Head of Estates

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (DSFS), Estates department are looking to appoint a Head of Estates to lead, manage and develop our Estates Service, to ensure that all services meet statutory requirements, NHS targets and offer quality and value for money. A key focus of the role is to ensure all our buildings and facilities provide safe, comfortable and pleasing environments for our patients and staff.

The post holder will undertake the role of Estates professional advisor to the Trust advising the board on key Estates strategic and compliance issues.

The post holder will be responsible to the Operations Director for all Governance and Assurance on operational activities undertaken on a range of Estates Operational Standards including statutory compliance and Health Technical Memorandum compliance for Estates maintenance.

At DSFS, we are very passionate about our staff’s personal development and innovation, so you can expect wide-ranging support for your own development, ideas and initiatives as you lead the way in delivering service excellence.

Applicants should have extensive experience in working at a senior level delivering Estate Services and will require excellent leadership skills that will enable them to motivate and develop our multi-disciplinary services and workforce. Experience in delivering high performing customer focussed services and being able to effectively manage senior clients is an essential.

To be the professional head of Estates Services, and take the lead in providing professional advice in the Trust.

Developing and managing key performance indicators across all areas of statutory compliance.

To ensure that the Trust meets its statutory requirements and delivers best practice in the provision of its Estates services and undertake the role of responsible person for all areas of statutory compliance.

Support the Operations Director in delivering the DSFS commercial development programme.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Please see the Job description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that is required.