Compliance Partner FTC - 31st March

The role of the Compliance Partner is to work in collaboration with the Recruitment & Compliance Partners, as well as the wider People Team, to provide an effective and streamlined compliance and recruitment service, ensuring that our practices and processes are consistent and comply with regulatory requirements.  

You will take the lead in developing and implementing compliance strategies, driving proactive and streamlined approaches that meet regulatory requirements across permanent, bank, and temporary workers, as well as volunteers and Trustees. Your work will ensure compliance with all regulatory obligations, safeguarding the children and young people in our care, and contribute to the overall Ofsted Care and CQC ratings.

This role is not open to sponsorship.

Staff benefits include shuttle bus, and more… Read more below.

Role Requirements

• Supervise the on-boarding and compliance process for all types of staff and temporary workers, as well as volunteers, including Trustees.
• Lead on core administrative services including issuing contracts and setting up new starters on HR and Payroll systems.
• Oversee and maintain recruitment records for all types of staff, temporary workers and volunteers (including Trustees), ensuring they are complete, accurate, and compliant with organisational and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and analyse data to produce accurate compliance reports, track KPIs to measure the impact of changes, and communicate findings and recommendations to key stakeholders.
• Lead regular personnel file reviews/audits for all new starters, and where relevant, escalate non-compliance issues to relevant Stakeholders.
• Ensure that the Recruitment & Compliance Team is inspection ready at all times and that recruitment and compliance practices meet the required regulatory standards and safeguard the children and young people we care for.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employment law and regulatory requirements, promptly communicating changes and providing briefings to the wider team as needed.
• Make informed day-to-day decisions within the scope of your knowledge and competence, while planning your own workload to deliver on key priorities.
• Build strong internal and external relationships and provide an added value service, to all staff and external partners/ customers.
• Provide line management and supervision of the Recruitment & Compliance Officers, coordinating daily tasks and work programmes to ensure effective team performance.
• Provide training to junior members of staff across the wider People Team to support their development and growth and growing a culture of curiosity in relation to compliance.
• Assist in the streamlining and automation of processes to improve operational efficiency.
• It is envisaged that around 20% of the role will be recruitment focussed and 80% compliance focused
• Oversee and continuously improve the on-boarding and compliance process for staff, temporary workers, volunteers, and Trustees, ensuring timely completion of contracts, pre-employment checks and HR/payroll system setup for new starters.
• Act as the owner of the Compliance Manuals, ensuring all process and procedure changes are accurately captured and reflected in the Safer Recruitment Policy during its annual update.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Access Onboarding and Better Impact, for the team and broader organisation.
• Ensure HR systems and trackers are accurately maintained, implementing quality assurance measures to uphold data integrity.
• Monitor compliance of all staff, temporary worker and volunteer files, including Right to Work and professional registrations.

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Recruitment & Compliance Team, on 01737 365 880 or email: recruitment@thechildrenstrust.org.uk

For more information, a copy of the candidate briefing pack and application form please click here.

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Terms and Conditions

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process. 

About Us

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.  Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected.  The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.