Our client in London is a NHS Trust with a large, diverse estate. They are seeking a permanent Head of Compliance - Hard Services, a crucial role ensuring the Trust is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all hard service provisions across a complex and multi-site estate. The successful candidate will provide effective hard services compliance and performance services, setting and supporting the performance measurement agenda, ensuring the compliance needs of statutory and mandatory requirements are measured and met to agreed deadlines.

Key Responsibilities include:

* Be the Trust's lead for hard services compliance providing expert professional advice to all staff and key stakeholders on all current legislation.

* You will be responsible for communicating complex and sensitive or contentious service-related information to wider Trust staffing groups.

* You will lead and develop a compliance and assurance hard services strategy (aligned to the Trust strategy) and lead the team to successful implementation, to improve compliance and assurance performance across all Trust sites.

* You will continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for all patients and staff. This may require innovative and new ways of delivering services which may conflict with traditional thinking and opinions.

* You will proactively monitor compliance metrics and identifying trends for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance the Trust's compliance and assurance performance.

* You will act as emergency manager during major incidents for recovery planning purposes.

The successful candidate will possess exceptional experience with developing hard services compliance and assurance strategies, followed by implementation. You will have substantial experience operating in a senior hard services role in estates and facilities and be fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impacts on building owners and occupiers. You will have a strong track record leading and managing hard services compliance within a healthcare setting, with proven ability ensuring that appropriate systems are in place to identify, clarify and ensure all areas of compliance are effectively managed in line with current legislation, mandatory requirements, codes of conduct and good practice. You will be educated to Degree level within hard services management (Master's Degree is desired) and be registered with a recognised professional body.

This is a permanent opportunity, offering an annual salary of £82,642 - £93,773 depending on experience.

To schedule a confidential discussion, please contact Connor Humpage at The Management Recruitment Group