Job summary
- Main area
- Head of Estates Backlog Maintenance
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-CR-857
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £96,340 - £109,849 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Estates Backlog Maintenance
Band 8d
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and motivated leader with a proven background in estates maintenance or construction within the NHS, healthcare, or a related sector. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Manager to join our Estates Management team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our built environment and make a tangible difference across Trust sites.
As the Head of Estates Backlog Maintenance, you will play a pivotal role, working full-time on site and reporting to the Head of Estates. Your extensive experience in providing tactical and operational leadership in an estates infrastructure setting, preferably within a healthcare environment, will set you apart, alongside your excellent financial acumen, communication skills, and ability to lead and manage a team effectively.
In return, you will have the chance to work collaboratively with senior stakeholders and contribute to significant projects that leave a lasting legacy. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are passionate about transforming ideas into reality, this could be the perfect role for you.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership and management for the Estates Team, collaborating with senior managers within the Directorate to oversee the £20m+ backlog maintenance capital programme across all Trust sites.
Contribute to operational and corporate planning, specifically the Trust’s annual and 5 year rolling capital backlog investment plan, that maintains the estates infrastructure whilst a Government new hospital programme project is delivered over the next 10-15 years.
Partner with Trust stakeholders to develop project schemes, while managing procurement processes, supervising design teams, and ensuring accountability for financial performance, project timelines, quality delivery, and the development of business cases.
Hold appropriate higher-level education in Estates and/or Facilities Management, with demonstrable evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD).
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appropriate higher education in Estates and/or Facilities Management
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable criteria
- Senior training in leadership and management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive senior management experience in leading large multi-disciplined capital programmes in complex organisations, delivering quality multifaceted services.
- Exceptional level of experience and practical knowledge in the field of coordinating large complex
- Backlog maintenance projects.
- Dealing with complicated NHS employment issues (disciplinary hearings, grievances, dismissals, redundancies, appeals), TUPE transfers, restructures, and organisational change.
- Developing tender bids, presentation, and mobilisation of capital backlog projects, demonstrating commercial acumen and experience of business and financial planning including analysis and cost profiling.
- Setting, managing and successfully delivering to forecast capital project budgets.
- Extensive experience of managing capital backlog maintenance contracts (auditing, monitoring, life cycle costing, payment mechanisms, variations etc.) in relation to SLA arrangements and all associated technical and commercial contracts.
- Successful track record of working in large and small high performing teams delivering challenging targets, KPIs and achieving results.
- Experience of inter-professional, inter-agency, and cross boundary working with external organisations including Department of Health, NHS Estates, NHS Property Services & Community Health Partnerships, City & County Councils, Greater East Midlands Commissioning Services Unit, NHS England, HSE etc.
- Knowledge and understanding of policy and thinking in the fields relevant to the post
- Dealing with complex situations in a pressured environment
- Supportive and effective line management abilities
- Experience in the management of a high quality, responsive and cost-effective capital backlog maintenance service with specific customer focus.
Desirable criteria
- Previous managerial experience relevant to the services in this post. Already in a deputy post.
- Involvement in technology and digital developments in Estates and Facilities
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shane King
- Job title
- Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920 085239
- Additional information
Andrew Murray 07795 226752
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