Water Contract Manager | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The role is a crucial post in ensuring that GSTT is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all water contract management services across a complex and multi-site organisation. The role will provide effective compliance, and performance services for Essentia Directorate, setting and supporting the performance measurement agenda, ensuring the compliance needs of, statutory and mandatory requirements etc. are measured and met to agreed deadlines.

• Be one of the Trust’s leads for water contract management providing professional advice to the Director on the contract performance aligned to current legislation
• Be one of the Trust Authorised Persons (APs) for water safety
• Be responsible for communicating complex and sensitive or contentious service-related information to GSTT contractors
• Lead the implementation of a water strategy, as part of the overall compliance and assurance hard services strategy, (aligned to GSTT strategy to 2030) implementation, to improve compliance and assurance performance across all GSTT sites
• To continually improve reporting systems in order to maintain a safe environment for patients and staff. This may require innovative and new ways of delivering services which may conflict with traditional thinking and opinions
• Pro-actively monitors metrics and identifying trend for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance the GSTT contract performance
• Acts as emergency manager during major incident for recovery planning purposes
• Lead the Contractor team and self by example modelling the Trust values and behaviours, ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion objectives of the trust are championed, supported and implemented

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.

• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Long Term Service Awards
• Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'
• Ride to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Free stop smoking servic

Our Trust values

We areCaring / Ambitions / Inclusive

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Thursday 28 May 2026