Job overview

We are seeking a proactive Band 7 Property & Facilities Manager to lead our Soft FM services, including housekeeping, waste, pest control, catering, and support functions. You will also oversee property management, leases, and space use. This key role ensures safe, high-quality services that support patient care and operational goals. You will manage contracts, lead a multidisciplinary team, and work closely with clinical and non-clinical staff to ensure compliance with national standards and local policies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading and managing Soft FM services across multiple sites.
  Ensuring compliance with infection prevention, food hygiene, and waste regulations.
• Driving service improvements and sustainability initiatives.
• Managing supplier relationships and performance monitoring.
• Supporting audits, inspections, and reporting requirements
• Negotiate with Landlords
• Support clinical services with additional space requests
• Identifying opportunities to consolidate space and exercise break options

We’re looking for someone with:

• Proven experience in facilities or estates management within healthcare or similar settings
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and standards (e.g., HTM, HACCP, COSHH).
• A commitment to patient-centred service delivery and continuous improvement

This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible difference in a supportive and forward-thinking organisation.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Property and Facilities Manager is to be the professional lead for all soft facilities management (soft fm) services and to provide professional and technical advice on the full range of Facilities/Hotel Services to own and partnership organisations.  They will also play the lead role in managing the lease obligations for the Trust, negotiations with landlords and supporting teams get best use of the space occupied.

To manage the operational, technical and compliance requirements of third-party contracts for own and partnership organisations.

To lead and develop the Facilities team, ensuring key areas of technical expertise are provided and developed.

To measure Facilities related standards and key performance indicators, monitor and review the performance and demonstrate improvements in services and compliance assurance.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.