Deputy Head of Estates

Job overview

Based at Northwick Park Hospital, but covering across sites (Ealing Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital, and some Community sites), you will manage the day-to-day Estates Services for the Trust, holding senior and professional responsibility for the effective, safe and compliant delivery of these services. In addition, you will provide direct support to the Associate Director of Estates and Capital Projects with involvement in exciting and ambitious projects, aimed at developing and improving and services for patients, families and staff.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring the Trust provides Estates services that are safe, whilst optimising the opportunities to provide high quality of patient care.
• Ensure the development and implementation of the Estates policies, procedures and systems are fully integrated with the Trust processes and values.
• To be responsible for the development and provision of specific areas of the annual business plans for all estate management arrangements, operations and service provision.
• To proactively participate in stakeholder groups.
• To continue the development and analysis of benchmarking of all estates data at both local and national levels.
• Ensure that monitoring and financial management systems are in place to effectively control financial activity within own area.
• Responsibility to ensure compliance with legislation, regulation and relevant guidance including Health and Safety matters to minimise risk to patients, staff, and visitors.
• To lead and review of service contracts to ensure that the Trust receives high quality, efficient and cost-effective services that meet Trust business and regulatory requirements.
• Interpret and comply with relevant legislation, regulation, and best practice guidance.
• To monitor service performance through the development, production, and use of key performance indicators (KPIs) to demonstrate the delivery of agreed service standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.