Strategic Head of Facilities & Property Services

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

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Job summary

The Facilities team is seeking to appoint a Strategic Head of Facilities & Property Services. This post is ideal if you have both broad and explicit content knowledge of facilities departments within the NHS, and will add value by integrating this with exposure to topical organisation issues to provide relevant insights or feedback.

You should be able to understand the operational impact of strategic plans, create a network across the directorate and wider Trust and in turn allow them to gauge the views and opinions of front line staff and managers, and act as the key point of contact for the directorate with external service providers.

In embracing the Trust's core values, you will become a champion for:

  • Leading and driving change across the organisation
  • Providing financial governance across the Trust for transformation and modernisation projects.
  • Engaging with the Trust's senior leaders to promote best practice strategies
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion

Main duties of the job

In short, you will connect dots across projects, people, and departments to improve decision-making and efficiency.

Your main duties will be to:

  • Provide strategic and professional leadership to the management, development and efficient utilisation of the Trust's Estate and Facilities incorporating national requirements.
  • To lead strategic and operational management of the Directorate across The Princess Alexandra Hospital.
  • To ensure that the effective delivery of the directorates functions are undertaken in accordance with national standards and recognised industry best practice.
  • To provide a safe, secure and high quality patient and staff environments in the Trusts facilities and to other organisations with whom the Trust has third party occupants through SLAs.
  • Overseeing diversity and culture initiatives
  • Reviewing departmental structure, identifying any gaps and filling them
  • Aligning internal processes
  • Responsible for efficient management of the facilities budgets, including related service contracts with both commercial and NHS providers.
  • Exercising budgetary control ensuring expenditure is constrained within allocation, taking remedial action as necessary. This may directly impact staffing resources and roles and include resource rationalisation.

About us

The Facilities department encompasses the domestics, portering, transport, post room, accommodation, catering, laundry & linen and housekeeping teams with approximately 280 staff. There is a middle management team for each of the departments and a small admin team to assist with the day to day tasks.

It is a very diverse and busy department with a group of dedicated and caring staff who support each other.

Date posted

24 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£60,983 to £70,536 a year per annum inclusive of high cost area supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-5672463-ASL

Job locations

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification, available to download at any time.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Educated to degree or equivalent extensive relevant experience
  • Specialist knowledge of capital, estates & facilities legislation and statutory, mandatory and best practice case studies
  • Proven knowledge and skills in project management, business planning and quality process

Desirable

  • Detailed knowledge of the NHS guidelines and procedures
  • Project management qualifications, managing successful programmes

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in operational and strategic facilities management at a senior management level
  • Experience in development of monitoring systems, policies and procedures

Desirable

  • Extensive facilities management experience within a hospital environment
  • NHS experience at a senior management level

skills & knowledge

Essential

  • Can demonstrate good people management, leadership & person skills. Ability to plan work load and have an organised approach to filing data
  • Experience with tendering and procurement of services, including the management of contractors and quality assurance systems

Desirable

  • Previous knowledge of health sector facilities management.

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Excellent strategic thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
  • Excellent communicator - both verbal and written

Desirable

  • Ability to multitask
Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Educated to degree or equivalent extensive relevant experience
  • Specialist knowledge of capital, estates & facilities legislation and statutory, mandatory and best practice case studies
  • Proven knowledge and skills in project management, business planning and quality process

Desirable

  • Detailed knowledge of the NHS guidelines and procedures
  • Project management qualifications, managing successful programmes

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience in operational and strategic facilities management at a senior management level
  • Experience in development of monitoring systems, policies and procedures

Desirable

  • Extensive facilities management experience within a hospital environment
  • NHS experience at a senior management level

skills & knowledge

Essential

  • Can demonstrate good people management, leadership & person skills. Ability to plan work load and have an organised approach to filing data
  • Experience with tendering and procurement of services, including the management of contractors and quality assurance systems

Desirable

  • Previous knowledge of health sector facilities management.

Personal qualities

Essential

  • Excellent strategic thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
  • Excellent communicator - both verbal and written

Desirable

  • Ability to multitask

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.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Associate director of estates and facilities

Simon Hughes

simon.hughes20@nhs.net

01279444455

Date posted

24 October 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£60,983 to £70,536 a year per annum inclusive of high cost area supplement

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

292-5672463-ASL

Job locations

Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QX


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