Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·       Communication and relationship skills – To communicate across multiple projects with a wide range of internal and external staff, patients and visitors including writing Business Cases and Board papers, often with complex conflicting priorities with the outcome of an agreed brief.  To ensure excellent working relationships and seamless working practice with colleagues across the Trust, including IT/digital, Security, Health and Safety, Infection Prevention and Control and Estates and Facilities specialists. 

·       Analytical and Judgemental Skills – To provide professional building advice to internal and external stakeholders in a range of areas such as Health and Safety, Health Building Notes, Health Technical Memoranda, Programme and Quality and Cost.  To prepare and disseminate standards for all aspects of building services and to ensure that high and consistent standards are maintained in the building stock.

·       Planning and Organisational Skills - To develop and deliver the Trust’s Capital Programme, based on the Clinical Strategy, Trust objectives and the sustainability objectives set out by the Trust and other external organisations.  To ensure improvements are made to the existing physical environment which directly benefit patient care, visitor experience and the staff’s working environment.  To successfully deliver the programme through both long-term planning and tight project controls, from Business Case to commissioning, and all elements in between.  To act as the Senior Project Manager for capital schemes, where a consultant project manager is not appointed, appointing the design team and construction contractor in accordance with Trust procedures and policies.

·       Physical Skills- Able to use tools to interpret drawings, able to understand complex technical reports and surveys and able to prepare technical drawings using CAD (computer aided design).

·       Responsibility for Patient/Service User care – To ensure that patient, staff and visitor safety is integral to all design.   To ensure that Health and Safety in the construction process is planned and executed to ensure no harm to patients, carers, staff and visitors. 

·       Responsibility for Service Development - To work closely with operational colleagues, advising as necessary, to develop service solutions which inform the capital programme.

·       Responsibility for Financial and Physical Resources – To manage estates budgets, procure physical assets, select appropriate suppliers and manage contracts, all following Trust procedures which include the Standing Financial Instructions.

·       Responsibility for Human Resources – Line Manager for Estates staff.  

·       Responsibility for Information resources - To ensure that the records for Trust buildings are kept up to date, using external consultants or in-house CAD equipment.

·       Responsibility for Research and Development - To ensure that information is gathered on either the specification of new and improved building technologies and elements or lessons learnt from completed projects and sharing the information with relevant colleagues to enable future cost and operational efficiencies. This includes piloting new technology in close discussion with clinical colleagues and sharing learning from and with other Trusts. 

·       Freedom to Act - To work within statutory law and local policies, but also be responsible and speak out against any breaches of either.

·       Physical Effort – Light physical work, frequent site visits and standing, some working at height and carrying equipment.

·       Mental Effort – To manage frequent concentration on project detail with an unpredictable work pattern when dealing with project emergencies, also to manage negotiations and chair complex meetings.

·       Emotional Effort – Frequently dealing with aggrieved staff and occasionally dealing with aggrieved contractors, and patient representatives.

·       Working Conditions – Dust and dirt on building sites and lone working in empty buildings.

·       To represent the Trust at the Health Estates Facilities Management Association (HEFMA) and appropriate sub-groups.

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