Estates Delivery Lead

A great opportunity to gain experience within the Estates Delivery team at an exciting time for the NHS estate. This is a temporary post to 31 March 2025.
The aim of the role of the Estate Delivery Lead (EDL) is to deliver high quality strategic and operational estates and facilities advice and support across the NHS organisations throughout their NHS region. Facilitating NHS Trusts, Primary Care Networks and ICSs to create better healthcare environments and generate cost efficiencies that will benefit clinicians, patients and the wider health economy.
You will be operating in a regional role as part of the Estates Delivery Team, covering the East of England NHS region in England, although there will also be a need to support and participate in national programmes and initiatives. It is a challenging and diverse role working across the healthcare, social care and wider public-sector system as part of an independent strategic estates advisory, operational support and capital delivery function. It offers you a great opportunity to experience the breadth of work within the Estates team.
This is a results focused role, requiring a full understanding of national health policy objectives to ensure that consequential benefits in efficiency, a safe hospital environment, management and mitigation of backlog maintenance and Critical Infrastructure Risk, surplus land release, capital receipts, green plans, estates and facilities workforce strategies and new housing targets are achieved.
You will be working with a small team of EDL’s supporting collective goals.
The Estates function provides impartial advice across the wider NHS system, regardless of property ownership, advising a full range of stakeholders including Commissioners and Providers in relation to a broad range operational issues, of estate and facilities optimisation, rationalisation, acquisition, disposal, and lease restructuring opportunities.
The aim is to ensure the provision of a clean, safe and suitable estate and patient environment within the healthcare system. In relation to Estate matters, key responsibilities are to design the system strategy, set policy, ensure system wide delivery and accountability to parliament. We support NHS to deliver efficient and effective Estates and Facilities Management and strategic functions and services. It is a significant area of accountability with several institutional relationships, with some rooted in statutory and other requirements of the new system.
There will be some travel across the Region to Provider and Commissioner premises as necessary.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.
The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
Delivering value for money.
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