Estates Manager

Job responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and continual improvement of a Trust-wide estates function, applying expertise in estates and facilities management, capital delivery, and strategic asset planning to support safe, sustainable, and effective healthcare environments.
• Ensure Trust-wide compliance with all relevant statutory, legislative, and regulatory requirements through highly technical oversight of engineering services and infrastructure, acting as the Responsible and Authorised Person across critical systems.
• Lead projects from inception to completion, managing highly complex construction and engineering schemes. Develop, implement and review Trust-wide estates and compliance policies, including those that enable delivery of long-term infrastructure and decarbonisation goals.
• Provide robust internal and external audit and assurance for estates compliance, risk management, performance, and policy implementation across the Trusts estate portfolio.

If you are an innovative, proactive estates professional with excellent technical, leadership, and communication skills, we would like to hear from you.

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• oMaster's Degree / equivalent in an appropriate discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• oTechnical, construction and project management skills
• oHealth and Safety knowledge e.g. Health and Safety and Work regulations
• oLegislation with regard to statutory and Health and Safety with regard to the Estate including COSHH, asbestos and legionella
• oGood working knowledge and understanding of environmental sustainability issues and carbon reduction

Desirable

• oMechanical/electrical engineering qualification

Experience

Essential

• oEstates management background and experience of operational estates management within a hospital environment
• oSignificant experience at a senior management level within an NHS estates/ facilities professional role
• oExperience in planning and financial management
• oExperience of managing teams/people/budgets
• oExperience of working with NHS
• oEstates Hospital Technical Memorandums and Building Notes
• oExperience of development of strategies and polices

Desirable

• oKnowledge of risk management techniques

Skills and Attributes

Essential

• oAbility to use AutoCAD
• oHighly developed and effective negotiating and influencing skills and ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
• oHighly developed management skills and the ability to maximise resource utilisation
• oHighly developed and effective verbal and written communication skills
• oAbility to assimilate analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented. Understanding of risk assessment principles.
• oGood Organisational skills with practical and methodical project planning and ability to manage a number of concurrent elements
• oAble to work under pressure with autonomy at Senior Management level
• oEvidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances.
• oEvidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues
• oEvidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible at each end of the behavioural spectrum.
• oWelsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh

Other

Essential

• oSatisfactory Standard/Enhanced DBS clearance including an/a Adults and Childrens Barred List check (delete as appropriate)
• oGood team player
• oHighly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• oInnovator with a positive attitude and willingness to take responsibility
• oSelf-motivated and has the ability to use own initiative The ability to motivate others to deliver sometimes challenging outcomes.
• oAbility to work within a challenging environment Willingness to participate in continued professional development.
• oAbility to travel between sites in a timely manner.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).