Job overview

Join Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and lead statutory, regulatory and NHS estates compliance across a diverse mental health and community estate. You will be the Trust’s designated Fire Safety Manager, ensuring compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and NHS Firecode, providing clear assurance and expert advice to senior leaders.

You’ll oversee the full estates compliance portfolio, fire, water safety, asbestos, electrical safety and wider built‑environment requirements, driving strong governance, high‑quality certification, and rapid closure of remedial actions. Working with Estates & Facilities colleagues, contractors and Authorising Engineers (e.g., water, electrical and pressure systems), you’ll embed best practice, manage specialist contracts, and convert audits and inspections into practical improvement plans and risk controls.

This is a high‑impact role for an experienced compliance professional who can analyse performance data, improve evidence quality (including compliance dashboards/certification QA), influence operational teams and deliver safer, more consistent compliance outcomes Trust‑wide.

Main duties of the job

Lead the estates compliance programme; maintain compliance registers and track inspections, servicing, testing and remedials.

Ensure compliance with HTMs/HBNs, British Standards and building regs; advise and contribute to risk/assurance reporting.

Fire Safety Manager: develop/review fire safety policy & procedures; coordinate FRAs and action plans; deliver training/drills; liaise with Fire & Rescue/authorities.

Lead compliance for water safety (Legionella), asbestos, electrical safety and other domains; ensure risk assessments are completed, reviewed and actioned.

Manage Authorising Engineers (water/electrical/pressure): contracts/specs, performance monitoring, audits/visits and implementing recommendations. Lead compliance reporting and CAFM oversight: assure data integrity, optimise PPM tracking/audit readiness; train/support Helpdesk and QA of PPM remedials.

Audit/contractor/project oversight: site audits and reports; validate RAMS/certificates/permits; support capital/minor works so compliance is embedded.     

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.