Facilities Manager – Governance, Risk and Compliance @ University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an effective highly motivated governance professional to join our Estates and Facilities Management Commercial and Compliance Team as a job share for the Facilities Manager - Governance, Risk and Compliance position.

This role is essential to ensuring effective governance arrangements and compliance reporting within Estates and Facilities. The role includes management of the Estates and Facilities incidents, concerns and complaints, freedom of information requests, governance dashboard and annual returns, such as the Premises Assurance Model and Estates Return Information Collection.

The position holder will be required to form good working relationships with colleagues across the Estates and Facilities Directorate as well as the wider Trust to champion continuous improvement . The position holder must be able to review incidents and concerns to identify themes and highlight learning and suggested improvements.

The role includes producing accurate high level detailed reports for a range of meetings including Directorate meeting, as well as Trust Board and Board Committees on behalf of the Director of Estates and Facilities.

Main duties of the job

• To lead the governance and compliance arrangements within Estates and Facilities Management
• Preparation of data and reports for governance, risk, health safety and wellbeing and compliance.
• Implement existing audit tools and develop new audit tools to monitor Governance, risk, Health, Safety and wellbeing and compliance within Estates and Facilities Services.
• Management of all Directorate risks, incidents, complaints, concerns and freedom of information requests
• Ensure that all auditing of services is carried out to a set timetable in-line with required standards.
• Lead the Directorate's annual national returns including Premises Assurance Model and Estates Return Information Collection, liaising with departmental managers and gather evidence to document compliance
• Investigate internal & external complaints and non-conformances as requested by Estates and Facilities Managers using root-cause analysis and reporting findings.
• Support Estates and Facilities Managers with the Incident Reporting procedure. Carry out investigations and make recommendations to the responsible manager, as required.
• Continuous development of projects that enhance the environment and Directorate compliance.

Closing date of applications: 5 November 2026

Interview date: 18 November 2026

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.

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Please note this position is not eligible for sponsorship. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an existing and ongoing right to work in the UK for the duration of the contract without sponsorship from the Trust.

Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person Specification

Education, Training and Qualifications CPD Requirements

Essential

• Educated to Degree level or have relevant management experience in a similar role.
• Experience in undertaking complex audits and risk assessments of all aspects of FM services including audits of PFI FM service providers and completion of Divisional Risk Assessments for inclusion on the Divisional Risk Register.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of a range of work procedures relating to Facilities within a hospital setting or similar.
• Safety Policies and Procedures and recognise their importance and take immediate steps to rectify any issues.
• An understanding of the roles and functions of other members of the care team.
• An understanding of the philosophy of patient focused care and be proactive with its outcomes.

Skills and Ability

Essential

• Able to liaise with senior members of the Facilities management and Clinical teams. To liaise with senior members of the Facilities management and Clinical teams.
• Ability to influence and change services to meet the needs of the client
• Negotiation skills for agreeing contract variations.

Experience

Essential

• Must have experience of working in a Health Care Setting or similar.
• Understand the function that Facilities Services provide.
• Experience in IT, budget setting, recruitment and training.
• Monitoring, auditing and analysing data.
• Experience of managing staff or a team.
• Experience of contract negotiation and management
• Experience of risk management, Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)