Estates Compliance Manager

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service organization in the UK seeks an Estates & Facilities Compliance Manager to oversee compliance with health regulations. This role involves supporting audits, policy development, and acting as Fire Safety Manager. Candidates should possess an engineering degree and have significant experience in compliance management within the NHS or similar environments. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential, along with the ability to produce detailed performance reports.

Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering discipline or relevant professional qualification.
• Experience in conducting complex audits and familiarity with health estate regulations.
• Ability to produce high-quality performance reports.

Responsibilities

• Support and advise on estates compliance matters.
• Act as Fire Safety Manager and oversee compliance disciplines.
• Prepare and review policies and procedures.

Skills

Ability to produce accurate management performance reports

Excellent organisational skills

Ability to communicate complex information

Multi-tasking across technical situations

Professional advice in technical disputes

Education

Degree in engineering or professional qualification

Job description

The Estates & Facilities (EFM) Compliance Manager will support the Associate Director of Estates on all matters relating to Estates compliance to establish and implement quality control measures and monitoring to demonstrate our compliance to HTMs, HBNs, Premises Assurance Model (PAM), the Health and Safety at Work Act and ensure all appropriate remedial tasks are tracked and recorded.

*Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

You will provide specialist advice on a whole range of estates and technical issues, providing specialist expert knowledge on compliance, developing data capture and delivering reporting to Senior Managers, Working Groups, Committees and national returns such as the Estates Return Information Collection (ERIC) and PAM.

To be the appointed Fire Safety Manager and specialist Responsible Person for Estates Compliance disciplines such as Mechanical, Electrical, Fire or Building services.

You will support the collection and of an asset base for all sites and work in conjunction with the Trusts nominated Trust Estate Maintainer to ensure their CAFM system is updated, review and support the compiling the Preventative Maintenance Schedule.

You will work with the Trusts Appointed Authorising Engineers, support the generation of Risk Assessments for Estates related works and review RAMS for additional and capital works.

You will be responsible for writing and reviewing Estates policies and procedures and standing operational procedures. They will work with both the Health & Safety Manager and Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR) Manager to ensure these remain compliant and in-date.

The role requires the production of comprehensive reports for communication to all levels within the Trust, including Executive Committees. These reports will cover compliance, technical investigations, incidents, and the analysis of complex safety issues

About us

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Job responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Degree in an engineering discipline (electrical, mechanical, building services etc) OR Professional Qualification/ Membership of an appropriate professional organisation. Professional knowledge plus additional specialist, management knowledge acquired through training and experience to Degree level equivalent. Specialist - City & Guilds / HNC /Accreditation for Estates H&S, Fire & HTM.

Experience

• Experience of conducting complex audits using research methodology such as Fire Safety management, Estates condition surveys, legionella and asbestos surveys
• Estates Services experience in the NHS or within a multi-disciplinary organisation
• Understanding of current legislation relating to Health Estate regulations

Knowledge & Skills

• Ability to produce accurate, high quality management performance reports and complex documents, requiring attention to detail at all times.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise own and team workloads to meet changing demands.
• Ability to communicate highly complex or highly sensitive information to deliver appropriate performance levels from staff / contractors.
• To be able to multi-task and deal with complex situations of a technical nature across a broad spectrum of plant and equipment
• Can provide professional advice in areas where expert opinion differs.
• Knowledge and understanding of NHS Policy and technical guidance, ability to interpret this to implement across the Trust

Other

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

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.