# Engineering Compliance Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/engineering-compliance-manager/f3bdfc5b-c8bf-4816-bcab-6029efd5f190 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/engineering-compliance-manager/f3bdfc5b-c8bf-4816-bcab-6029efd5f190.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum incl HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-20T11:51:35.801Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Essentia_Engineering/Essentia_Engineering-v8127362 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8127362?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a pivotal leadership position responsible for ensuring that all Statutory and Mandatory requirements for Building & Engineering compliance provided by in-house teams and contracting partners are satisfied and all operational performance is being appropriately managed. The successful candidate will possess a high level of building and engineering technical expertise that will be shared with the Operational teams to provide operational excellence, patient, staff and visitor safety, and effective management of the estate. In line with the NHS Management and Leadership Framework and Code of Practice, the post holder will demonstrate compassionate, inclusive and accountable leadership, model GSTT values, and create psychologically safe environments in which staff can speak up, learn and improve. The post holder will use service, workforce and quality insight to identify and reduce inequity, support anti-racist practice, and improve fairness, belonging and outcomes for staff, patients and service users, including people from marginalised groups. As one of the Essentia Leadership Team you will be required to work one weekend every 3 months and be part of the Directorates on-call rota. ### Main duties of the job Ensures that the Trust Estate is compliant in terms of Statutory, Mandatory, Regulatory, Best Practice, HTM and other relevant standards, including providing advice on compliance implications of any Department of Health or Health and Safety Executive initiatives or changes in legislation. Ensure that the Building & Engineering services, both outsourced and in-house, are compliant with the required specification and standard against national statutory, regulatory, best practice and contractual standards; and where there is a gap in compliance to ensure this is escalated to the Head of Compliance. Ensure that the Trust complies with its responsibilities including but not limited to: - Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - Care Quality Commission (CQC) (Registration) Regulations - Health & Social Care Act - Department of Health guidance relevant to Estates and Facilities Services - Health Technical Memorandum 00 Policies and principles of healthcare engineering. - GSTT Policies ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Excellent understanding and specialist knowledge of NHS Estates departments. - Highly developed communication skills, with ability to communicate highly complex information where exceptional influencing skills are required. - Demonstrates advanced practical engineering skills acquired through extensive training and experience, including the ability to inspect, assess and diagnose defects within complex healthcare engineering systems. - Detailed technical understanding of legislation governing the provision of Building & Engineering services and the ability to translate this into practice ### Additional **Essential** - Commitment to the Essentia Way - working together, doing it well and looking after each other. - Commitment to Equality and Diversity for all and with a demonstrable leadership capacity in inclusion. - Band 8a leadership expectation: evidence of leading inclusive and anti-racist practice across services/teams, taking action on inequity, and fostering allyship and psychologically safe cultures. ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Extensive track record of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders. - Ability to analyse, synthesise and interpret highly complex data, filtering and interpreting information to identify and focus on issues to be addressed, developing plans to resolve. - Intellectual flexibility with the ability to cut through ambiguity and complexity and to shape solution and implement a solution that provides more effective and innovative service delivery models. - Proven strong written communication skills, in particular for complex drafting, and ability to produce & present effective business cases. - Demonstrable inclusive, anti-racist and compassionate leadership skills, including creating psychologically safe teams, challenging discriminatory behaviour, and using data and feedback to improve fairness and belonging. ### Previous experience **Essential** - Track record of engineering compliance experience within an Estates, Facilities, infrastructure or equivalent complex operational environment. - Detailed understanding of the engineering requirements within a complex NHS environment. - Experience of leading complex services in the NHS or an equivalent regulated environment, with evidence of service improvement, compliance and stakeholder partnership working ### Qualifications/ Education **Essential** - Education to first degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience, in an engineering discipline alongside additional in-depth professional training and specialist knowledge. - Authorised Person/ Responsible Person training/qualifications. - H&S qualification, NEBOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification / demonstrable knowledge Diploma, IOSH or equivalent health and safety qualification / demonstrable knowledge. **Desirable** - Chartered Engineer (CEng). ### Professionals/ Statutory Registration **Essential** - No statutory professional registration is specified unless explicitly required for a local appointment, authorisation or designated responsible person duty. Role-specific appointments must be supported by appropriate competence, training and formal Trust authorisation / governance arrangements. ## Documents - [jd- engineering compliance manager (pdf, 456.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10424226) - [frf- engineering compliance manager (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10424228) ## 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.