Job summary
- Main area
- Property Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 357-LN-404-25-QIA274-B
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Group Property Manager - Band 8a
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. 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 welcomes everyone. Discover 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.
Job overview
The primary role is to act as the Group Property Manager for The Group and its stakeholders.
The Group Property Manager will assist the Deputy Director of EFM in providing Property & Land advice
Main duties of the job
· Leases and other Legal Property contracts
· Property contract negotiations
· Property Management and Landlord and Tenant issues
· Building and Land asset valuations
· Land and Building disposals and acquisitions.
· Land ownership and Title deed issues
· Coordinating and negotiating with the District Valuer, DOH, NHS I, CHP, CCG,
· NHS PS and ICB
· Town and Country planning law and policy
· Management of Historic buildings included listed building law.
· Business rates
· Property income
· Appointment of Property related professionals (as required)
Working for our organisation
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Pilgrim Hospital is situated beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 7 standard of education (e.g., masters) or equivalent experience
- Professional membership of one of the following institutions: CIOB or RICS
- A relevant project management qualification such as PRINCE 2 or equivalent e3xperience.
- Recognised qualification in commercial property management, or equivalent
- Evidence of personal development history with extensive experience in estate management including land and property management at senior management level.
Desirable criteria
- CADFM qualification and experience
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing high value; highly complex contracts.
- Track record of delivering significant savings & income from Property & Land to support delivery of Cost Improvement Plans.
- Extensive experience and knowledge of the Landlord and Tenant Act and its application in NHS premises.
- Extensive knowledge of NHS Estatecode.
- Leading on service development/change management programmes at senior management level.
- Extensive knowledge of NHS Concode.
Desirable criteria
- Recent senior management experience in an Estates/Land and Property Management field within a large acute NHS organisation
Knowledge, Skiils and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Has the ability to work at Senior Manager level in deputising for the Deputy Director of EFM (service Integration) across a range of responsibilities in relation to land and property management.
- Has the ability both to focus on priority issues and produce strategies balancing short term needs within a long term strategic framework supporting the Trust in achieving its overall vision and strategic objectives.
- Has the ability to lead discussions and gain agreement from a range of stakeholders, often with different priorities, within budget limits.
- Has the ability to analyse and trouble shoot highly complex contract and service problems ensuring resolution is achieved through a constructive process.
- Able to demonstrate significant financial awareness; experience of managing, reviewing and controlling budgets; the ability to balance social, political and ethical pressures, and the ability to identify ways of maximising resources.
- Able to ensure appropriate structures are in place for effective and efficient management of land and property matters.
- Has the ability to analyse complex data, facts, situations and performance reports in order to resolve issues, forecast trends and propose and implement management strategies and make decisions on complex operational/service and commercial issues.
- Intermediate to advanced IT skills and experience with relevant software systems such as time management.
- Experience and qualification in management of estate management and land and property management.
- Experience of managing change in complex environment.
- Working knowledge of business continuity planning.
- Ability to apply lateral thinking to find business solutions and focus on critical issues when decision making. Ability to take qualified risks when necessary.
- Ability to recognise legitimate and potentially conflicting interests of stakeholders and agendas.
- Ability to balance social, political, and ethical pressures.
- Ability to actively question and challenge data, making judgements even when information is incomplete or unclear.
- Ability to recognise conflicting information, exploring the problem in some depth and act quickly and resolutely when problems emerge.
- Have the skills to adopt various negotiating styles according to circumstances, considering alternative perspectives and have the ability to communicate and present clearly too all levels.
- Able to determine and influence the key players in any situation, and have the sensitivity to determine which issues should be pursued.
- Have the ability to manage a diverse range of complex estate management functions and have the ability to organise and schedule services across this range of functions in liaison with service users and providers.
- Have the ability to shape and deliver estate services direction compiling business cases and strategies for approval by the Board.
- Have the ability to produce and agree SLA’s as required for Trust and other clients and the ability to commission and operate services to meet the demands of these SLA’s
- Demonstrating the ability to listen. Being even handed and having an open mind.
- Establish a high level of confidentiality, able to manage conflict and influence the thinking and behaviour of others.
- Able to project a confident, professional image, with the ability to stay calm under pressure.
- Ability to determine priorities and balance time effectively.
- Demonstrates highly developed delegation skills
- Able to tackle long standing or controversial issues while demonstrating sensitivity to the people involved. Be persistent in the face of setback, determined and willing to take bold action in difficult circumstances to achieve results.
- Able to logically think through a particular problem, and to determine an action plan for resolving issues, and drawing on appropriate resources, taking into account all the implications.
- Ability to work flexibly to respond to the demands of the service.
Desirable criteria
- Highly developed specialist knowledge and expertise on land and property contracts acquired through formal training and practical experience.
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to participate in the on Call rota
- Ability to travel between sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Purdy
- Job title
- Group Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702532964
- Additional information
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