Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Director of Estates and Facilities at Newham University Hospital within Barts Health NHS Trust. With a turnover of £1.4 billion and a workforce of around 16,000, Barts Health is the largest NHS trust in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. The Trust's five hospitals - St Bartholomew's Hospital in the City, including the Barts Heart Centre, The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, Newham University Hospital in Plaistow, Whipps Cross University Hospital in Leytonstone and Mile End - deliver high quality compassionate care to the 2.5 million people of East London and beyond.
Main duties of the job
The Director of Estates and Facilities will be accountable for ensuring the successful site-wide operational delivery and performance of the Hard FM and Soft FM functions at Newham University Hospital as well as ensure that strategically the hospital estate can respond to clinical needs.
Embedded with the Hospital Executive Team, the candidate must possess excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to demonstrate previous experience in working at a senior level in complex multi-disciplinary estates and facilities environment.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Management of operational estates services for maintenance and development of Estates, facilities and property
- Management of non-skilled, skilled and professional staff
- Management of multi-disciplinary teams and committee working
- Maintenance & project planning
- Financial management and analytical abilities
- Business case and report writing which contributes to presentations to Board level
- Experience of participating in on-call rotas in a complex healthcare environment
- Experience in procuring and delivering projects and contracts, via a range of procurement routes
- Experience of multi-agency partnership working
- Experience of undertaking AP/RP roles in line with HTMs
- Experience of managing building project teams, developing design briefs, service specifications, appointing and managing professional advisors and consultants.
- Experience of CAFM, BMS and CAD design systems
- Experience of managing formal (legal) contract disputes
Skills
Essential
- High level of communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective communication, presentational and reporting skills
- Highly developed analytical and judgemental skills
- High degree of hand to eye coordination and sensory skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience operating at Senior level, Deputy Director level or Head of Service
- Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on assets, resources, services & staff and developing new ways of working
- Reporting to and working at Board/Committee level
- Positively managing staff including performance and personal development. This includes statutory legislation and DH mandatory and good practice guidance
- Budget management (Capital/revenue pay & non pay)
- Preparing of business cases to support investment/disinvestment plans and securing approval of external organisations where appropriate
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
- Highly developed technical knowledge and appreciation of Estates services
- Proven track record of managing and delivering projects to time and financial constraints
- IT computer literate familiar with Microsoft packages and Awareness of the wider DH/NHS environment, ability to interpret policy and consider impact on asset, estate and FM services
- Active utilisation of estates & facilities networks/ forums
- Evidence of delivering innovative design solutions applied to the estate
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of land and property, procurement and contract law
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in construction or engineering subject
- Chartered Member of relevant professional body
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Masters Degree or equivalent healthcare specialist experience
Desirable
- Relevant Post Grad qualification
Other
Essential
- Ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to Trust values & Core Behaviours
- Effective leadership and motivational qualities
- Confident and participative team leader and player
- Effective communicator particularly at senior manager levels
- Ability to think and manage strategically and operationally
- Self-motivated with a high level of focus, drive and energy
- Ability to maintain detached, professional, impersonal, successful relationships
- Maintains high standards of professionalism and confidentiality
- Ability to challenge the status quo
- High productivity
- Ability to work under pressure and constantly achieve within tight timescales
- Prioritise workload
- Ability to demonstrate/balance understanding of corporate and well as individual goals
- Resilience and integrity
- Motivated to seek personal learning and career development
- Alignment to Trust Values and Core Behaviours
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Management of operational estates services for maintenance and development of Estates, facilities and property
- Management of non-skilled, skilled and professional staff
- Management of multi-disciplinary teams and committee working
- Maintenance & project planning
- Financial management and analytical abilities
- Business case and report writing which contributes to presentations to Board level
- Experience of participating in on-call rotas in a complex healthcare environment
- Experience in procuring and delivering projects and contracts, via a range of procurement routes
- Experience of multi-agency partnership working
- Experience of undertaking AP/RP roles in line with HTMs
- Experience of managing building project teams, developing design briefs, service specifications, appointing and managing professional advisors and consultants.
- Experience of CAFM, BMS and CAD design systems
- Experience of managing formal (legal) contract disputes
Skills
Essential
- High level of communication and interpersonal skills
- Effective communication, presentational and reporting skills
- Highly developed analytical and judgemental skills
- High degree of hand to eye coordination and sensory skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant experience operating at Senior level, Deputy Director level or Head of Service
- Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on assets, resources, services & staff and developing new ways of working
- Reporting to and working at Board/Committee level
- Positively managing staff including performance and personal development. This includes statutory legislation and DH mandatory and good practice guidance
- Budget management (Capital/revenue pay & non pay)
- Preparing of business cases to support investment/disinvestment plans and securing approval of external organisations where appropriate
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
- Highly developed technical knowledge and appreciation of Estates services
- Proven track record of managing and delivering projects to time and financial constraints
- IT computer literate familiar with Microsoft packages and Awareness of the wider DH/NHS environment, ability to interpret policy and consider impact on asset, estate and FM services
- Active utilisation of estates & facilities networks/ forums
- Evidence of delivering innovative design solutions applied to the estate
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of land and property, procurement and contract law
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in construction or engineering subject
- Chartered Member of relevant professional body
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Masters Degree or equivalent healthcare specialist experience
Desirable
- Relevant Post Grad qualification
Other
Essential
- Ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to Trust values & Core Behaviours
- Effective leadership and motivational qualities
- Confident and participative team leader and player
- Effective communicator particularly at senior manager levels
- Ability to think and manage strategically and operationally
- Self-motivated with a high level of focus, drive and energy
- Ability to maintain detached, professional, impersonal, successful relationships
- Maintains high standards of professionalism and confidentiality
- Ability to challenge the status quo
- High productivity
- Ability to work under pressure and constantly achieve within tight timescales
- Prioritise workload
- Ability to demonstrate/balance understanding of corporate and well as individual goals
- Resilience and integrity
- Motivated to seek personal learning and career development
- Alignment to Trust Values and Core Behaviours
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
