Job summary
Chief Infrastructure and Redevelopment Officer
We are seeking to appoint an inspirational, visible leader able to play a critical role in enabling the delivery of excellent healthcare services by taking responsibility for the executive leadership and strategic direction of the Space & Place Directorate, responsible for the effective maintenance of the Trust estate and the provision of all on-site facilities and services required to provide world class paediatric care.
This is a critical leadership position overseeing a broad portfolio and is responsible for leading the Trust estate capital deployment, major capital projects, development and implementation of a site masterplan, aligned to the Trusts strategic intent and objectives, ensuring compliance with regulatory and governance standards.
The role ensures the delivery of a safe, sustainable, and future-ready built environment that supports world-class patient care, research, and education.
You will provide leadership and strategic input for the management of the Trust's estates, facilities and capital investment programme and will lead on the development of the Trust's transformation plan of its overall estates footprint and advance solutions which enable the cost-effective delivery of health services.
Main duties of the job
- Contribute to the development of the strategic direction of the Trust and wider local health economy as a member of the Trust Board, determining and upholding the Trust's values and standards.
- As a member of the Trust Executive Senior Leadership Team, support decision-making and planning for all aspects of the Trust's business
- Participate in the Executive on-call rota, ensuring effective representation of the Trust and decision making in critical on-call scenarios.
- Positively contribute to the development of corporate policy and decision-making activity, and the successful team working of the Board of Directors and Executive Management Team.
- Provides highly visible, executive leadership for the estates, facilities, redevelopment, and capital investment portfolio.
- Is Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for several Trust workstreams aligned with the Trust Strategy - to include Sustainability and the build of the Children's Cancer Centre.
About us
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we'll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women's networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification document which provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification document which provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
Person Specification
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent experience of working at a very senior level in relevant field.
- Professional accreditation or registration with a relevant body
- Post graduate qualification in relevant field or extensive comparable experience
- Strong evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
GOSH Values and Culture
Essential
- Our Always values oAlways welcoming oAlways helpful oAlways expert oAlways one team
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Significant recent board level experience in an acute healthcare organisation or comparable healthcare setting.
- Significant experience of leading, managing and developing high performing teams to deliver strategic objectives.
- Professional background with specialist knowledge in more than one of the following areas: construction, engineering, E A estates (hard FM) management, management of capital investment
- Demonstrable track record of operational achievement
- Significant experience of developing teams in terms of skills and capability building, resourcing, talent management and succession planning, establishing a mentoring and coaching, learning environment.
- Extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and management
- Evidence of significant experience in leading and influencing multi professional groups to deliver cross system change and or improvement
- Keen understanding of Health Inequalities, and able to identify service impacts, with programmes to support improvements
- Successful delivery of organisational change
- Considerable experience acting as Senior Responsible Officer (SRO)
Desirable
- Experience of expanding or developing new commercial services or programmes in a complex and large -scale environment
- Successful track record of negotiating high -value service agreements
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong commercial and business acumen with ability to negotiate and lead major investment programmes
- Considerable knowledge of risk management and governance within a regulated environment
- Leads with strong integrity and is credible
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- A passion for delivering real, measurable change not just at project level but nationally and systemically
Person Specification
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent experience of working at a very senior level in relevant field.
- Professional accreditation or registration with a relevant body
- Post graduate qualification in relevant field or extensive comparable experience
- Strong evidence of continuous personal and professional development.
GOSH Values and Culture
Essential
- Our Always values oAlways welcoming oAlways helpful oAlways expert oAlways one team
Experience/Knowledge
Essential
- Significant recent board level experience in an acute healthcare organisation or comparable healthcare setting.
- Significant experience of leading, managing and developing high performing teams to deliver strategic objectives.
- Professional background with specialist knowledge in more than one of the following areas: construction, engineering, E A estates (hard FM) management, management of capital investment
- Demonstrable track record of operational achievement
- Significant experience of developing teams in terms of skills and capability building, resourcing, talent management and succession planning, establishing a mentoring and coaching, learning environment.
- Extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and management
- Evidence of significant experience in leading and influencing multi professional groups to deliver cross system change and or improvement
- Keen understanding of Health Inequalities, and able to identify service impacts, with programmes to support improvements
- Successful delivery of organisational change
- Considerable experience acting as Senior Responsible Officer (SRO)
Desirable
- Experience of expanding or developing new commercial services or programmes in a complex and large -scale environment
- Successful track record of negotiating high -value service agreements
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong commercial and business acumen with ability to negotiate and lead major investment programmes
- Considerable knowledge of risk management and governance within a regulated environment
- Leads with strong integrity and is credible
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients
- Demonstrable commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.
- A passion for delivering real, measurable change not just at project level but nationally and systemically
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).
