Compliance & Contracts Specialist Manager | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Compliance & Contracts Specialist Manager to provide operational assurance across Estates and Facilities services. The postholder will manage a defined portfolio of estates and specialist service contracts, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, NHS Health Technical Memoranda and contractual requirements, while supporting performance monitoring, audit readiness and effective governance across the Trust estate.

The postholder will provide operational assurance across Estates and Facilities services, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, NHS Health Technical Memoranda and contractual requirements. Key duties include managing a defined portfolio of estates and specialist service contracts, monitoring contractor performance, maintaining robust compliance evidence, supporting audit readiness, and working closely with Estates, Procurement and service providers to address risks, performance issues and service improvement opportunities.

For full details of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description.

Our Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.

Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5m, providing full clinical services including maternity, A&E and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health care. The CQC rates us Good in safety, effectiveness, care and responsiveness, and Outstanding in leadership and resource use.

We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Mid.

We are delivering sustainable healthcare through our Green Plan. In line with Greener NHS ambitions, we aim for net zero carbon emissions by 2045. Achieving this requires collective effort. We encourage staff to reduce their impact on carbon, waste and pollution wherever possible. Every action counts to create a healthier, more sustainable future.

We are committed to equal opportunities and believe diversity drives innovation and excellence. We welcome applications from the global majority, veterans and underrepresented communities, valuing the perspectives they bring.

If you haven’t heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probation.Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

• Provide operational assurance across Estates and Facilities services to ensure compliance with statutory legislation, NHS Health Technical Memoranda and contractual requirements.
• Manage a defined portfolio of estates and specialist service contracts, monitoring compliance, performance and delivery against agreed standards.
• Act as the operational point of contact for compliance assurance with service providers, challenging non‑compliance and supporting remedial actions.
• Monitor contract performance through SLAs, KPIs and action plans, identifying risks, trends and areas requiring escalation.
• Maintain accurate, auditable compliance and contract records to support governance, inspections and audit readiness.
• Analyse compliance and performance data to identify assurance gaps, emerging risks and service improvement opportunities.
• Work closely with Estates, Procurement and CAFM colleagues to support effective compliance recording, reporting and governance.

For full details of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the Job Description.

This advert closes on Monday 4 May 2026