Estates Compliance Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading the management of Estates compliance within a multi-disciplinary team, reporting to the Associate Director of Estates. The post holder will ensure adherence to healthcare design standards, construction legislation, and NHS specific requirements. Key responsibilities include managing compliance meetings, maintaining risk registers, and ensuring staff competency and training are up-to-date. The role requires specialist knowledge in estates matters and strong communication skills to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
Essential criteria
- Educated to HNC or Degree level qualification or equivalent experience relating to an engineering or Building Services discipline.
- Significant post qualification experience acquired through training, courses and experience.
- Experience of Risk Management in a hospital environment
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional body such as CIBSE, IHEEM, BIFM etc.
- PRINCE 2 or equivalent project management qualification.
- IOSH/NEBOSH health and safety certificate
- HSG 274 Water Safety and the control of Legionella bacteria.
- Experience in managing revenue and capital budgets and compliance.
- Experience and knowledge
- Specialist knowledge acquired through courses and experience
- Experience with liaising and negotiating with external stakeholders and outside bodies
- In depth knowledge of Building, CDM, CAR regulations and DOH guidance documents
- Experience in managing safe systems of works.
- Experience of providing advice on Estates matters, in accordance with policy and statutory requirements.
- Knowledge of public body sustainability and environmental legislation and national requirements.
- Working in a supervisory/managerial role within an Estates function.
- In depth knowledge of the RIBA stages of work
- Experience of Government Soft Landings (GSL).
- Operating within SBS and NHS Frameworks.
- Skills & ability
- Excellent and demonstrable leadership skills
- Analytical and judgement skills to analyse data and report on project outcomes.
- Ability to motivate and influence staff
- Develop and maintain a compliance dashboard including Directly Employed Labour (DEL) and contractor's competency.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal individually and to groups.
- Understanding of risk management
- Knowledge of NHS Policies, procedures and structures.
- Proficient with AutoCAD 2D
- Experience in Project Management and handling multiple contracts simultaneously.
- Other role specific requirements
- Keyboard skills
- Site visits to all trust properties
- Good concentration for paperwork
- Good communication skills both verbal and written to all levels of the organisation
- Training and qualifications
- Educated to HNC or Degree level qualification or equivalent experience relating to an engineering or Building Services discipline.
- Significant post qualification experience acquired through training, courses and experience.
- Experience of Risk Management in a hospital environment
- Member of professional body such as CIBSE, IHEEM, BIFM etc.
- PRINCE 2 or equivalent project management qualification.
- IOSH/NEBOSH health and safety certificate
- HSG 274 Water Safety and the control of Legionella bacteria.
- Experience in managing revenue and capital budgets and compliance.
- Experience and knowledge
- Specialist knowledge acquired through courses and experience
- Experience with liaising and negotiating with external stakeholders and outside bodies
- In depth knowledge of Building, CDM, CAR regulations and DOH guidance documents
- Experience in managing safe systems of works.
- Experience of providing advice on Estates matters, in accordance with policy and statutory requirements.
- Knowledge of public body sustainability and environmental legislation and national requirements.
- Working in a supervisory/managerial role within an Estates function.
- In depth knowledge of the RIBA stages of work
- Experience of Government Soft Landings (GSL).
- Operating within SBS and NHS Frameworks.
- Skills & ability
- Excellent and demonstrable leadership skills
- Analytical and judgement skills to analyse data and report on project outcomes.
- Ability to motivate and influence staff
- Develop and maintain a compliance dashboard including Directly Employed Labour (DEL) and contractor's competency.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal individually and to groups.
- Understanding of risk management
- Knowledge of NHS Policies, procedures and structures.
- Proficient with AutoCAD 2D
- Experience in Project Management and handling multiple contracts simultaneously.
- Other role specific requirements
- Keyboard skills
- Site visits to all trust properties
- Good concentration for paperwork
- Good communication skills both verbal and written to all levels of the organisation
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Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Estates Compliance Manager
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary Estates team, the Estates Compliance Manager reports to the Associate Director of Estates.The post holder will require advanced specialist knowledge or healthcare design standards, construction legislations and NHS specific requirements, including Health Building Notes (HBN), Health Technical Memoranda (HTM), NHS England Estates Guidance, Building Regulations (Including Building Safety Regulator Higher Risk Buildings) and Health and Safety Executive (HSE), CQC and PLACE audits.The post holder will work closely with the Estates Contracts Manager to ensure all contracts are in compliance with the above requirements.The post holder will manage and chair the Estates Compliance and Safety Group meetings and attend divisional Health & Safety meetings, Infection Prevention Control meetings and others where necessary as the Estates representative and maintain the Estates Schedule of Derogations and Estates Risk Register.The post holder will work closely with the Authorising Engineers (AE) to ensure all systems are regularly audited and action plans are managed. The post holder will ensure the Authorised Persons (AP) and Competent Persons (CP) training and documentation is kept current along with a database for contrac
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