Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361- 6407619
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/07/2024
Employer heading
Head of Estates - Estates Management Lister
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Head of Estates - Estates Management at Lister who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will lead and manage the operational estates provision, its managers, trade staff and contractors and provide assurance to the Trust Board.
You will deputise for the Director/Deputy Director when necessary and play a full role in the overall management of the Estate function as part of the senior leadership team.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Lead and manage the operational estates provision, its managers, trade staff and contractors and provide assurance to the Trust Board, via the Director of Estates and Facilities and the divisional governance board that the estate, owned and occupied by the Trust for the delivery of health care, is as far as is reasonably practicable, safe and suitable for the delivery of health care and that our patients, staff, visitors and third-party users of the estate are not subject to avoidable risk.
Ensure that the Trust’s duty of care also extends to properties where Trust staff deliver services or otherwise occupy space to deliver support services.
Be the informed client for the Trust in respect of its engineering systems and services, supporting the Trust’s capital team with the capital programme, including backlog maintenance.
Be responsible for significant budgets for pay, non-pay, utilities, and capital (backlog) allocations, identifying and delivering sustainable efficiency and improvement targets.
Deputise for the Director/Deputy Director when necessary and play a full role in the overall management of the Estate function as part of the senior leadership team.
Represent the Estates and Facilities division at key operational and strategic meetings as a subject matter expert and deputise for the Director/Deputy Director as required.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses or experience to masters equivalent level plus in-depth managerial, financial, and strategic knowledge.
- Membership of an appropriate professional body (IMechE, CIBSE, IET, IHEEM, etc.)
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised Project Management qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in a similar role within an Estates or Facilities team. Demonstrable experience of having managed senior teams, operational budgets,and multiple construction or refurbishment projects.
- Leading a senior team of engineering managers.
- Managing reactive and planned preventative maintenance systems and the development and delivery of minor capitalprojects
- Managing a significant workforce in disciplines ranging from electrical, engineering, mechanical engineering and trades staff.
- Managing significant budgets for all areas relating to the role for both pay, nonpay and capital including the identification &delivery of savings targets
- Providing expert advice at a senior level on engineering and construction matters, in accordance with national and local policies and standards.
- Successful negotiation and contract management.
- Completing business cases for Capital investment.
- Planning and delivery of complex maintenance programmes
- Strong track record in managing schemes to time and budget
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing joint and collaborative working with local health and commercial partners.
- Experience within an NHS healthcare environment.
Skills & Qualities
Essential criteria
- Significant knowledge in all engineering related matters to a level of subject matter expert.
- Knowledge of current legislation and guidance for NHS properties, such as HBNs and HTMs
- Good knowledge of industry standard building construction contracts, along with the ability to effectively manage contractual relationships with Contractors and Consultants
- Good working knowledge of the Building Regulations
- Knowledge & understanding of public sector construction frameworks and EU procurement regulations.
- Detailed understanding of requirements of HTMs and HBNs and all Professional Standards relating to Estate Operations
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety legislations and requirements of working within a built environment – CDM regulations and IPAC requirements.
- Specialist technical knowledge including legislation relating to construction, development and property management of Healthcare Buildings
- Good understanding of Public Procurement Regulations
- Formal engineering management training.
- Sound financial acumen and highly developed commercial and contract negotiation skills.
- Complex problem solving, decision-making and analytical skills.
- Good judgment and analytical skills and able to process facts, interpret and provide appropriate advice, often balancing conflicting demands.
- A proven ability to come up with flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems. Excellent collaborative working skills and able to work across Departments, with multiple stakeholders and within multidisciplinary teams
- Able to prioritise, schedule and monitor to completion, multiple projects often running in parallel, understanding key priorities, meeting deadlines and maintaining a consistent high-quality output, by allocating time effectively.
- Effective oral and written skills in the presentation and interpretation of complex information to directors, senior managers and clinicians, including the effective chairing of meetings.
- Ability to think strategically and develop practical plans to implement to estate and facilities strategies.
- Ability to identify, plan and undertake research and development initiatives to inform strategic objectives
- Evidence of achievements in a complex environment including effective management of change.
- Understanding risk management and implementing quality management systems.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to provide unsocial hours attendance, either in times of crisis, or on the Duty Estate Officer roster.
Physical requirements of post
Essential criteria
- Health and physical abilities sufficient for the post (if necessary with reasonable adjustments with respect to the Equality Act/Disability Discrimination Act)
- Able to climb ladders or access confirmed spaces or sewers for surveys, inspections or assessments.
- Able to accurately read manufacturers plates & drawings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Morris
- Job title
- Deputy Director of Estate and Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789417061
- Additional information
Please contact Samantha Biggs on the above email or telephone number if you have any questions or would like to arrange an informal chat with Alison Morris
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