Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-ESS1590-Y
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Dover Street
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £61,927 - £68,676 p.a. Inclusive of HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 10/07/2025
Employer heading

Water Contract Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic, high-performing team dedicated to water compliance? Are you passionate about proactive management and maintaining high standards? If so, we would like to hear from you as we are looking for outstanding individuals to work within the Compliance team as Water Contract Managers.
Closing Date: 02 July 2025 at Midnight
Proposed Interview Date: 10 July 2025
Main duties of the job
These roles are crucial posts in ensuring that GSTT is compliant with legal and statutory requirements for all water contract management services across a complex and multi-site organisation.
The role will provide effective compliance, and performance services for Essentia Directorate, setting and supporting the performance measurement agenda, ensuring the compliance needs of, statutory and mandatory requirements etc. are measured and met to agreed deadlines.
Working for our organisation
We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.
In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including:
The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
A minimum of 27 days annual holiday allowance (not including bank holidays), plus the option to buy and sell. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
Interest free Season Ticket Loan
Long Term Service Awards
Sports and social club
Subsidised staff gym and leisure facilities at both hospital sites, including a 25m swimming pool at Guy’s
Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
On-site cinemas for patients and staff
A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'
Weekly lunchtime walking group
Ride to work scheme
Employee assistance programme
Free staff counselling service
Free stop smoking service
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and personal specification. The postholder:
· Be one of the Trust’s lead for the Legionella Risk Assessment water programme contract management providing professional advice to the Director on the contract performance aligned to current legislation.
· Be one of the Trust Authorised Persons (APs) for water safety.
· Lead the implementation of a Legionella Risk Assessment water programme and other associated activity for the implementation of a revised water strategy, as part of the overall compliance and assurance hard services strategy, (aligned to GSTT strategy to 2030) implementation, to improve compliance and assurance performance across all GSTT sites.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s Degree gained within hard services discipline.
- Registered with a recognised professional body.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of operating in a senior hard services role in an estates and facilities context.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Fully conversant with the statutory and legal requirements that impacts on building owners and occupiers.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the relationships between Facilities departments and their impact on the process set out and required by compliance
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Davina Scoble
- Job title
- Interim Director, Transformation & Change
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 077669062069
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