Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment opportunities available to internal candidates)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 361-6936823
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/02/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/02/2025
Employer heading
Property & PFI Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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 Property and PFI Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Estates & Facilities Division is looking to recruit a Property and PFI Manager, you will report directly to the Strategic Programme Manager and will work closely with procurement and colleagues within the division. You will help with the division's development of resilient integrated contracts.
As the Property and PFI Manager for the Estates & Facilities Division, you will be a key senior member of the EFM team, shaping and helping to develop and deliver new contracts to deliver high quality services across the organisation.
You will support the successfully responsible for the lease and license management, negotiations with tenants, landlords & solicitors, assisting with the management of the Trust portfolio with reference to existing leases, licenses, and proposed acquisitions.
You will be an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills to support the Directorate of Estates and Facilities.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The Property Services Manager reports to the Strategic Programme Manager and shall be accountable for delivering an agreed annual programme of work in relation to the Trusts’ property functions as well as supporting the Strategy & Commercial team in delivering the Estate Strategy.
You shall, where required, deputies for the Strategic Programme Manager and represent the Commercial team in internal and external meetings.
Provide expert specialist professional advice on all aspects of property management including property technical surveying including responsibilities relating contracted and contractual maintenance, repair, refurbishment and restoration and legislation.
Be responsible for coordinating all aspects of the agreed transition and handover process for Hertford County Hospital, ensuring seamless continuation of safe provision of healthcare and support service operations as the PFI arrangements come to a close in 2033.
Lead the planning, execution and tracking of agreed PFI life cycle projects to ensure they are complete, compliant, commissioned, and certified and that they meet the contractual and expiry obligations for condition at expiry and meet future needs of the hospital.
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
- Relevant educational and professional knowledge to degree level
- Significant relevant experience in asset management, property surveying, construction and/or related estate management.
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate courses (e.g., Management, Project management and/or property, commissioning and health care premises
- Additional project management qualification e.g. Association Management PMQ
Desirable criteria
- Incorporated level or equivalent membership of a recognised professional institute (e.g., Assoc RICS, RICS, CIOB, CIAT, IHEEM, BIFM, CIBSE).
- Full Membership of a recognised professional institute (e.g., RICS,CIOB,CIAT,IHEEM,BIFM,CIBSE)
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Property Transactions
- Project Management
- Delivering projects within time/cost/quality framework
- Negotiating, Change Management and Conflict Resolution
- Financial Management
- Building Surveying
- Property Maintenance agreements
- Space Utilisation and management
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of health specific technical standards HTMs, HBNs etc.
- Working knowledge of the Landlord & tenant Act 1954
- Experience in lease interpretation, re-gearing, deeds of rectification/variation
- Act sensitively to staff relocation because of selling properties
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Communicate complex/technical information in a clear and non-threatening manner
- Present findings to groups and offer reassurance where the meeting may be charged or challenging
- Ability to reconcile conflicting views where there may be significant barriers to understanding or acceptance
- Proven ability to deal sensitively but fairly with difficult circumstances
- Acts as a role model empowering transparency, inclusivity, honesty and objectivity
- Developed negotiating and persuasion skills
- Clear thinking, confident decision maker, able to quickly absorb and analyse information presented
- Able to exchange complex technical & project related information with specialists and contractors and to communicate that information with non-specialist user groups
Desirable criteria
- Thorough knowledge of property legislation, regulation and best practice, in particular in a public sector setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current developments within the NHS
- Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation
- Knowledge of NHS Standards of Cleanliness
- Expert knowledge of contracting systems and processes
Desirable criteria
- Good working knowledge of HTM’s, HBN’s and other NHS guidance
- NEC4 and other contractual arrangements
- Suitable IT skills i.e CAD, Microsoft office including Project, AutoCAD and BIM software knowledge and implementation experience.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caterina Ghin
- Job title
- Strategic Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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