Estates Compliance & PFI Transition Manager
2 days ago
London
Job overviewThe Estates Compliance & PFI Transition Manager is a senior specialist role within the Estates & Facilities Directorate. The postholder provides professional leadership across statutory engineering compliance, regulatory governance, and PFI contract transition activities, ensuring that the Trust maintains a safe, resilient, and fully compliant built environment. The role leads the Trust’s PFI transition programme, ensuring all obligations, lifecycle works, asset condition, documentation, certifications and legal requirements associated with contract expiry are delivered in line with NHS, statutory, and contractual standards. Alongside this, the postholder provides senior oversight of estates statutory compliance, HTM governance, audit assurance, PAM/ERIC data quality, and compliance risk management across the Trust. The postholder supports the Associate Director of Estates and collaborates with clinical, operational, commercial and technical teams to ensure compliance excellence and a smooth, safe, and well‑managed transition away from PFI arrangementsMain duties of the job· Provide Trust‑wide leadership for statutory and regulatory engineering compliance, including policy development, implementation and continuous improvement across multiple services.· Design and lead Trust‑wide and cross‑partner R&D and evaluation programmes that create new methodologies, metrics and evidence to inform Board‑level policy, risk dashboards and PFI handback readiness; translate findings into organisation‑wide policy changes and engineering governance improvements.· Develop research‑driven PFI transition frameworks, including the design, piloting and validation of new assurance methods, lifecycle validation tools and evidence standards; publish and embed the resulting methodologies across the Trust and with ICS partners.· Act as principal technical and policy representative with SPV partners, funders, regulators, ICS/NHSE, contributing to system‑level frameworks relevant to PFI transition and estates compliance.Working for our organisationOur Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5m, providing full clinical services including maternity, A&E and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health care. The CQC rates us Good in safety, effectiveness, care and responsiveness, and Outstanding in leadership and resource use.We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Mid.We are delivering sustainable healthcare through our Green Plan. In line with Greener NHS ambitions, we aim for net zero carbon emissions by 2045. Achieving this requires collective effort. We encourage staff to reduce their impact on carbon, waste and pollution wherever possible. Every action counts to create a healthier, more sustainable future.We are committed to equal opportunities and believe diversity drives innovation and excellence. We welcome applications from the global majority, veterans and underrepresented communities, valuing the perspectives they bring.If you haven’t heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probation.Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.Detailed job description and main responsibilities· Maintain safe systems, governance structures, and risk frameworks that ensure robust compliance and a safe clinical environment.· Establish research‑derived evidence standards and validation protocols for compliance and PFI handback, including new data models, measurement criteria and evaluation techniques adopted by Estates & Facilities and partners.· Create and oversee new audit/assurance research methods (e.g., risk‑weighted sampling, predictive defect analytics), evaluate their effectiveness, and standardise successful approaches into Trust‑wide procedures; disseminate learning internally and with partners.· Ensure all information, documentation, and evidence relevant to compliance and PFI transition is accurate, validated, and audit‑ready; establish research‑derived evidence standards and validation protocols for compliance and handback.· Coordinate external and internal assurance (e.g., IPA, regulatory and contract audits); co‑develop and trial novel IPA methodologies with external partners, adopting superior approaches through Trust policies.Person specificationEducationEssential criteria- Master’s Degree (or equivalent qualification or experience) in Hard FM, Estates Management, Engineering, or ComplianceDesirable criteria- City & Guilds or equivalent qualification in Inspection & Testing 2391 or 2394/5ExperienceEssential criteria- Significant NHS estates compliance management experienceDesirable criteria- Knowledge and experience of CAFM software e.g Maximo, MRI or IDOXImportant- The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.- Please check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.- If you have not heard from us within 3 weeks after the closing date, we regret that this usually means your application was not successful.- In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.- During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.- Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.