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:
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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
Join Us as Head of Estates Backlog Maintenance – Shape the Future of Healthcare!
Are you a visionary leader with a proven track record in estates maintenance or construction within the NHS, healthcare, or a related sector? We are on the hunt for an exceptional Senior Manager to elevate our Estates Management team to new heights. This is your opportunity to leave a lasting impact across Trust sites by shaping the future of our built environment.
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What Makes This Role Unique? As the Head of Estates Backlog Maintenance, you will take on a pivotal, full-time on-site role, reporting directly to the Head of Estates. Your tactical and operational leadership in estates infrastructure, preferably within healthcare, will be your hallmark. We value candidates with excellent financial acumen, outstanding communication skills, and the ability to inspire and lead teams effectively.
The Rewards of Joining Our Team This role offers the chance to work with senior stakeholders and spearhead transformative projects that will create a legacy for years to come. If you thrive in fast-paced environments and have a passion for turning innovative ideas into reality, this is your time to shine.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the Estates Team, collaborating with senior managers to oversee the £20m+ backlog maintenance capital programme across all Trust sites.
- Contribute to both operational and corporate planning, including the Trust’s annual and five-year rolling capital backlog investment plan, while aligning with a government new hospital programme spanning the next 10–15 years.
- Partner with Trust stakeholders to develop project schemes, manage procurement processes, supervise design teams, and ensure accountability for financial performance, timelines, quality, and business case development.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Holds a higher-level qualification in Estates and/or Facilities Management.
- Demonstrates evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD).
- Brings extensive experience in estates infrastructure leadership with a collaborative approach.
Be Part of Something Bigger At Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, you will join a forward-thinking team committed to excellence and innovation. We offer a vibrant workplace culture, career development opportunities, and the chance to be part of projects that truly make a difference.
Are You Ready to Lead and Inspire? Step into a role where your expertise and vision can transform ideas into reality. Apply now and help us create the future of healthcare, one project at a time.
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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