Job vacancy: Director of Operations (Estates and Facilities), Derbyshire Support Facilities Services, Chesterfield

Job summary

Main area: Director
Grade: Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 166-DSFS-7418661

Employer: Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
Employer type: NHS
Site: DSFS - Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Town: Chesterfield
Salary: Salary is £100-130k dependent upon experience.
Closing: 13/09/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/09/2025

Director of Operations (Estates and Facilities)

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a detailed description of the role, the key results areas and team structure, along with the experience, skills and behaviours required.

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• A proven track record of strong leadership at a senior level and developing performance-oriented teams.
• Extensive recent and relevant experience in a strategic role responsible for managing large scale and complex estates and facilities operations.
• Evidenced close management of the professions delivering estates and facilities services
• Evidenced delivery of high quality, customer focused services of a comparable scale and complexity to those handled by DSFS.
• Proven ability to think strategically and develop growth strategies
• Demonstrated ability to oversee complex projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
• Excellent communication skills able to engage and influence stakeholders and manage conflict to resolution.
• A strong understanding of the commercial and healthcare sectors
• Experience of leading and developing a positive and inclusive organisational culture
• An understanding of the requirements of company directorship and legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to the role.

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

Significant or near Board level leadership experience
Relevant professional and/or leadership qualification or comparable experience
• Strong evidence of continuing personal and professional development.

Skills and behaviours

Essential criteria

Personal and professional credibility, with the ability to positively represent the organisation to a wide range of audiences
Demonstrated ability to oversee complex projects from inception to completion, ensuring they are delivered on time and within budget.
Ability to balance the need to think strategically and manage operationally
Effective leadership, communicating with clarity and purpose to lead change and deliver success through others.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and interact effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Strong team player with a collaborative working style with peers, sharing knowledge and being proactive in understanding and resolving issues
Motivating and empowering leadership style with ability to inject pace and drive
Demonstrates DSFS Values.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

COVID19 Vaccination

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / [email protected] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter: @hrcrhft @WellbeingCRH @royalhospital

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Applicant requirements

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Hal Spencer
Job title: Chief Executive
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01246 277271

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Director of Operations (Estates and Facilities)

Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

Skills and behaviours

Essential criteria

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