Job summary
The post holder will be responsible for strategic and operational management for the Estates Operational team across the Group in which includes United Lincolnshire teaching Hospital NHS Trust sites and Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust Sites.
As part of a dynamic estates team operating within the United Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Trust Group you will provide day-to-day leadership, line management responsibilities, strategic and operations project management and co-ordination of a number of complex and Acute and Community Properties which will impact across the Trusts Group Sites. To ensure that our services, practices and resources are effectively applied in order to help deliver Estates Maintenance Services within timescale and to budget.
The post-holder will play a proactive part in the senior management team and be responsible for liaising with a range of service leads (both clinical and non-clinical), staff, service users and external stakeholders, in order to ensure full engagement and success of all Estates delivered services.
Responsible for compiling business plan, developing strategy for area of activity, ensuring implementation and that performance targets, strategic objectives are met; contributes to corporate policies and strategy.
Main duties of the job
- To be a member of the Estates & Facilities senior operational management team, participating in the overall management of the Directorate's activities and the achievement of the corporate objectives of LCHG.
- Develop and implement effective channels and systems of communication, including written and verbal, formal and informal, so as to ensure that Corporate and relevant Departmental information is disseminated in a timely and appropriate manner within the maintenance team.
- Responsible for developing and planning complex works programmes and activities where there is a requirement for analysing and comparing a wide range of complex options to ensure that time and resources are effectively managed and allocated to provide a value for money service
- To ensure that all LCHG Policies and Procedures, which relate to governance, risk and CQC standards, are implemented within the facilities department, followed by all staff, and are regularly audited.
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Provide effective leadership, influencing and motivating functional managers and the management of staff, which promotes high performance standards, both individually and as a team, in the achievement of LCHG objectives and priorities.
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To act as budget holder for Estates budgets.
Please see Job Description for full details
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Dont miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, or equivalent, plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses, and experience to masters or equivalent level in an engineering or building related subject
Desirable
- Management Qualifications to Diploma level
- DP/RP/AP training and experience
- Accredited H&S qualifications e.g NEEBOSH, IOSH
- Evidence of continued professional development
Previous Experience
Essential
- Proven Estates management Experience in a senior level in a complex organisation, to include staff management/ supervisory responsibilities and change management in a unionised environment
- High level of regulatory knowledge, skills and experience in maintenance services
- CAFM and strategic skills, knowledge and experience in the effective development and management of assets and PPM strategies
- High level of understanding and management of Finances, in particular SFI's within a Healthcare organisation
- Procurement experience in the development of specifications, tenders in estates services and contract management
- Broad and high level experience in Regulations, statutory, mandatory and best practices for estates maintenance services
Desirable
- Previous NHS Acute Hospital experience, including good level of HTM/HBN and other DoH Guidance
- Confident in the use of Computer software packages such as Excel, Work, Power Point
- Experience and knowledge of CAFM Systems
Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills with a particular emphasis on influencing and negotiating to manage and deliver contractual SLA compliance, exercising diplomacy and tact in sensitive situations
- Excellent prioritisation skills to effectively manage competing and/or conflicting demands
- Ability to analyse and solve complex operational challenges
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Ability to interpret complex legislative information and technical specifications and apply policy and/or service development.
- Ability to manage large revenue budgets covering physical assets and projects across multiple sites.
- Excellent Project management and negotiation skills
- Excellent presentation skills, confident communicator and high quality written reporting skills
Desirable
- Well understood financial management and budget understanding
- Well-developed IT skills.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Able to cope with a fast moving challenging role.
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within both the public and private sectors.
- Ability to engage with staff, local communities and service users/customers as part of a programme of work to deliver better results.
- Demonstrably able to work in a fluid and highly dynamic environment.
- Able to work with a great degree of flexibility and adaptability.
- Extremely diligent in the processing of complex information to ensure accuracy and efficacy.
- Ability to deal with frequent periods of intense concentration.
- Customer focused and driven on by fulfilment in reaching high standards/quality.
- Flexible, pragmatic and innovative approach to problems and working practices.
- Empathetic and willing to use a range of communication skills to achieve goals.
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as plan and organise own and team's workload.
- Able to perform and deliver under pressure of competing deadlines/difficult circumstances.
Desirable
- Good leadership skills and ability to manage multi-disciplinary design teams.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, or equivalent, plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses, and experience to masters or equivalent level in an engineering or building related subject
Desirable
- Management Qualifications to Diploma level
- DP/RP/AP training and experience
- Accredited H&S qualifications e.g NEEBOSH, IOSH
- Evidence of continued professional development
Previous Experience
Essential
- Proven Estates management Experience in a senior level in a complex organisation, to include staff management/ supervisory responsibilities and change management in a unionised environment
- High level of regulatory knowledge, skills and experience in maintenance services
- CAFM and strategic skills, knowledge and experience in the effective development and management of assets and PPM strategies
- High level of understanding and management of Finances, in particular SFI's within a Healthcare organisation
- Procurement experience in the development of specifications, tenders in estates services and contract management
- Broad and high level experience in Regulations, statutory, mandatory and best practices for estates maintenance services
Desirable
- Previous NHS Acute Hospital experience, including good level of HTM/HBN and other DoH Guidance
- Confident in the use of Computer software packages such as Excel, Work, Power Point
- Experience and knowledge of CAFM Systems
Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills with a particular emphasis on influencing and negotiating to manage and deliver contractual SLA compliance, exercising diplomacy and tact in sensitive situations
- Excellent prioritisation skills to effectively manage competing and/or conflicting demands
- Ability to analyse and solve complex operational challenges
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Ability to interpret complex legislative information and technical specifications and apply policy and/or service development.
- Ability to manage large revenue budgets covering physical assets and projects across multiple sites.
- Excellent Project management and negotiation skills
- Excellent presentation skills, confident communicator and high quality written reporting skills
Desirable
- Well understood financial management and budget understanding
- Well-developed IT skills.
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Able to cope with a fast moving challenging role.
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within both the public and private sectors.
- Ability to engage with staff, local communities and service users/customers as part of a programme of work to deliver better results.
- Demonstrably able to work in a fluid and highly dynamic environment.
- Able to work with a great degree of flexibility and adaptability.
- Extremely diligent in the processing of complex information to ensure accuracy and efficacy.
- Ability to deal with frequent periods of intense concentration.
- Customer focused and driven on by fulfilment in reaching high standards/quality.
- Flexible, pragmatic and innovative approach to problems and working practices.
- Empathetic and willing to use a range of communication skills to achieve goals.
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as plan and organise own and team's workload.
- Able to perform and deliver under pressure of competing deadlines/difficult circumstances.
Desirable
- Good leadership skills and ability to manage multi-disciplinary design teams.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group
Lincoln County Hospital
Lincoln
LN2 5QY
Employer's website
https://www.ulh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
