Job overview

JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for leading Hard Facilities management to ensure a safe, efficient, and a sustainable infrastructure which delivers the client’s strategy of best care anywhere. This is achieved through the mobilisation of associated in house resources and outsourced contracts. Also, lead, develop and implement the client’s back log maintenance programme and Estates plan in accordance with agreed budgets, including associated capital and revenue building services projects. 

To manage the Estates six facet survey with a view to reducing high and significant risks and to keep the six facet survey up to date as works are carried out,

As a manager, ensure that the client has the right facilities and people in the right place at the right time in order to deliver excellent patient care within cost plans.

Develop innovative and new ways of working in hard facilities management and practices both to reduce costs and improve efficiency. This includes not only the building services function but also energy, and water. This will be undertaken with and through contractors.

Main duties of the job

JOB SUMMARY
 
To provide effective management of client’s Estates function working collaboratively with all the leadership team to make a contribution to the development of the overall function. 

To manage the day to day operations of Estates Infrastructure and develop these services in accordance with the client’s corporate policies, strategies and vision, emphasising the cultural changes and innovations essential to modernising health care and an improved patient experience. This includes responsibility for planning and implementing service improvement and modernisation.

To provide Estates with senior Estates technical advice and guidance within the remit of the role.

To manage key strategic and operational Estates Infrastructure change management programmes and key projects for the Trust, and ensure the Directorate achieves its roles and objectives. 

To develop all aspects of the Estates Infrastructure services elements of any NHS Planning and participate in associated national requirements, i.e. statutory regulations, PLACE, ERIC, PAM support fire, health and safety and be involved in developing an overall Trust-wide approach.

Working for our organisation

Established in 2018, Healthcare Partners Ltd (HPL) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

We offer a consultative, collaborative approach — based on a genuine desire to make healthcare provision outstanding, and respecting the opinions and skills of our fellow clinical professionals to produce exceptional outcomes.

We are a substantial company in our own right, with an annual turnover of around £50m and over 80 staff. We partner with other healthcare providers throughout the UK in both the public and private sectors, reinvesting our profits and savings back into the NHS.

At Healthcare Partners Ltd, the patient is at the heart of all we do. We’re proud to be part of the NHS, helping to make healthcare better.