Senior Estates and Facilities Manager

Job summary

You will work as part of a small proactive team of NHSBT staff and contractors who are customer focussed and have a can-do attitude, enabling colleagues across the organisation to carry out their duties efficiently and effectively. The Estates & Facilities team makes a real contribution to saving and improving lives and have a major impact on the Donor Experience what could be better than that? You will build lasting relationships with our busy operational staff and fully immerse yourself in leading as well as developing your in-house team. Bringing your enthusiasm, experience, and skills, you will help us improve and oversee contracts for key areas such as planned maintenance, repairs, cleaning, catering, and security. In this role you get to see the fruits of your efforts make a positive impact for the operational teams, so that they have a great place to work from and deliver lifesaving product and services to hospitals. You will be working collaboratively with our customers, and you will be key in supporting the Head of Centre for Barnsley and Departments Heads to maintain a busy and effective main centre, and satellite properties such as donor centres.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will be responsible for managing the effective and efficient provision of a wide range of Estates & Facilities services at the blood centre, and its satellite premises in line with national standards and to meet the needs of customers. Your responsibilities will include: Managing and developing managers, administrators, receptionists, technicians, and support services staff. Ensuring the continuous operation of facilities, which is critical to the provision of products and services that NHSBT supplies to hospitals and patients. Contributing to the strategic development of the estate, including the formulation of NHSBTs Estates Strategy, through proactive engagement with colleagues and customers. Operating a highly responsive, service-orientated environment where teamwork and communication, regulatory and statutory compliance, budgetary control, performance management and business continuity are key to its success. You will occasionally be required to travel and spend time away from base (with prior notice), which will involve working irregular hours and sometimes overnight stays. You will be required to be part of an on-call rota, providing cover which may include weekend and public holiday.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, youll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need. Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.