# Deputy Head of Estates - Band 8b - QIA Ref 236 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-head-of-estates-band-8b-qia-ref-236/995af877-ee05-468a-95b6-1ef0ec39ddc1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-head-of-estates-band-8b-qia-ref-236/995af877-ee05-468a-95b6-1ef0ec39ddc1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Lincoln County Hospital - **Profession:** Estates manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2025-05-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-05-12T08:40:48.293Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lincolnshire/Lincoln/United_Lincolnshire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Estates_Facilities_Directorate/Estates_Facilities_Directorate-v7177335 - **Employer website:** https://www.ulh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. Please see Job Description for full details ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities What should you do next? Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you! ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - 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 **Desirable** - Management Qualifications to Diploma level - DP/RP/AP training and experience - Accredited H&S qualifications e.g NEEBOSH, IOSH - Evidence of continued professional development ### Previous Experience **Essential** - 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 - High level of regulatory knowledge, skills and experience in maintenance services - CAFM and strategic skills, knowledge and experience in the effective development and management of assets and PPM strategies - High level of understanding and management of Finances, in particular SFI's within a Healthcare organisation - Procurement experience in the development of specifications, tenders in estates services and contract management - Broad and high level experience in Regulations, statutory, mandatory and best practices for estates maintenance services **Desirable** - Previous NHS Acute Hospital experience, including good level of HTM/HBN and other DoH Guidance - Confident in the use of Computer software packages such as Excel, Work, Power Point - Experience and knowledge of CAFM Systems ### Specific Requirements **Essential** - Able to cope with a fast moving challenging role. - Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within both the public and private sectors. - Ability to engage with staff, local communities and service users/customers as part of a programme of work to deliver better results. - Demonstrably able to work in a fluid and highly dynamic environment. - Able to work with a great degree of flexibility and adaptability. - Extremely diligent in the processing of complex information to ensure accuracy and efficacy. - Ability to deal with frequent periods of intense concentration. - Customer focused and driven on by fulfilment in reaching high standards/quality. - Flexible, pragmatic and innovative approach to problems and working practices. - Empathetic and willing to use a range of communication skills to achieve goals. - Ability to work on own initiative as well as plan and organise own and team’s workload. - Able to perform and deliver under pressure of competing deadlines/difficult circumstances. **Desirable** - Good leadership skills and ability to manage multi-disciplinary design teams. ### Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes **Essential** - 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 - Excellent prioritisation skills to effectively manage competing and/or conflicting demands - Ability to analyse and solve complex operational challenges - Excellent planning and organisational skills. - Ability to interpret complex legislative information and technical specifications and apply policy and/or service development. - Ability to manage large revenue budgets covering physical assets and projects across multiple sites. - Excellent Project management and negotiation skills - Excellent presentation skills, confident communicator and high quality written reporting skills **Desirable** - Well understood financial management and budget understanding - Well-developed IT skills. ## Documents - [ceo welcome letter (pdf, 83.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2883) - [ulht staff networks (pdf, 13.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2739) - [deputy head of estates jd (pdf, 848.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9434050) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references.