Associate Director of Hard Facilities Management and Compliance

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Southampton is seeking an Associate Director of Hard Facilities Management and Compliance. This senior role involves overseeing maintenance, compliance, and risk management of Trust buildings and assets. The successful candidate will lead both planned and reactive maintenance, ensure compliance with all regulations, and manage budget responsibilities. The position requires a high level of expertise in estates management and leadership skills. A competitive salary package is offered.

Qualifications

• Educated to masters level or equivalent experience in a relevant specialist area.
• Post-graduate degree or suitable equivalent experience.
• In-depth experience working in a large, complex organisation, preferably in an NHS healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the compliance framework for Estate Services.
• Produce timely, accurate reports for the Trust’s committees.
• Manage own work schedule efficiently, prioritising complex activities.

Skills

Performance and delivery management

Project management

Advanced communication skills

Budget management

Compliance management

Education

First Level Degree

Prince 2 Practitioner

Tools

Advanced Excel

Complex IT packages

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Director of Hard Facilities Management and Compliance

The closing date is 28 December 2025

We are recruiting for an Associate Director of Hard Facilities Management and Compliance to join our team at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This senior estates management role comprises all aspects of the Hard Facilities Management FM portfolio. You will be responsible for all areas of ongoing maintenance and future resilience of Trust buildings and related fixed assets.

We are looking for someone to lead on both planned and reactive maintenance activities and related in‑house outsourced and contracted workforce as well as being the senior lead for all technical and compliance related aspects of the Trust’s built environment and physical infrastructure.

You will manage Estate Services activities to ensure compliance with all external assessments, including Risk Management, Fire Safety, Estate Services Health and Safety, Care Quality Commission, Premises Assurance Model, Equality Diversity PLACE Mandatory and Statutory legislation and others as directed. You will also be responsible for establishing control systems and processes that ensure the Trust fulfils its statutory duties for reporting across the range of issues relating to Estate Services and for maintaining the local risk register and backlog maintenance records.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the development of the compliance framework for the Estate Services department.
• Regularly report to internal and external groups, committees and forums.
• Responsible for the appointment of Authorised Engineers (AE) and Authorised Persons (AP).
• Ensure a system is in place to actively monitor risks relating to Estate hard FM Services.
• Manage own work schedule efficiently, prioritising complex activities.
• Produce timely, meaningful, accurate and high‑quality reports for the Trust’s various committees.
• Deliver improved evidenced compliance and ensure relevant Estate Services policies are fit for purpose.
• Hold budget responsibility for the Hard FM team.
• Produce and deliver an Estates Decarbonisation Plan for all infrastructure and fixed assets in line with Trust Green Plan and National Net Zero directives.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute‑level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Person Specification

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone. If, as a potential candidate, you are concerned that a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability, please initially contact the Trust’s Recruitment team – detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications

• First Level Degree, formally recognised management qualification. Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a relevant specialist area. Post‑graduate degree or suitable equivalent experience.
• Prince 2 Practitioner, Nebosh General Certificate, professional registration with an industry‑related body (e.g. IHEEM, HEFMA, RICS).

Experience

• In‑depth experience of performance and delivery management.
• Knowledge of workforce re‑design, acquired through training and experience to Masters of equivalent.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
• Leading project management.
• Use of complex IT packages including databases, advanced Excel.
• Presentation skills including planning and delivery using all media.
• In‑depth experience working at senior management level in a large, complex organisation, preferably in an NHS healthcare environment.
• Experience of compliance management and managing associated risks.
• Awareness of estates‑related support systems.
• Experience of project management.
• Experience of working in a changing environment.
• Budget management experience.
• Line management experience.
• Advanced communication skills, written and verbal.
• Advanced report writing.
• Advanced IT skills.
• Project management time planning.
• Team and individual performance management.
• Advanced analytical skills of data and reporting on findings.
• Influencing and negotiation skills.
• Planning and organisational coaching skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to deal with conflicting priorities.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Confidence in own decision making.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Using own judgement skills.
• Complex problem‑solving skills.
• Understanding of statutory compliance and risk.
• Knowledge and understanding of estates‑related data, e.g. CAD, six‑facet surveys.
• Understanding of the Data Protection Act.
• Understanding of H&S procedures.
• Understanding of personal health and safety responsibilities.
• Understanding of the Freedom of Information Act.
• Understanding of controls, assurance and risk management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£76,965 to £88,682 a year based on full‑time hours.