Job summary
Strategic Estates Productivity Leads
2-Year FTC | + excellent benefits
Location: North West or North East/Yorkshire | Full-Time
| 2-Year FTC | National Travel Required
Are you passionate about shaping the future of healthcare
infrastructure? Do you thrive in systems-level transformation and partnership
working?
Main duties of the job
Working in close collaboration with Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), NHS Trusts, Local Authorities, and third-sector partners, you will be at the forefront of embedding CHPs LIFT estate into long-term service models and delivering our national PACE (Productivity Acceleration in Community Estate) programme.
You will play a lead role in:
- Driving estate productivity and improving health outcomes.
- Shaping estate transformation strategies and business cases.
- Ensuring CHPs assets are aligned with regional NHS reform.
- Representing CHP at high-level infrastructure and transformation forums.
- Building and sustaining multi-year delivery pipelines.
You will also work closely with CHPs regional and national leadership to embed estate optimisation within place-based health strategies and system reform agendas.
What Youll Bring
We are looking for strategic thinkers, credible influencers, and experienced transformation leaders who can bring:
- A strong track record of estate or system transformation in the NHS or a comparable setting.
- Deep understanding of NHS estate utilisation, infrastructure planning, and LIFT models.
- High-level communication and stakeholder engagement skillsconfident operating at ICS, Trust, and national levels.
- A values-driven mindset, focused on collaboration, innovation, and system outcomes.
About us
At Community Health Partnerships (CHP), we are redefining the landscape of community-based healthcare. As a wholly owned Department of Health and Social Care company, we manage over 300 high-quality community health buildings and partner with NHS systems to deliver innovative infrastructure solutions. We play a pivotal role in delivering modern, sustainable, and accessible health infrastructure across England. Our mission is simple: enable better care through better spaces.
As part of our growth programme, we are now recruiting two Strategic Estates Productivity Leads (SEPLs). These are key people who will help us steer the NHS estate into a more integrated, efficient, and patient-focused future.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For an informal discussion, contact Jonathan Phillips,
Director at Seymour John Ltd- 07817 988490 and ask for the Candidate
Information Pack.
To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter outlining
your interest and suitability to jp@seymourjohn.com, quoting CHP
Recruitment in the subject line.
Closing Date for Applications-June 15th, 2025
Job description
Job responsibilities
For an informal discussion, contact Jonathan Phillips,
Director at Seymour John Ltd- 07817 988490 and ask for the Candidate
Information Pack.
To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter outlining
your interest and suitability to jp@seymourjohn.com, quoting CHP
Recruitment in the subject line.
Closing Date for Applications-June 15th, 2025
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
- People Management Skills
- Chartered with a professional institution
Experience
Essential
- Essential Knowledge & Experience
- Senior leadership experience across the NHS and its partners, including delivering on national and regional agendas
- Delivery focused, across multiple projects
- Extensive knowledge of the NHS, delivering new partnerships and establishing appropriate resources and response
- Developed and delivered on new service offering in response to customer needs
- Thought leader, able to anticipate future opportunities and develop a response which is embedded with the strategic direction of an organisation
- Develop new partnerships in response to customer ask across public and private sector organisations
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Leadership across infrastructure planning
- In-depth understanding of NHS Long Term Plan and NHS White Paper: Integration and Innovation
- Collaborator and expert in partnership working
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and communication skills
- Experience of delivery at pace in a complex dynamic landscape.
Desirable
- Ability to establish needs and develop deliverable commercial models
- Proven senior management experience
- The ability to make critical decisions
- Good financial understanding
- Leadership Skills
- Customer Interaction
- LIFTCo Knowledge and understanding
- Ability to engage with individuals at all levels across numerous organisations
- Ability to influence the decision- making processes of others
- Problem solving skills
- High degree of self-awareness and consistently looking to improve
- Commercially and financially astute.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
Desirable
- People Management Skills
- Chartered with a professional institution
Experience
Essential
- Essential Knowledge & Experience
- Senior leadership experience across the NHS and its partners, including delivering on national and regional agendas
- Delivery focused, across multiple projects
- Extensive knowledge of the NHS, delivering new partnerships and establishing appropriate resources and response
- Developed and delivered on new service offering in response to customer needs
- Thought leader, able to anticipate future opportunities and develop a response which is embedded with the strategic direction of an organisation
- Develop new partnerships in response to customer ask across public and private sector organisations
- Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Leadership across infrastructure planning
- In-depth understanding of NHS Long Term Plan and NHS White Paper: Integration and Innovation
- Collaborator and expert in partnership working
- Excellent interpersonal, networking and communication skills
- Experience of delivery at pace in a complex dynamic landscape.
Desirable
- Ability to establish needs and develop deliverable commercial models
- Proven senior management experience
- The ability to make critical decisions
- Good financial understanding
- Leadership Skills
- Customer Interaction
- LIFTCo Knowledge and understanding
- Ability to engage with individuals at all levels across numerous organisations
- Ability to influence the decision- making processes of others
- Problem solving skills
- High degree of self-awareness and consistently looking to improve
- Commercially and financially astute.
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.