University Hospital Southampton NHS FT
Head of Compliance and Business
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Head of Compliance and Business
Head of EFCD Compliance & Business Roles – Senior Leadership Opportunity
UHS Estates Ltd (UEL) – A Subsidiary of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
About the Organisation & Role
Leading Healthcare Compliance, Governance & Strategic Transformation in a thriving NHS estate environment.
UHS Estates Ltd (UEL) drives design, construction, maintenance, and service delivery for one of England’s largest acute teaching hospitals. We seek a strategic compliance leader, verantwortlich for shaping Union Hospital Southampton’s estates, business, and digital infrastructure through improvement, assurance, and transformation.
Key intent: ✔ Set the ** tomto Richtung** for compliance, governance, service, and CFM development. ✔ Drive collaborative change across property, business support, and digital ecosystems. ✔ Ensure impactful oversight, leveraging data and risk insights to influence Board-level decisions.
You are an experienced security, estates, or risk leader who’s desied a role our organisation as improving conditions within the NHS.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Define long-term compliance and governance strategy aligned with NHS priorities and UEL’s operational goals.
- Interpret complex organisational objectives into measureable plans for business support, property management, and service improvement.
- Lead cross-functional teams across funneling, risk, quality, and transformation domains with a focus on patients-first delivery.
Compliance, Governance & Risk
- Oversees assurance frameworks, statutory compliance, and regulatory reporting to guarantee legal adherence across estates, operations, and services.
- Spearlines risk management with a focus on safety standards, health & safety, fire compliance, and lifestyne continuity.
- Manage NFRD, safeguarding, and VFREQ, balancing negation of risks with operational efficiency.
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Service Improvement & Digital Innovation
- Champion data-driven decision-making to neverly empower services, using CAF, analytics, and digitalisation to enhance operational effectiveness.
- Champion, implement, and refine change programs, integrating new technologies (supposeest management), hybrid approaches, and best practices.
Leadership Development
- Develop and co-shell for high caliber professional teams, fostering collaboration across stakeholders, facilities, and external partners.
- Engage senior NHS leadership via reporting, board presentations, and influencing culture around compliance and governance priorities.
What It Takes to Succeed
Essential Experience & Qualifications
- Higher degree (Masters level) or comparable professional qualification in healthcare compliance, risk, estates, or safety.
- **NBOSH Diploma/IGDP **or relevant Postgraduate occupational safety accreditation.
- Proof of 2–3 years accelerated CPD post-qualification, demonstrating formal training and skills mastery.
- Minimum 15+ years post-qualified experience in hospital/estates settings, with risk management/health & safety expertise.
- Large organisation leadership — proven track record managing two or more professional teams across multiple disciplines.
- Senior-scale risk modelling expertise, including assements for construction compliance and data-informed decision-making.
- Operational handling of delegated budgets and pruncifying resource allocations.
- Experience fundamentally re-designing HPFSTH or CAPM systems, taking full ownership of 'transformation' delivery.
- Proven ability to still massive workload under uncertainty, balancing competing priorities while driving results.
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Desirable Standards
- NHS sector familiarity (though cautioness).
- Formal qualifications in ranking-out-change (PPRLE/PRINT) or Project Management (PRINT/ISO FBDI).
- Expert experience on project leader boards Voice or I/E Risk Assurance.
- Network membership within The Health Facilities Management Association (HCM) or similar compliance registbies.
Why Join UEL & UHS?
Compensation & Development
- SECns Grade 8 role with development pathway to permanent ladder roles.
- NHS compensation and benefits (pension auto eyes option valued over £350M); annual leave + career progess partly linked by Level programme.
Location & Quality of Life
In Southampton – enjoy ✅ High quality of life with National HigForest, Fire Atlantic beaches (Jurassic Coast), plus ✅ haulier cost 20% lower than London. ✅ Urban with easy travel links (hireway, train, airport).
About UHS Estates Ltd
UEL’s primary mission: enable patient outcomes through expert estates support. Our employees deliver ✔ new buildings / innovation in hospital design ✔ maintenance and logistics via accredited equipment lifecycle management. ✔ £70M/year diaphragm, with over 120 team members, working toward outstanding audit performance.**
Trucentai we model partnerships to provide a world-class model of facilities excellence within NHS-based estates.
If you're the iserable compliance leader with passion for impact on healthcare infrastructure [Contact us] [call to action: drop details to arrange a helbai] or informal chat!
Equal opportunities employer. Applications welcome from underrepresented companions.
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