Head of Facilities

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team at AGH Solutions as a Head of Facilities and be a key part of the AGH Solutions Senior Management Team. You will provide oversight for the professional leadership of facilities management services and teams including domestics, security, catering, portering, housekeeping and transport to provide a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and colleagues. You will be required to maintain effective working relationships with clinical services and departments across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and work effectively with a range of external organisations including external contractors and statutory bodies.

You will have senior level experience in managing the delivery of facilities services, providing the vision and drive for the future development of services, and in the leadership and development of teams.

You will possess a problem-solving approach to tasks and be capable of translating strategic plans into workable solutions. You will have strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with clinical teams.
- Professional leadership of facilities management services including domestics, security, catering, portering, housekeeping, transport and other facilities services as deemed appropriate to provide a clean, safe and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and colleagues.
- Maintain effective working relationships with clinical services and departments across Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
- Work effectively with a range of external organisations including external contractors and statutory bodies.
- Develop links with other NHS organisations across the region to share best practice.
- Ensure effective management of staff and budgets within Facilities Management.
- Negotiation and performance monitoring of all facilities management support services provided through external contractors.
- Deputise for the Manager Director as required.
- To become involved and lead on group level Facilities work programmes as required.
- To be a member of AGH Solutions Senior Management Team.

AGH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides Estates, Facilities and procurement services for the Trust.

We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.

We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.

Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.

Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHS specifically.

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.