Water Contract Manager

Job overview

The role is a crucial post in ensuring that GSTT is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all water contract management services across a complex and multi-site organisation. The role will provide effective compliance, and performance services for Essentia Directorate, setting and supporting the performance measurement agenda, ensuring the compliance needs of, statutory and mandatory requirements etc. are measured and met to agreed deadlines.

Main duties of the job

• Be one of the Trust’s leads for water contract management providing professional advice to the Director on the contract performance aligned to current legislation
• Be one of the Trust Authorised Persons (APs) for water safety
• Be responsible for communicating complex and sensitive or contentious service-related information to GSTT contractors
• Lead the implementation of a water strategy, as part of the overall compliance and assurance hard services strategy, (aligned to GSTT strategy to 2030) implementation, to improve compliance and assurance performance across all GSTT sites
• To continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for patients and staff. This may require innovative and new ways of delivering services which may conflict with traditional thinking and opinions
• Pro-actively monitors metrics and identifying trend for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance the GSTT contract performance
• Acts as emergency manager during major incident for recovery planning purposes
• Lead the Contractor team and self by example modelling the Trust values and behaviours, ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion objectives of the trust are championed, supported and implemented

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.