Director of Estates and Facilities

2 weeks ago


Gillingham, United Kingdom Concept Resourcing Full time

**Director of Estates and Facilities - NHS Trust
3-month contract
£543 per day
Kent - Hybrid Working**
**Overview**:
The role will be responsible for leading the development and implementation of an effective estate strategy together with providing the professional leadership and operational management across their portfolio.

You will ensure suitable and sufficient governance arrangements are embedded into the department which provides assurance to the Chief Executive and Board of Directors in relation to the built environment and estates and facilities services including statutoryand other risks that will impact on the delivery of a safe, responsive cost-effective service.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To actively contribute to the Trust's delivery of the key strategic priorities and the objectives outlined in the Annual Plan.
- Ensure all stakeholders fully appreciate and recognise the estates and facilities implications of their proposals and ensuring the estates and facilities team are fully integrated and supportive of the trusts strategic objectives.
- Undertake the development and presentation of Business Case(s) which require capital investment to the Board of Directors.
- Operate as 'the intelligent client' and ensure effective management of any contracted-out services.
- Responsible for keeping the Trust's land and property in good repair, maintaining the backlog maintenance risk register whilst creating and maintaining a safe, suitable, and attractive environment for provision of healthcare.
- Acting as the trust lead professional in any land and property negotiations.
- Production of relevant information reports to substantiate the performance of all aspects of the directorate.
- Development of programmes to modernise and re-design functions and services which improve efficiency and/or effectiveness of the built environment.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Successfully managing a large-scale complex environment and capital programme
- Technical, construction and project management skills
- Commercial acumen
- Understanding and broad knowledge of the NHS
- Experience at either director/deputy director level or senior manager in a complex public or relevant private sector organisation
- Can demonstrate evidence of setting and achieving ambitious targets and of implementing innovative solutions designed to improve services within tight financial constraints.
- Experience of establishing effective financial control procedures
- Experience of using the Board Assurance Framework to enhance the work of the organisation.
- Leadership - the ability to set out a clear direction, to inspire others and assume command.
- Understand the ethics and values of the public service sector.
- Staff and team management skills
- Policy Formulation - ability to contribute to policy formulation.
- Has experience of effective partnership working with other organisations at a senior level, preferably a mix of public, private and voluntary sector.
- Demonstrates confidence and self-belief.
- Self-aware of impact on others is tenacious and resilient in the face of difficulty.
- Has personal integrity
- Demonstrates ability to self-manage workload and understands the complexity in order to operate effectively at a local, regional and national level.
- Political Astuteness

**Skills**:

- Highly developed leadership, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams.
- Ability and high degree of skill to communicate and engage with individuals at all levels both within the Trust and across partner organisations.
- Ability and skill to develop effective working relationships with key partners and influence a wide range of internal and external stake holders to bring about positive change.
- Proven ability and skill to analyse, interpret and present complex data and build business cases supported by clear evidence.
- Able to think strategically and develop coherent plans in an ambiguous and changing environment.
- Building personal and professional credibility with Board, management teams and staff



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