Head of Regulatory and Compliance

Formed in 2018, RFL Property Services is a 100% wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and has embarked on a journey of transformational change in the way estate services are delivered within the NHS and deliver a ground-breaking operating model for services that overcome traditional organisational boundaries and align across the ICS and Provider Alliance for North Central London.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, our “parent” Trust, is one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the UK, delivering care through our 4 main hospital sites, North Middlesex, Barnet, Chase Farm and Royal Free.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly experienced and results-focused Head of Regulatory and Compliance to join RFLPS during the exciting period of business growth.

The purpose of the role is to provide independent assurance to RFLPS and RFL Group by auditing, testing and challenging compliance with statutory, clinical and non-clinical regulatory requirements within estates and facilities operations managed by RFLPS.

This is fundamentally an assurance and audit role rather than an estates and facilities operations role. The successful candidate does not need an estates background: strong candidates may come from internal audit, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, risk management or forensic auditing backgrounds, provided they bring rigour, scepticism and evidential discipline the role demands.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting directly to Managing Director, you will be responsible for:

• Providing independent assurance to RFLPS and RFL Group by auditing, testing and challenging compliance with statutory, clinical and non-clinical regulatory requirements within estates and facilities operations managed by RFLPS.
• Ensuring that RFLPS's teams understand, meet and can provide evidence to compliance with the full range of statutory, regulatory and customer requirements that apply to the healthcare estate.
• Building and leading a regulatory and compliance assurance framework that goes beyond conventional estates compliance monitoring.
• Designing, implementing and managing of an independent audit framework that tests documented compliance against the reality of physical execution on site – triangulating qualitative and quantitative evidence to establish and defend “one truth” about the true state of regulatory compliance across the estate within the RFL Group.
• Maintaining a rolling programme of statutory audits and inspections (including fire safety, water hygiene, medical equipment and electrical safety) and tracking remedial actions through to verified closure.
• Managing the forward pipeline of external regulatory and accreditation activity (including CQC, HSE, HTA, MHRA and JAG) and producing evidence-based assurance reports for the Managing Director and RFLPS Board.