Job summary
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking applications from high calibre senior estates and facilities leaders to join the Group Capital, Estates and Facilities Team.
The Head of Capital post is a key member of the Capital, Estates and Facilities senior management team. The role provides senior leadership for a portfolio of capital programmes and projects across the four Northern Care Alliance footprints of Bury, Rochdale, Fairfield and Salford including the acute and community assets. The post holder will support the development and delivery of capital and transformation programmes and projects by delivering large scale change programmes. The post holder will need to respond proactively to the challenges and opportunities faced by significant strategic service development opportunities within the NCA and across the Care Organisations. The post holder will work closely with colleagues within the Estates and Facilities team as well as senior leaders across the Care Organisations and Executive Team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for building and standardising robust programme and project management arrangements, which includes:
- Mapping a systematic and clear approach for delivery;
- Working with system partners and contractors to agree roles, responsibilities and escalation mechanisms;
- Ensure that the capital programme is actively managed and that linkages between organisations, people, timescales and actions are clear;
- Identifying risks and developing credible and proportionate mitigations that are agreed and owned by the most appropriate leads;
- Ensure that benefits realisation is undertaken with key performance indicators developed for each programme and assessed as part of the monitoring framework;
- Proactively identify issues where escalation may be required in order to unblock constraints or to overcome challenges.
- Horizon scan to ensure that the post holder and the team are kept up to date with best practice and new innovative ways in project management and improvement science.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/
Job description
Job responsibilities
Candidates must have significant senior experience in a complex provider organisation to deliver large scale capital projects. Candidates must be able to demonstrate a strong track record of working with multiple stakeholders to support and deliver strategic and operational plans, and of successfully managing operational performance in a complex and demanding healthcare environment. You will be a proven leader with ability to drive forward change and develop the estates and facilities workforce, culture, strategy and structure. We are looking for candidates with a positive approach to change and a strong focus on their contribution to improving patient experience and outcomes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Candidates must have significant senior experience in a complex provider organisation to deliver large scale capital projects. Candidates must be able to demonstrate a strong track record of working with multiple stakeholders to support and deliver strategic and operational plans, and of successfully managing operational performance in a complex and demanding healthcare environment. You will be a proven leader with ability to drive forward change and develop the estates and facilities workforce, culture, strategy and structure. We are looking for candidates with a positive approach to change and a strong focus on their contribution to improving patient experience and outcomes.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent job related experience/graduate calibre
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner and/or Management of Portfolios (MoP).
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge
Essential
- Management of capital projects
- Knowledge of estates and facilities
- The post holder will require in-depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines e.g. financial management, operational management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over extended period.
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Managing Complex information and problem solving
Experience
Essential
- Project and programme management experience
- Experience of managing and developing multi- disciplinary teams
- Experience of developing alliances and partnerships within and across organisations.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent job related experience/graduate calibre
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner and/or Management of Portfolios (MoP).
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Knowledge
Essential
- Management of capital projects
- Knowledge of estates and facilities
- The post holder will require in-depth professional knowledge in a number of disciplines e.g. financial management, operational management, information systems, staff management acquired through training and experience over extended period.
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Managing Complex information and problem solving
Experience
Essential
- Project and programme management experience
- Experience of managing and developing multi- disciplinary teams
- Experience of developing alliances and partnerships within and across organisations.
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).