Compliance Officer

Job summary

Woolpit Health Centre are seeking a motivated, highly organised, and proactive compliance officer to join the team at Woolpit Health Centre in an exciting new position. This position is to work between 30 and 37.5 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

• Assist in the completion and regular review of risk assessments and safe systems of work across the practice
• Maintain and update the practice risk register, ensuring mitigation actions are clearly documented, monitored, and completed within agreed timescales
• Coordinate clinical audits and ensure findings are documented, actioned, and reviewed appropriately
• Maintain a centralised document control system to ensure policies, procedures, and compliance documentation are current and accessible
• Assist with audit coordination and policy updates
• Lead on compliance relating to water safety (Legionella), asbestos management, electrical safety, and other statutory safety domains
• Assist in the implementation and monitoring of health and safety procedures
• Conduct routine daily and weekly fire safety checks and maintain accurate records
• Schedule and coordinate health and safety risk assessments, audits and inspections
• Arrange servicing, inspection, and maintenance of clinical and non-clinical equipment, ensuring records are maintained
• Act as the primary point of contact for all maintenance matters, coordinating repairs etc

About us

We provide services to over 16,000 patients who live in a practice area of 75 square miles of rural West Suffolk, straddling the A14, between Thurston in the west, and Haughley in the east. We pride ourselves on the high standards of our care we are holders of the Royal College of General Practitioners Practice Accreditation Award, a quality mark held by only 19 practices in the UK. Our 5 GP partners and 7 non-partner GPs lead a multidisciplinary team of nurses, health care assistants, pharmacists and midwives all of whom are based in our purpose-built premises. Benefits of working for Woolpit Health Centre include:

• Attractive rates of pay with annual pay review (not agenda for change)
• Regular one-to-ones to aid good communication
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Voluntary overtime when available
• Plenty of training opportunities
• Membership of the NHS contributory pension scheme
• Free uniform
• Option of NHS discount and Blue Light Card