Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-ALG55
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley, Camberley
- Closing
- 17/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Director of Estates and Facilities
VSM
Job overview
Our Director of Estates and Facilities will provide strategic and operational leadership to our estates infrastructure and facilities services and play a key and visible role within the Trust’s senior management team to drive our ambitions forward.
You will be responsible for delivering safe, responsive, and cost-effective estates and facilitates services for the Trust, with a clear focus on quality and customer service. You will also work closely with colleagues to identify and secure new business opportunities through national projects and collaboration with the private sector, local authority and NHS partners.
We therefore want an ambitious and emotionally-intelligent Director of Estates to play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering spaces and services to achieve our strategic objectives. We are keen to bring in someone who consistently demonstrates a commitment to providing exceptional non-clinical services. You will be able to make effective and efficient use of sustainable resources to support our vision, whilst championing a safe working environment. How you lead the team and bring along with you on the journey will be equally important to us and new colleagues will need to demonstrate a clear commitment to our values and our purpose.
Main duties of the job
To provide strategic and operational leadership to our estates infrastructure and facilities services and play a key and visible role within the Trust's senior management team to drive our ambitions forward.
To be responsible for delivering safe, responsive, and cost effective estates and facilities services for the Trust, with a clear focus on quality and customer service.
You will also work closely with colleagues to identify and secure new business opportunities through national projects and collaboration with the private sector, local authority and NHS partners.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached candidate pack for further details on the main responsibilities and job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Master's level or appropriate bachelor's degree in estates related discipline - engineering or building
- Membership of a professional body, MIET, IHEEM, CIBSE etc
- Project management qualification such a PRINCE2
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial Estates operational management experience either in the NHS or private sector environment
- Experience at either director/deputy director level or senior manager in a complex public or relevant private sector organisation
- Experience in developing strategy e.g. in property management across multiple organisational boundaries which supports the achievement of corporate objectives
- Experience in writing detailed business cases/reports with recommended options to be presented at Trust Board.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within a healthcare or public sector environment
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent problem-solving skills with a resilient and decisive approach. Significant complex budgetary management experience, financial awareness and the ability to meet define budgetary targets for both revenue and capital expenditure.
- Highly developed skills in planning and organisation with the ability to concentrate and work under pressure and balance conflicting demands and competing prioritise.
- Effective negotiator to achieve required outcomes in a complex environment
Desirable criteria
- Innovative approach to estates service provision to give a modern and effective service
- Knowledge of current issues within the NHS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brendan Davies
- Job title
- Head of Executive Search
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07585356982
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