# Associate Director of Estates Technical Compliance, Band 8c > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-estates-technical-compliance-band-8c/c38c7e9f-665e-4827-b91b-8f1b26116f5b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/associate-director-of-estates-technical-compliance-band-8c/c38c7e9f-665e-4827-b91b-8f1b26116f5b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Gloucestershire Royal Hospital; Alexandra House (Trust Headquarters) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Estates and facilities - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 (pa pro rata if part-time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-16T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T12:31:00.058Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Gloucestershire/Gloucester/Gloucestershire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Estates_Management/Estates_Management-v8268407 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8268407?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced estates professional ready for a strategic leadership role where your expertise directly shapes safety, assurance, and Board-level decision-making? We are seeking an exceptional leader to join us as Associate Director of Estates Technical Compliance, ensuring the Trust meets all statutory, regulatory, and NHS estates compliance requirements across a complex estate. Working at the heart of the organisation, you will provide assurance to the Executive Team, Designated Person (DP), and Trust Board, leading estates compliance and governance. This includes HTMs/HBNs, statutory audits, and key safety areas such as fire, water, electrical resilience, medical gases, asbestos, and wider infrastructure risk This is a highly influential role within a collaborative environment, working across partners including our wholly owned subsidiary (GMS), PFI partners, landlords, and ICS colleagues. You’ll help ensure estates services remain safe, compliant, and resilient while driving continuous improvement We are looking for a senior professional with experience in healthcare estates, facilities, or infrastructure, and strong knowledge of HTMs, HBNs, and compliance accountability frameworks. The role requires the ability to translate complex technical risk into clear insight for senior stakeholders, alongside strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills. Experience in governance or safety groups and a strong commitment to patient and staff safety are essential ### Main duties of the job - Lead estates governance and ensure full compliance with statutory, regulatory, and NHS requirements across the Trust estates - Oversee the NHS Premises Assurance Model (PAM), including submission, action planning, and continuous improvement - Chair and/or support estates safety governance groups, ensuring effective Authorising Engineer oversight and assurance frameworks - Provide independent assurance through audits, inspections, and structured risk escalation processes - Deliver clear, insightful Board-level reporting on estates risk, safety, compliance, and performance - Contribute to business continuity planning and incident response management across estates services - Lead governance and oversight of the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), ensuring alignment with organisational priorities - Work in close partnership with clinical, operational, and EPRR teams to ensure integrated, resilient service delivery ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification for the main responsibilities for the role. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications/ Education **Essential** - Degree in a relevant engineering, estates, FM or safety discipline, or equivalent experience - In-depth managerial, financial and contracting knowledge - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development - Professional membership of a relevant body (e.g., IHEEM, IWFM, IOSH/IIRSM, Engineering Council) - Formal training in healthcare estates compliance, HTMs/HBNs, or safety management ### Experience, Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Significant senior experience in Estates, FM and/or Capital within a complex acute healthcare environment - Working in complex environment providing assurance to duty holder e.g. Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Private Finance Initiative (or similar) complex FM contracts - Demonstrable experience leading Estates governance and compliance frameworks - Experience providing assurance to senior executives, Boards or duty holders in complex legal and contractual environments e.g. WOS, PFI, Estates providers - Strong knowledge of statutory legislation, NHS Assurance and Accountability Framework (AAF), HTMs/HBNs, and estates related risk - Experience chairing complex safety or governance groups - Ability to interpret complex technical, legal and regulatory information for non technical audiences - Experience working with multiple providers and landlords to deliver compliance assurance - Advanced data analysis, reporting and governance presentation skills - Experience with Power BI, compliance systems and/or AI platforms - Experience of major incident response or business continuity planning ### Leadership & Behavioural Qualities **Essential** - Highly developed leadership skills with the ability to influence, challenge and negotiate at all levels - Strong organisational skills; able to manage competing priorities and deadlines - Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills - Ability to handle contentious, sensitive and high risk issues confidently - Demonstrates initiative, resilience and a proactive approach to risk and safety - Commitment to teamwork, collaboration and Trust values ## Documents - [why work for us - rewards and benefits (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2952) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10583165) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.