Associate Director of Estates

**Associate Director of EstatesandFacilities**

**Location**:Cambridge

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Proposed start date**: Immediate

**Band**: 8D

**Sector**: Healthcare

**Base**:Hospital

**Pay Rates**:
£38.50- £44.00 PAYE per hour

£39.50-£45.00 PAYE Inclusive of holiday pay per hour

£40.50-£46.00 Umbrella

Depending on skill and experience

**Permanent Salary**:
£79,592 to £91,787 depending on skill, work experience as well as NHS experience

**Working Days and Hours**:Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm (37.5hrs)

**Duties**
- Contribute to ensuring that the corporate aims and vision of the Trust are achieved.
- To be accountable to Director of Capital, Estates & Facilities Management for all professional aspects of the Trust’s operational engineering services - taking responsibility and be accountable for the design, safety, quality, technical suitability andstatutory compliance with relevant government directives.
- The AD BEMS will be responsible for the service planning and execution for all services within their portfolio.
- The post holder will be responsible as SOM level to the director of capital, estates & facilities as the Designated Person.
- Provide and promote effective professional leadership to ensure the delivery of cost effective, customer orientated services to the Trust and other NHS organisations in accordance with the established service level agreements
- Provide specialist and professional advice in relation to engineering services, working across the Trust’s premises.
- Take responsibility for leading the Trust’s building, engineering & maintenance departments, building an effective organisational structure that is agile and modern
- Provide lead engineering input into the Trust’s PFI building ensuring the contractor performs in line with the requirements of the contract.
- Take responsibility and accountability for strategy and policy development related to engineering services including the implementation of legislative requirements and risk management arrangements
- Be responsible for and accountable to the Director of Capital, Estates & Facilities Management for ensuring up to date estate information, commissioning specialist external services to ensure a robust set of estate related information is available, informthe life safety critical infrastructure five-year forward view and annual plan. Be responsible for an accountable for costed action plans are developed to support the operational services and are incorporated into the annual capital planning process.
- Take responsibility and accountability for business case development and operationalisation including the implementation of legislative requirements and risk management arrangements as these relate to the portfolio.
- Procure complex engineering & service contracts, detailing and approving specifications, lead procurement processes and implementing service contracts.
- Take responsibility for developing the scope of maintenance service level agreements with clinical and non-clinical clients, including third party clients, ensuring appropriate sign-offs
- Take responsibility to ensure environmental conditions are safe for patients, visitors and staff
- Ensure complex building and engineering services that are critical to both patient care and the integrity of the Trust’s estate are effectively managed
- Manage significant facilities and infrastructure resources through contracts and service agreements with the Principal Engineer as directed by the Director of Capital, Estates & Facilities Management
- To ensure appropriate devolution of operational management within portfolio, consistent with effective delivery and decision making whilst retaining overall responsibility and accountability for results

**Education, Qualifications & Skills**
- Degree in Building Service Engineering/Electrical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
- Master’s degree or equivalent healthcare specialist experience at senior engineering level in a complex engineering environment
- Evidence of Continuous Professional development
- Master degree or equivalent specialist knowledge in engineering
- Significant post qualification experience & track record of Managing Estates & Facilities assets and services, including budgets within a complex acute health environment
- Significant experience operating at head of service/associate Director level
- Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on assets, resources, services & staff and developing new ways of working
- Reporting to and working at Board / Committee level
- Proven contract and project management experience
- Effective communication, presentational and reporting skills
- Positively managing staff including performance and personal development
- Highly developed technical/ knowledge and appreciation of estates & facilities services
- This includes statutory legislation and DH mandatory and good practice guidance
- Budget management. (Capital/ revenue pay & non pay)
- Preparing of business cases to support investment/ disinvestment plans and securing approval of external organisations where appropriate
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information
- Experience of participating in on-call rotas in a complex healthcare environment
- Experience in procuring and delivering projects and contracts, via a range of procurement routes