Job overview

Transforming our estate for the future

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the NHS as we transform our estate to deliver 21st century care and the best possible outcomes for our patients.

Estates are at the centre of the government’s plans for transforming the NHS. The NHS Long Term Plan outlines the need to ‘accelerate the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the decade ahead.’ We have laid the groundwork for fundamental change to enable us to deliver on this commitment across our estate and we now need you to help us reap the rewards of this work.

We have big ambitions, such as becoming the world’s first net zero health system by 2040, setting global standards for healthcare providers, building 40 new state-of-the-art hospitals, and channelling investment to accelerate community-based care for patients.

This is a pivotal time in the history of the NHS and a once in a lifetime career opportunity to be part of transforming the largest estate in the country. Join us as we embark on this seismic shift to future proof our estate.

The NHS Estate

Our hospital estate spans 25 million m² with 1.4 million NHS staff working across 17,000 buildings, including 1,140 hospitals and 7,500 primary care sites, our c100k staff are responsible for maintaining and running all EFM services.

With £5 billion of operational capital funding and annual expenditure of £10 billion across estates and facilities management, there’s scope to make real change across our estate.

Main duties of the job

The National Estates Sustainability team supports the NHS’ net zero ambition by reducing the environmental and financial impact of operating the NHS estate, addressing two key areas: building energy and waste. Our three key documents, the NHS Estates Net Zero Delivery Plan, NHS Net Zero Building Standard and NHS Clinical Waste Strategy set the system’s direction of travel to achieve this.

Reporting to the Head of Estates Sustainability, you will drive programmes to embed sustainability in NHS estates. This includes managing programmes and projects; reporting to stakeholders; and identifying progress and barriers to programme delivery, collating and analysing data to show this.

You will work across teams including the wider NHSE National Estates Team, Greener NHS, and estates and sustainability leads in ICSs, primary care, and secondary care.  You will have line management responsibility  including any apprentices/interns.

About you - A proven programme manager, you know the value of well administered programmes and the personal difference you can make. You will have a passion for sustainability with experience of delivering sustainability programmes within complex organisations.

You will work comfortably across teams to deliver outcomes. You will be confident using MS Office and analysing data, able to translate information into clear programme reports.  You will be passionate about your own and your team’s professional development which we will support and encourage.

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.