Job summary
The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We're delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We're looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.
Main duties of the job
We're looking for an Estates Senior Lead to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare facilities. As part of our forward-thinking estates and facilities management team, you'll lead on key programmes that drive transformation, innovation, and value for money across planning, commissioning, and service delivery.
What you'll do
- Lead Estates Services during design meetings, business case reviews, and operational readiness activities
- Develop guidance and support products for the New Hospital Programme in collaboration with stakeholders
- Work with the wider teams and build evidence-based operating models for new hospitals
- Drive excellence in estates and facilities management while building technical expertise and subject matter knowledge
About us
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visithttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
For more information on the NHP programme
Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.(Engineering/ Building Services)
- Corporate Member of recognised professional organisation such as CIBSE, IET, IHEEM, BIFM
Desirable
- Post graduate Management qualification, eg. PgCert or PgDip. MBA in Business Management
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate significant senior management experience gained in hospital or public sector environment
- Demonstrate significant senior management experience in a complex building services environment
- Specialist knowledge of Estates management, building construction and engineering installations
- Understanding of specialised practices, specific Estates, building and engineering installations and expertise within the specialism, e.g. Disability, Discrimination Act, Health & Safety, Health Technical Memoranda's, energy conservation
- Experience in delivering new initiatives
Abilities & Skills
Essential
- Produce reports and documents to identify and propose recommendations and solutions
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Provide specialist engineering related advice to others
- Ability to analyse highly complex facts and make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Be able to negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.(Engineering/ Building Services)
- Corporate Member of recognised professional organisation such as CIBSE, IET, IHEEM, BIFM
Desirable
- Post graduate Management qualification, eg. PgCert or PgDip. MBA in Business Management
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate significant senior management experience gained in hospital or public sector environment
- Demonstrate significant senior management experience in a complex building services environment
- Specialist knowledge of Estates management, building construction and engineering installations
- Understanding of specialised practices, specific Estates, building and engineering installations and expertise within the specialism, e.g. Disability, Discrimination Act, Health & Safety, Health Technical Memoranda's, energy conservation
- Experience in delivering new initiatives
Abilities & Skills
Essential
- Produce reports and documents to identify and propose recommendations and solutions
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Provide specialist engineering related advice to others
- Ability to analyse highly complex facts and make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Be able to negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
