Job summary
This challenging and rewarding role offers a fantastic opportunity for you to join our successful and well regarded management team here, with your own professional accountability to the Director of Estates & Facilities for delivering a high quality, pro-active and cost effective property management service across all our sites.
Main duties of the job
Post holder is responsible for the estate - owned, leased, occupied & used by Frimley Healthcare NHS FT - to ensure the sound property & asset management under the Director Estates & Facilities. Lead the Property Team responsible for that management, ensuring they can influence the strategic direction & co-ordinate & manage short, medium & long term projects that result from this strategy. Lead lead the space management team responsible for the appropriate implementation of Trust policy and consider requests for additional & repurposed space, monitoring utilisation & negotiating the release of space/assets with services where they don't represent value for money.
"FHFT Estate" is regarded as a facility used by FHFT for provision of clinical & non-clinical services whether it is owned, has a legal agreement with a landlord or an informal agreement to use as part of a wider contract or commission.
Post holder is responsible for providing a comprehensive holistic service & liaising closely with Directorates, Finance & all teams within the FHFT Estates & Facilities Management Directorate ensuring projects are delivered to agreed budgets & timescales.
Post holder will develop & maintain links with relevant external organisations including, but not limited to, ICS / ICB, NHS Property Services CSU & other Healthcare organisations seeking to occupy relevant property & professional organisations including property agencies, District Valuers, landlords & Local Government Agencies.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to job description/ person specification attached for full list of tasks and responsibilities of role .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to job description/ person specification attached for full list of tasks and responsibilities of role .
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent.
- Post graduate level knowledge / experience in project management.
- Professional qualification (Chartered Surveyor or Engineer)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing projects, including responsibility for external contractors and consultants.
- Previous management experience, minimum 2 years.
- Experience in preparing heads of terms and leases.
- Property Valuation and Development Appraisal experience.
- Experience of co-ordinating activity in a multi-agency setting.
- Experience of managing an estate portfolio and programme of capital investment.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of NHS structures, challenges and policy.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of project management.
- Broad understanding of healthcare provision complexities.
- Good budget management skills.
- Contract and capital financial negotiation and management.
- Ability to work under pressure and achieve deadlines.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
- Ability to think and act strategically including developing and managing plans and programmes.
- Ability to influence policy & practices.
- Independent thinker, with a flexible approach.
- Able to communicate at all levels.
- Must be self-motivated, able to inspire and influence others and work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Ability to work with uncertainty and challenging priorities.
- Must be comfortable with detailed legal, financial, statutory and operational information.
- Ability to collect, collate and critically assess information.
- Ability to organise and monitor the work of others.
- Proactive in problem solving.
- Highly organised - good team working skills at both operational and strategic levels.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Persuasive and able to build consensus.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislative requirements and NHS Estates guidance.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work Cross-site.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent.
- Post graduate level knowledge / experience in project management.
- Professional qualification (Chartered Surveyor or Engineer)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing projects, including responsibility for external contractors and consultants.
- Previous management experience, minimum 2 years.
- Experience in preparing heads of terms and leases.
- Property Valuation and Development Appraisal experience.
- Experience of co-ordinating activity in a multi-agency setting.
- Experience of managing an estate portfolio and programme of capital investment.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of NHS structures, challenges and policy.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good knowledge of project management.
- Broad understanding of healthcare provision complexities.
- Good budget management skills.
- Contract and capital financial negotiation and management.
- Ability to work under pressure and achieve deadlines.
- Computer literate.
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
- Ability to think and act strategically including developing and managing plans and programmes.
- Ability to influence policy & practices.
- Independent thinker, with a flexible approach.
- Able to communicate at all levels.
- Must be self-motivated, able to inspire and influence others and work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Ability to work with uncertainty and challenging priorities.
- Must be comfortable with detailed legal, financial, statutory and operational information.
- Ability to collect, collate and critically assess information.
- Ability to organise and monitor the work of others.
- Proactive in problem solving.
- Highly organised - good team working skills at both operational and strategic levels.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Self-motivated and enthusiastic.
- Persuasive and able to build consensus.
Desirable
- Knowledge of legislative requirements and NHS Estates guidance.
Special Requirements
Essential
- Ability to work Cross-site.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
