Estates Compliance & PFI Transition Manager | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	24 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£85,431 - £97,148 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	26 March 2026
Location:	London, SW10 9NH
Company:	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7800852/289-CR-101

Summary

The Estates Compliance & PFI Transition Manager is a senior specialist role within the Estates & Facilities Directorate. The postholder provides professional leadership across statutory engineering compliance, regulatory governance, and PFI contract transition activities, ensuring that the Trust maintains a safe, resilient, and fully compliant built environment. The role leads the Trust’s PFI transition programme, ensuring all obligations, lifecycle works, asset condition, documentation, certifications and legal requirements associated with contract expiry are delivered in line with NHS, statutory, and contractual standards. Alongside this, the postholder provides senior oversight of estates statutory compliance, HTM governance, audit assurance, PAM/ERIC data quality, and compliance risk management across the Trust. The postholder supports the Associate Director of Estates and collaborates with clinical, operational, commercial and technical teams to ensure compliance excellence and a smooth, safe, and well‑managed transition away from PFI arrangements

· Provide Trust‑wide leadership for statutory and regulatory engineering compliance, including policy development, implementation and continuous improvement across multiple services.

· Design and lead Trust‑wide and cross‑partner R&D and evaluation programmes that create new methodologies, metrics and evidence to inform Board‑level policy, risk dashboards and PFI handback readiness; translate findings into organisation‑wide policy changes and engineering governance improvements.

· Develop research‑driven PFI transition frameworks, including the design, piloting and validation of new assurance methods, lifecycle validation tools and evidence standards; publish and embed the resulting methodologies across the Trust and with ICS partners.

· Act as principal technical and policy representative with SPV partners, funders, regulators, ICS/NHSE, contributing to system‑level frameworks relevant to PFI transition and estates compliance.

Our Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.

Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5m, providing full clinical services including maternity, A&E and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health care. The CQC rates us Good in safety, effectiveness, care and responsiveness, and Outstanding in leadership and resource use.

We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Mid.

We are delivering sustainable healthcare through our Green Plan. In line with Greener NHS ambitions, we aim for net zero carbon emissions by 2045. Achieving this requires collective effort. We encourage staff to reduce their impact on carbon, waste and pollution wherever possible. Every action counts to create a healthier, more sustainable future.

We are committed to equal opportunities and believe diversity drives innovation and excellence. We welcome applications from the global majority, veterans and underrepresented communities, valuing the perspectives they bring.

If you haven’t heard from us within 3 weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probation.

Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.

· Maintain safe systems, governance structures, and risk frameworks that ensure robust compliance and a safe clinical environment.

· Establish research‑derived evidence standards and validation protocols for compliance and PFI handback, including new data models, measurement criteria and evaluation techniques adopted by Estates & Facilities and partners.

· Create and oversee new audit/assurance research methods (e.g., risk‑weighted sampling, predictive defect analytics), evaluate their effectiveness, and standardise successful approaches into Trust‑wide procedures; disseminate learning internally and with partners.

· Ensure all information, documentation, and evidence relevant to compliance and PFI transition is accurate, validated, and audit‑ready; establish research‑derived evidence standards and validation protocols for compliance and handback.

· Coordinate external and internal assurance (e.g., IPA, regulatory and contract audits); co‑develop and trial novel IPA methodologies with external partners, adopting superior approaches through Trust policies.


This advert closes on Tuesday 10 Mar 2026