# Senior Compliance Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Ipswich Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Compliance officer
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T10:00:36.212Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Colchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administration_Compliance/Administration_Compliance-v8375998
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8375998?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Make a Difference Behind Every Patient Experience

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and highly organised Senior Compliance Officer to join our Estates and Facilities team.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in assuring the quality and performance of a large Facilities Management contract covering Cleaning, Catering, Logistics, Portering, Security, Car Parking, Visitor Services and associated support services across the Trust.

Working closely with clinical teams, operational managers and our contracted service provider, you will help ensure that facilities services are safe, effective, compliant and delivered to the highest standards for patients, visitors and staff.

This position requires significant travel between sites and is 100% site based.

### Main duties of the job

As a Senior Compliance Officer, you will:

- Lead and coordinate monitoring, audit and inspection programmes across Facilities Management services.
- Review and analyse contractor performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and contractual requirements.
- Undertake environmental cleanliness audits and other assurance activities in line with national healthcare standards.
- Investigate service failures, complaints, incidents and contractual non-compliance, ensuring corrective actions are implemented and monitored.
- Produce reports, dashboards and management information to support governance and decision-making.
- Support external inspections, PLACE assessments, internal audits and regulatory reviews.
- Build effective working relationships with service providers, clinical teams and stakeholders across the Trust.
- Provide guidance and support to Monitoring Officers and colleagues involved in assurance activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance service quality, compliance and value for money

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Please note the Trust will be changing recruitment systems from 1 November. Successful candidates will be contacted with further details

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Contract monitoring and performance management principles.
- - Audit, inspection and assurance methodologies
- - Data analysis and reporting techniques.

**Desirable**

- - National Standards of Healthcare Cleanliness
- - Facilities Management services and outsourced contract management

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Significant experience of audits, inspections, compliance monitoring or quality assurance activities.
- - Experience analysing performance data and producing management reports
- - Experience managing performance concerns and monitoring corrective actions.

**Desirable**

- - Facilities Management experience
- - Experience monitoring outsourced contracts

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - GCSE Grade 4/C (or equivalent) in English and Maths.

**Desirable**

- - Relevant management, compliance, audit or Facilities Management qualification.

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 120.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10704241)
- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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