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Job requirements
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Ability to think and manage strategically and operationally
- Other
Self-motivated with a high level of focus, drive and energy
- Other
Ability to maintain detached, professional, impersonal, successful relationships
- Other
Maintains high standards of professionalism and confidentiality
- Skills
Strategic Vision: Ability to translate corporate goals into clear, actionable estates and capital development strategies.
- Skills
High-Value Negotiation: Proven skill in managing commercial disputes, final accounts, and complex supplier or contractor negotiations.
- Skills
Stakeholder Influence: Advanced communication skills required to advise, challenge, and present complex technical data to Board-level executives and external regulatory bodies.
- Skills
Multidisciplinary Team Leadership: Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and managing in-house project managers, surveyors, and external multi-disciplinary design teams.
- Skills
Risk & Change Management: Expert utilization of corporate risk registers, mitigation strategies, and leading teams through large-scale organizational transitions.
- Knowledge
Significant post qualification experience & track record of Managing capital projects assets and services, including budgets within a complex acute health environment
- Knowledge
Significant experience operating at Senior level Deputy Director level, Head of Service
- Knowledge
Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on assets, resources, services & staff and developing new ways of working
- Experience
Management of capital programmes for development and maintenance of Estates, facilities and property
- Experience
Financial management and analytical abilities including negotiating claims
- Experience
Experience in procuring and delivering projects and contracts, via a range of procurement routes
- Experience
Experience of managing building project teams, developing design briefs, service specifications, appointing and managing professional advisors and consultants.
- Qualifications
A degree or master's level qualification in a relevant field such as construction, engineering, architecture, surveying, or estates management.
- Qualifications
Project Management:
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Professional Chartership
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated professional to fill our post of Capital Programme Director/Deputy Director of Estates.
This position is vital to ensure that we continue to provide high levels of service to our patients and staff whilst managing the capital funded projects on the Newham University Hospital (NUH) site.
Working closely with the Newham University Hospital (NUH) Hospital Executive Board (HEB), the Group Deputy Director of EFM Capital Programme PFI and Retained Estates & MES and the NUH Director of Estates, the Capital Programme Director will play a substantial contribution in ensuring that the corporate objectives of the Trust and Newham Hospital are achieved, with specific focus on the delivery of suitable, safe and secure premises and equipment.
The post holder will need to be working at a Senior Manager level and have recent relevant experience of leading multiple capital projects and managing programme interfaces with different contractors.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be professionally responsible and accountable for the standard, delivery, continual monitoring, risk management and review of the Newham University Hospital capital programme delivery to ensure a professional, high quality, cost effective and efficient service to meet the demands of the organisation, its staff and patients. The post holder will also play a significant role in contributing to the delivery of the Trust capital programme at a strategic level and occasionally at a project level for larger schemes or where more junior project managers need support.
The post holder will deputise for the Group Deputy Director EFM Capital Programme PFI and Retained Estates & MES and work closely with the other senior Trust clinical managers, heads of EFM Group Services, engineering staff, craft staff and construction professionals, clinicians, senior managers, along with statutory bodies and external agencies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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This advert is for Programme Director with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 9 Director role. The advertised salary is £118,919 - £135,920 Per annum inc. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.
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