Job summary
Were looking for an experienced and highly organisedContracts and Compliance Coordinatorto play a key role in the administration and oversight of business contracts and subcontracts.
Working across multiple stakeholders, youll ensure contracts progress efficiently through internal approval processes while supporting compliance tracking, risk identification, and project coordination. This role requires someone with a strong background in contract and project management, exceptional attention to detail, and the confidence to liaise with both operational teams and senior leaders to drive timely, compliant contract execution.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position for one year, offered on a hybrid basis with flexibility to balance time between our County Hall office in Chelmsford, Essex and remote working to suit individual and service needs.
Main duties of the job
- Lead on the administration of business contracts and subcontracts, ensuring they follow internal governance processes and regulatory standards
- Coordinate and track contract progress across multiple stakeholders, managing time-sensitive approvals and documentation with minimal oversight
- Maintain robust records and audit trails in line with compliance and data protection standards (e.g. GDPR, NHS DSPT)
- Proactively identify and escalate potential risks, delays, or non-compliance issues to the appropriate senior leads
- Monitor contract expirations and initiate timely reviews, renewals, or exit processes where required
- Liaise confidently with senior colleagues, legal, finance, and operational teams to ensure contract terms are adhered to and key deadlines are met
- Produce contract performance reports, summaries, and updates for senior management and transformation leads
- Support governance around service retenders, including managing documentation, meeting actions, and bid coordination
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As aContracts and Compliance Coordinator,youll be part of our valued team based atSeax House, County Hall, Chelmsford.
You will feel valued as aContracts and Compliance Coordinatorwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £40,000 - £45,000 (depending on experience) with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The Ideal Candidate
Were looking for a proactive and detail-focused professional with a strong background incontract and project management, ideally within a regulated or healthcare setting.
Youll bring:
- Significant experience incontract administration, business supportor senior administrative role.
- Proven ability tomanage and coordinate projects or contractual workstreams, with multiple stakeholders and deadlines
- Strongorganisational skills, with the ability to juggle competing priorities while maintaining accurate, audit-ready records
- Excellentwritten and verbal communication skills, with confidence in engaging senior stakeholders
- A clear understanding ofcontract lifecycle management, governance, and regulatory compliance
- Working knowledge ofdata protection requirements(e.g. GDPR, NHS DSPT) and how they apply in contract handling
Desirable:
- Experience within theNHS, healthcare, or wider public sectorenvironment
- Familiarity withgovernance frameworks and reporting toolsused for contract performance and assurance
- Experience supporting or coordinatingprocurement, retender, or bid processes
Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As aContracts and Compliance Coordinator,youll be part of our valued team based atSeax House, County Hall, Chelmsford.
You will feel valued as aContracts and Compliance Coordinatorwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £40,000 - £45,000 (depending on experience) with access to our group pension
- Free tea, coffeeand milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The Ideal Candidate
Were looking for a proactive and detail-focused professional with a strong background incontract and project management, ideally within a regulated or healthcare setting.
Youll bring:
- Significant experience incontract administration, business supportor senior administrative role.
- Proven ability tomanage and coordinate projects or contractual workstreams, with multiple stakeholders and deadlines
- Strongorganisational skills, with the ability to juggle competing priorities while maintaining accurate, audit-ready records
- Excellentwritten and verbal communication skills, with confidence in engaging senior stakeholders
- A clear understanding ofcontract lifecycle management, governance, and regulatory compliance
- Working knowledge ofdata protection requirements(e.g. GDPR, NHS DSPT) and how they apply in contract handling
Desirable:
- Experience within theNHS, healthcare, or wider public sectorenvironment
- Familiarity withgovernance frameworks and reporting toolsused for contract performance and assurance
- Experience supporting or coordinatingprocurement, retender, or bid processes
Please see the attached job description for a full person specification.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
