Job summary
- Main area
- Estates and Facilities
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 358-7114536-SNR
- Employer
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
- Town
- Leicester
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 21/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/05/2025
Employer heading

Director of Estates, Facilities and Sustainability
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
We are actively promoting flexible working options, helping you to manage a work / life balance
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Director of Estates, Facilities and Sustainability to join our senior leadership team at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL).
This is a pivotal role responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of our estate and facilities functions, while also championing our Trust-wide sustainability ambitions and NHS Net Zero goals.
You will be joining us at an exciting and challenging time, with the opportunity to drive real impact across one of the largest and most complex acute Trusts in the country. We are also on an ambitious journey of transformation and improvement, with a strong focus on patient safety, operational excellence, and creating a greener, more sustainable future.
This role will give you the opportunity to work alongside exceptional leaders and teams. You will be welcomed at UHL and your personality, skills and experience will be embraced to support the provision of safe care and you will effectively introduce innovative ways of working.
If you want to join a team and an organisation that has achieved great things and aspires for so much more, please contact me directly for a conversation: [email protected]
Main duties of the job
· Provide strategic leadership for estates, facilities, and sustainability across all UHL sites
· Ensure a safe, efficient, compliant and patient-centred environment
· Lead the development and implementation of the Trust’s Green Plan and carbon reduction initiatives
· Manage and support a large operational workforce
· Work collaboratively across the ICS and with national partners
· Support the delivery of high-quality care through estates transformation and innovation
Working for our organisation
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
- high-quality care for all,
- being a great place to work,
- partnerships for impact, and
- research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- we are compassionate,
- we are proud,
- we are inclusive, and
- we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Degree in Engineering, Building, Surveying, Architecture, Estates or Facilities Management
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience in a Senior Management position with responsibility and accountability for the delivery of Estates and Facilities services and/or Capital delivery
Essential
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of how the Estates and Facilities function operates in the acute NHS setting
Essential
Essential criteria
- Sound understanding of financial management and processes, with in-depth knowledge of Contract Management
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Hogg
- Job title
- Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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