The Opportunity:

Chiltern Music Therapy is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented Compliance Lead to ensure that the organisation complies with relevant laws, regulations and internal policies. The Compliance Lead will play a crucial role in safeguarding the organisation's reputation and maintaining high ethical standards. This position involves monitoring and assessing compliance risks, developing compliance programmes and designing and implementing training, so that all staff can be compliant in their everyday duties.

Why Work with Chiltern Music Therapy:

At Chiltern Music Therapy we do things differently. We are an award-winning not-for-profit organisation, providing music therapy across health, education, social care and community settings in England. Our services cover the complete lifecycle, supporting premature infants through to people receiving end of life care. We believe that music therapy can be the transformative thread in everyday life.

Chiltern is employee-owned and operates under a self-managing model. We recognise the different strengths within our team and provide an environment where people can take charge of the work they do, using professional judgement and life experience, alongside peer support, in order to make informed and integrated decisions.

About you:

We are looking for someone who is:

Meticulously organised and detail-focused with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

A great communicator and listener - from / to and between practitioners, board of directors, membership rep and external orgs such as Wirehouse.

Confidence to challenge all of the above, ask questions and identify gaps and tensions

Flexible in your approach (be able to see and understand the legal frameworks and make it adaptable for the team)

An excellent project manager - you will need to oversee existing projects within data retention that involve different areas of the organisation (although you will have an external person / guide on the specifics of data retention in our sector).

Able to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams

A completer-finisher - please be aware that this role will be highly administrative at times!

Experienced in compliance, preferably in a UK non-profit or health-care related setting with a strong understanding of UK regulations in these sectors.

Salary and Hours:

1 day/8 hours per week

Hours: working within our core hours of Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm. Flexible working options are available and can be discussed. Must be available to work part of these hours on a Monday and flexibly across the week.

PAYE salary range GBP25,000-GBP27,000, pro-rata, per annum depending on experience

Fixed term contract for 12 months with the potential to extend.

Remote working from home, based in the UK. Benefits:

With our benefits there is something good for everyone. We are a progressive organisation that believes building a good team culture is not only good for everyone who works for us - but it makes a difference to how we engage with our clients too. That's why when you join Chiltern Music Therapy, you can expect to receive a wide range of impressive employee benefits including:

32 days annual leave, inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time).

A comprehensive induction.

Pension.

High street discount shopping portal.

Team socials.

Key responsibilities:

The role will have a highly internal focus, with some time allocated to external horizon scanning and stakeholders.

Inward focus:

Perform an analysis of the applicable rules for a not for profit music therapy organisation

Perform annually a risk assessment identifying the key compliance risks facing the organisation

Work closely with the team delivering or sourcing training, or training materials, to support them to be compliant in their everyday work. This will include Music Therapists and Community Musicians, and operational roles such as finance, HR and scheduling.

Help staff understand and be compliant with our policies, through training, being in regular contact on slack or phone, check-ins and innovative, educational approaches.

Regularly review policies, procedures and ways of working on health & safety, GDPR, data retention and weeding, and risk assessments.

Outward focus:

Be main point of contact for our external HR and IT partners, gaining expertise and insight on current trends / horizon scanning through their bulletins and webinars - what does Chiltern need to know?

Adapt and evolve more general learnings into Chiltern's culture, finding ways to make external changes fit the needs of the organisation.

Seek additional support and training through other channels, such as Social Enterprise UK, and local business support networks.

Perform an annual assessment of the effectiveness of Wirehouse

Awareness of, or willingness to learn about:

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) standards of practice for Music Therapists

Risks (and how to manage them) specific to Music Therapy and Community music work

The types of data we hold and the guidelines around these

How to introduce and implement organisational-wide training and updates

Data retention, weeding and GDPR framework

Compliance with ICO

You will work on duties across the broader needs of Health and Safety and Data across the organisation and will need to implement various projects internally, to ensure the below duties are met.

Role Specifics:

You will be accountable for overseeing and reviewing (with relevant members of the team) all our policies on an annual basis. There is support to help with the various policies but the role holder will be required to project manage this efficiently and on time. These include Health and Safety, Data and Cybersecurity.

For further information and job specification please visit our website.