Job Title: Compliance Officer
Salary: €39k
Location: Travelling will be a large component of this role. The candidate will need a full clean driving licence in order to visit different locations.
Ref: S011690
Description of Role:
Our client is seeking an experienced Compliance Officer to carry out Internal Thematic Audits in line with Organizational Policy. To complete these Audits in line with the National Standards for Children‘s Residential Centres (2001), Child Care Regulations (1996), this role is prominently travelling from residential home to residential home.
Requirements:
* A minimum qualification to Level 7 degree in Social Care or Social Work.
* A working knowledge of the National Standards for Children‘s Residential Centres.
* Minimum of 3 years‘ experience of working within a children‘s residential environment or social work environment.
* Minimum of 1 years‘ experience in an auditing capacity.
* Highly motivated with excellent planning, organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
* Excellent IT skills.
* Ability to work independently, manage own time and schedule while travelling from location to location and adhere to deadlines.
* Applicant must have a full, clean driving license and access to personal transport.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Auditing:
* Responsible for conducting thematic audits in allocated homes in line with organisational policy, and/or requested by the Senior Compliance Manager.
* To meet with staff members to ascertain their understanding of Policies & Procedures, Statement of Purpose & Function, Model of Care and TCI guiding and underpinning practice, whether directly through interviews, or indirectly through attendance at and observations of handovers, on the floor practice with young people and with each other.
* To meet with young people, if they are willing and able, to review their placement needs, understand their experience of their placement and staff, gain an understanding of their placement goals and seek to improve the quality of their placement.
* To provide written audit reports on findings as guided by the above and report directly to the Senior Compliance Manager.
* To complete a review of the homes monthly thematic self-audits as completed by home management, reviewing quality and content of reports and identified action plans, giving feedback to allocated Regional Managers via the weekly governance report.
* Where action plans have been issued to homes, seek assurance that these actions have been completed via either requested upload of evidence or review of the Governance folder.
* Highlight to the Senior Compliance Manager any deficits in the core mandatory training of any home following an audit.
* All learnings from inspections will be shared via an organisation action plan and the compliance officer will feedback to the Senior Compliance Manager to advise that these learnings are in action across all homes.
* Review of SERG minutes/all supervisions/policy & procedures & personnel files in the homes, triangulate evidence to ensure all actions identified are complete.
* To complete a feedback meeting with the home management team and allocated Regional Manager, on completion of an annual full themed audit.
Annual Review of Compliance & Quality Improvement Plans:
* Report any areas of non-compliance as a priority to the Senior Compliance Manager.
* To support the completion of quality improvement plans and annual compliance reports alongside Home Management teams.
* To support the current systems and processes in place to influence quality improvement across the homes and enhance the care of our young people and staff members.
For more information please send your CV to Bernie in confidence through the link.
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