Head of Facilities

Job summary

Professionally accountable for all aspects of Facilities Management Services for Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd, including soft FM and general maintenance services. Responsible for ensuring the provision of a safe, clean and supportive environment for patients is maintained in accordance with any statutory or mandatory requirements.

Responsible for ensuring all associated policy and procedures are developed, reviewed and implemented as required

The successful candidate will be joining our organisation due to the retirement of the current postholder, at an incredibly exciting time.

CHS is an exceptional place to work with many amazing teams of hard working and dedicated staff, delivering high standards of estates, facilities, clinical engineering and procurement services to Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and other customers.

The Trust itself is currently reconfiguring its services, supported by £196.5m of capital funding from the Department of Health and Social Care to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital (CRH) and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI). This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale, Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come.

Main duties of the job

• Support and assist the Managing Director Calderdale and Huddersfield Solutions Ltd with the development and implementation of medium and long term Estate and Facilities Strategies.
• Ensure a continuous improvement culture is developed and propose improvement strategies to enhance value and patient experience.
• Development and implementation of short, medium and long term operational policy and strategy in accordance with current and future proposed statutory, regulatory and NHS guidance.
• Provide professional and technical advice for the development and implementation of new service proposals.
• Responsible for the delivery of all facilities services including in-house and contracted services ensuring the delivery of quality and value driven services.
• Responsible for the delivery of Switchboard, General Office, Car Park and Cash management services
• Responsible for managing all facilities services risk related elements including, Infection Prevention and Control, Hazardous Waste Management, Transportation of Dangerous Goods, Food Safety Management, Health and Safety, COSHH and governance. Responsible for managing appropriately qualified staff that are appointed as authorised and competent persons as defined in the associated HTM or regulatory framework.
• Responsible for the management of all facilities services related contracts and service level agreements.

About us

At CHS we understand the differences in delivering our services in complex environments and we have a flexible approach to meet the needs of our customers. Our Estates and Facilities management functions alongside our Medical Engineering, decontamination and procurement service, provides the following:

• Fully managed estate and building maintenance
• Medical engineering/equipment maintenance/ decontamination
• Procurement advice, guidance and governance
• Capital project management
• Transport
• Grounds maintenance.
• Portering
• Catering
• Cleaning (including robot and deep cleaning)