Job overview

The position of Deputy Director of the Environment plays a crucial role within the Estates & Facilities Directors' leadership team, directly contributing to the Trust's overarching goals of quality, efficiency, and effectiveness. This role entails the comprehensive management of the Facilities and Property function, ensuring that services are compliant with all legislative requirements. The Deputy Director is tasked with promoting continuous improvement within the directorate, thereby guaranteeing a high-quality, transparent, and reportable service delivery. 

Main duties of the job

The Deputy Director's integration with senior personnel throughout the Trust is essential to align work ethics and objectives, ensuring that the Trust's strategies are effectively realized. Representing the Trust in key external bodies, the Deputy Director also plays a significant role in driving transformation for Facilities Services within the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Integrated Care Board (ICB).

Responsible for driving change within the department to ensure the service is fully compliant with regulation, legislation and guidance by implementing systems and process to monitor and measure compliance and performance.

Provide leadership with regards to reviewing current delivery standards for compliance against industry standards and develop, then implement, an action plan to correct any areas of non-compliance

Responsible for developing highly complex business cases for presentation to Board as necessary to support service improvement recommendations. 

Responsible for the development the Directorate’s Business Plan (Facilities, Property, SSD) and ensure that the objectives are achieved within timescale and budget.

Apply professional expertise to strengthen the intelligent client-side capability and capacity to maintain the relationship and contract performance with all contract partners and lead contract and performance reviews ensuring the contractors meet their day-to-day responsibilities plus meet the need for effective strategic planning

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff.  This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan.  All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.