Job overview

Facilities Team Leader

Division: Estates and Facilities

Care Group: Soft FM

Band: 4 

Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum

Interview Date: 27th February 2025

 We are recruiting for a Facilities Team Leader who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

To Lead the day-to-day operational services of the Medway NHS Foundation Trusts Waste & Transport Departments. The post holder will be designated an area/areas of main management responsibility, but will be required to maintain operational knowledge of all the services detailed below so that to ensure smooth transitions between Services, and to provide cover during leave and absenteeism.

The Facilities Team Leader will be the first point of contact which will require high visibility to all users of the services and the staff/teams that they lead. 

Main duties of the job

High level of IT skill is required on programs such as Excel, Microsoft 11, Word.

Excellent written communication skills including the ability to produce reports, databases, spreadsheets.

Strong communication skills including the ability to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions.

Appropriate assertiveness skills, proven negotiation skills and an ability to formulate and verbalise views.

A strong sense of personal and team accountability with an understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority.

Ability to manage deadlines within available resources.

Ability to adapt to challenging and changing solutions, and able to lead colleagues through stressful situations.

Flexibility –– tact

Attention to detail – accuracy

Highly self -motivated – committed

Able to work independently with good organisation skills

Ability to deal with challenging people, understanding their views and communicate in a non-confrontational manner using tact and diplomacy

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B – Bold

E – Every person counts

S – Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.