for the Head of R&D, QA & Professional Standards . Builds effective client relationships across the functions clients. Adheres and contributes to the continuous improvement philosophy to ensure we continue to provide a valuable service focused upon clients needs.