Estates Delivery Lead

Job summary

A great opportunity to gain experience within the Estates Delivery team at an exciting time for the NHS estate.

The aim of the role of the Estate Delivery Lead (EDL) is to deliver high quality strategic and operational estates and facilities advice and support across the NHS organisations throughout their NHS region. Facilitating NHS Trusts, Primary Care Networks and ICSs to create better healthcare environments and generate cost efficiencies that will benefit clinicians, patients and the wider health economy.

You will be operating in a regional role as part of the Estates Delivery Team, covering the Midlands NHS region in England, although there will also be a need to support and participate in national programmes and initiatives. It is a challenging and diverse role working across the healthcare, social care and wider public-sector system as part of an independent strategic estates advisory, operational support and capital delivery function. It offers you a great opportunity to experience the breadth of work within the Estates team.

Main duties of the job

This is a results focused role, requiring a full understanding of national health policy objectives to ensure that consequential benefits in efficiency, a safe hospital environment, management and mitigation of backlog maintenance and Critical Infrastructure Risk, surplus land release, capital receipts, green plans, estates and facilities workforce strategies and new housing targets are achieved.

You will be working with a small team of EDL's supporting collective goals. The Estates function provides impartial advice across the wider NHS system, regardless of property ownership, advising a full range of stakeholders including Commissioners and Providers in relation to a broad range operational issues, of estate and facilities optimisation, rationalisation, acquisition, disposal, and lease restructuring opportunities.

The aim is to ensure the provision of a clean, safe and suitable estate and patient environment within the healthcare system. In relation to Estate matters, key responsibilities are to design the system strategy, set policy, ensure system wide delivery and accountability to parliament. We support NHS to deliver efficient and effective Estates and Facilities Management and strategic functions and services. It is a significant area of accountability with several institutional relationships, with some rooted in statutory and other requirements of the new system.

There will be some travel across the Region to Provider and Commissioner premises as necessary.

About us

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and 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 process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Details

• Date posted: 16 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8c
• Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 a year per annum
• Contract: Fixed term
• Duration: 9 months
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 990-FIN-EC2389-E
• Job locations: Leeds Hub (Wellington Place), 7 and 8 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

The successful candidate will support Regional EDL colleagues partnering with senior stakeholders in NHS region, Trusts and ICSs to support delivery of the NHS England Long Term Plan and major capital programmes by developing estates strategies and programmes which empower the transformation of care and are clearly linked to other infrastructure enablers. Critical skills in stakeholder management, thorough knowledge of the NHS and estates and facilities operational issues, oversight of capital project delivery, commercial awareness and programme and project management are required to be most successful. A particular skill set we are looking for in this secondment is to provide support on our Estate Safety programme

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service. The new 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 visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .NHS England operate a Hybrid working policy and the postholder will be expected to be partly office based in an NHS England Office and have the opportunity to work from home for part of their working week.

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.

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.