Are you passionate about quality, compliance and driving continuous improvement in care services? Join Elysium Healthcare as a Regional Audit & Compliance Officer and help ensure our Learning Disability and Autism Services continue to deliver safe, effective and high-quality care.
In this influential role, you will be part of the Governance & Quality team, providing expert support to Registered Managers across the region to achieve compliance targets and maintain excellence across quality dashboards, audits and quality accounts. Working closely with operational leaders, you will help ensure services meet statutory and regulatory requirements, internal policies and quality standards while promoting a culture of continuous improvement.
You will coordinate and support internal audit programmes, monitor compliance performance, analyse quality data and identify opportunities for improvement across services. Through your insight and guidance, you will help services understand performance trends, address areas of concern and implement effective action plans that drive positive outcomes for service users.
As a key member of the Governance & Quality function, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of robust compliance systems, supporting services to prepare for regulatory inspections and ensuring governance processes are embedded effectively. You will build strong relationships with managers and stakeholders, providing advice, support and challenge to help maintain the highest standards of care and service delivery.
Key responsibilities:
Audit & Assurance
- Review the Quality Account weekly to identify Amber and Red areas and alert Registered Managers to these.
- Review service dashboards daily and alert Registered Managers to areas of non-compliance or where they are about to become non-compliant.
- Formulate action plans with Registered Manager to address areas of non-compliance in Quality Account and dashboards, to review these at a minimum of monthly with Registered Manager to monitor progress.
- Managing the audit schedule to ensure all services compete audits within agreed timescales as per the annual corporate and local schedules.
- Plan, coordinate and conduct internal compliance audits across the region.
- Produce detailed audit reports with findings, recommendations and action plans.
Risk & Governance
- Prepare monthly progress reports on Quality Account and Audit compliance for Local Governance meetings across LD&A services.
- Participate in Regional Clinical Governance meetings and provide compliance related reports.
- Monitor trends and provide recommendations for service improvement.
Quality Improvement
- Analyse audit outcomes and compliance data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Assist in preparations for regulatory inspections and external audits.
Training & Support
- Provide guidance and support to managers and staff regarding compliance requirements.
- Promote a culture of accountability, quality and continuous improvement.
Reporting
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual compliance reports.
- Present audit findings and compliance metrics to individual services and overviews of the region to the Regional SMT.
- Liaise with IM team to address any system errors to correct Dashboard and Quality Account data errors.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
Knowledge and Skills
- Computer literate with demonstrable knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel etc)
- Excellent telephone and written communication skills as well as a motivated team player.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to communicate across a range of disciplines with people from a range of backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Able to prioritise and work on own initiative to specific deadlines.
- Able to complete administrative tasks to a good standard
- Able to communicate with service users, visitors and staff at all levels
- Calm under pressure in high-stress or emotionally charged environments.
Experience
- With audit and compliance functions
- With conducting audits (D)
- Report writing (D)
- Producing action plans
- Experience of using data bases and in extracting information from data sets / performance dashboards
- Experience of an audit & compliance role or transferable skills
- Experience of collecting data and entering data within required database formats
What You’ll Get
At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:
- Annual salary of £35,000
- The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) – plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
- Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
- Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
- Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
- Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
- Stream – instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
- 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
- Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
Pension contribution, to help secure your future
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About us:
Elysium Health care has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure
