Job summary
We have an exciting role working as a Clinical Auditor & Lead Educator for the Environmental Monitoring Team (EMT) within the University Hospital Southampton (UHS).
The EMT is an innovated team that is expanding to meet the continued development of the UHS site, utilising high quality auditing tools to monitor the catering and domestic services. The organisation has an outsourced contract for the supply of its patient and staff catering service along with its domestic contract for the cleaning of clinical and non-clinical areas.
The principle requirement of the role is to provide clinical support to the EMT as well as conduct performance audits across University Hospital Southampton.
The role will require a highly motivated individual who is either a registered Nurse or Allied Health professional or is working towards the completion of this. The individual will need to be able to organise as well as manage their workload in an effective manner to ensure work is completed
Main duties of the job
You can read an overview of the main duties of the role in the section below: Job Description and Main Responsibilities.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents attached
About us
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. UHS is rated 'Good' by the CQC and in the latest national NHS Staff Survey, we were in the top 10 acute trusts for staff engagement and for staff recommending the hospital as a place to work or receive care.
At UHS we are committed to providing a flexible working environment. We believe that it benefits everyone if we achieve a positive work-life balance. Whether you are balancing family, study or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
We're proud to have been voted in the Top Five acute Trusts for our commitment to supporting our staff to achieve work-life balance.
UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme and life insurance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Ensure high quality collection, analyse and reporting of cleaning and catering performance data to enable reporting Trust wide and externally.
- Undertake quality audits
- Represent the EMT operations manager at meetings as required.
- Educate clinical staff on responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a high standard of Environmental cleanliness in accordance with National Cleaning Specifications.
- Educate clinical staff on Trust Food Hygiene Policy and support the EMT in producing quality audit data on the contractual performance KPIs and the Trust nutritional standards.
- Educate contractual colleagues on relevant clinical knowledge relating to Food Hygiene procedures and National Cleaning Specifications.
Additional Information
Interviews will be held on the 31st July 2023.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Ensure high quality collection, analyse and reporting of cleaning and catering performance data to enable reporting Trust wide and externally.
- Undertake quality audits
- Represent the EMT operations manager at meetings as required.
- Educate clinical staff on responsibility for ensuring the delivery of a high standard of Environmental cleanliness in accordance with National Cleaning Specifications.
- Educate clinical staff on Trust Food Hygiene Policy and support the EMT in producing quality audit data on the contractual performance KPIs and the Trust nutritional standards.
- Educate contractual colleagues on relevant clinical knowledge relating to Food Hygiene procedures and National Cleaning Specifications.
Additional Information
Interviews will be held on the 31st July 2023.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health professional
- Working towards completion of Nursing Degree or Allied Health professional qualification or able to demonstrate clearly equivalent level of theoretical and practical knowledge
- Knowledge of audit processes, procedures, methodologies plus statistical techniques, acquired through training
- Knowledge of analysing and interpretation of audit results
- Microsoft Office Skills
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification or evidence of Informal / formal teaching
- ILS trained
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing training to clinical staff based on findings / learnings from audit data
Experience
Essential
- Experience of promoting good practice of following policies as well as supporting with the implementation of new policies
- Evidence of communicating data analysis and interpretation to clinical staff, and advising on appropriate techniques
- Evidence of developing spreadsheet and other tools for audit approaches
Desirable
- Experience of implementing procedures and policies linked to environmental cleanliness, infection prevention or food hygiene
Special requirements
Essential
- Flexibility with working pattern
Values
Essential
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Patients First
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Always Improving
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Working Together
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health professional
- Working towards completion of Nursing Degree or Allied Health professional qualification or able to demonstrate clearly equivalent level of theoretical and practical knowledge
- Knowledge of audit processes, procedures, methodologies plus statistical techniques, acquired through training
- Knowledge of analysing and interpretation of audit results
- Microsoft Office Skills
Desirable
- Teaching Qualification or evidence of Informal / formal teaching
- ILS trained
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in providing training to clinical staff based on findings / learnings from audit data
Experience
Essential
- Experience of promoting good practice of following policies as well as supporting with the implementation of new policies
- Evidence of communicating data analysis and interpretation to clinical staff, and advising on appropriate techniques
- Evidence of developing spreadsheet and other tools for audit approaches
Desirable
- Experience of implementing procedures and policies linked to environmental cleanliness, infection prevention or food hygiene
Special requirements
Essential
- Flexibility with working pattern
Values
Essential
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Patients First
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Always Improving
- Able to demonstrate behaviours that meet the Trust Values Working Together
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
