Job requirements
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Essential
27 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
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
- Previous Experience
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
- Previous Experience
High level of regulatory knowledge, skills and experience in maintenance services
- Previous Experience
CAFM and strategic skills, knowledge and experience in the effective development and management of assets and PPM strategies
- Previous Experience
High level of understanding and management of Finances, in particular SFI's within a Healthcare organisation
- Previous Experience
Procurement experience in the development of specifications, tenders in estates services and contract management
- Previous Experience
Broad and high level experience in Regulations, statutory, mandatory and best practices for estates maintenance services
- Specific Requirements
Able to cope with a fast moving challenging role.
- Specific Requirements
Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within both the public and private sectors.
- Specific Requirements
Ability to engage with staff, local communities and service users/customers as part of a programme of work to deliver better results.
- Specific Requirements
Demonstrably able to work in a fluid and highly dynamic environment.
- Specific Requirements
Able to work with a great degree of flexibility and adaptability.
- Specific Requirements
Extremely diligent in the processing of complex information to ensure accuracy and efficacy.
- Specific Requirements
Ability to deal with frequent periods of intense concentration.
- Specific Requirements
Customer focused and driven on by fulfilment in reaching high standards/quality.
- Specific Requirements
Flexible, pragmatic and innovative approach to problems and working practices.
- Specific Requirements
Empathetic and willing to use a range of communication skills to achieve goals.
- Specific Requirements
Ability to work on own initiative as well as plan and organise own and team’s workload.
- Specific Requirements
Able to perform and deliver under pressure of competing deadlines/difficult circumstances.
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
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
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Excellent prioritisation skills to effectively manage competing and/or conflicting demands
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Ability to analyse and solve complex operational challenges
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Ability to interpret complex legislative information and technical specifications and apply policy and/or service development.
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Ability to manage large revenue budgets covering physical assets and projects across multiple sites.
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Excellent Project management and negotiation skills
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Excellent presentation skills, confident communicator and high quality written reporting skills
Desirable
10 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Management Qualifications to Diploma level
- Qualifications
DP/RP/AP training and experience
- Qualifications
Accredited H&S qualifications e.g NEEBOSH, IOSH
- Qualifications
Evidence of continued professional development
- Previous Experience
Previous NHS Acute Hospital experience, including good level of HTM/HBN and other DoH Guidance
- Previous Experience
Confident in the use of Computer software packages such as Excel, Work, Power Point
- Previous Experience
Experience and knowledge of CAFM Systems
- Specific Requirements
Good leadership skills and ability to manage multi-disciplinary design teams.
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Well understood financial management and budget understanding
- Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Well-developed IT skills.
Job overview
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.
- 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.
- To act as budget holder for Estates budgets.
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This advert is for Deputy Head of Estates - Band 8b - QIA Ref 236 with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincoln, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Estates manager role. The advertised salary is £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 May 2025.
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