Senior Estates Assurance Advisor

3 months ago

Leeds, United Kingdom NHS England Full time

Job summary

We are recruiting for 2 vacancies - One to cover the North East & North West Region and one to cover the South East & South West Regions. Please confirm in your preference in your personal statement.

Transforming our estate for the future

Estates are at the centre of the government's plans for transforming the NHS. The NHS Long Term Plan outlines the need to 'accelerate the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the decade ahead.'

We have big ambitions, such as becoming the world's first net zero carbon national health system by 2040, setting global standards for healthcare providers, building 40 new state-of-the-art hospitals, and channelling significant additional investment into the wider acute, community and primary care to accelerate community-based care for patients.

The NHS Estate covers 25 million m of hospital estate including acute, community and mental health care settings. With million NHS staff working across 17,000 buildings, including 1,140 hospitals and 7,500 primary care sites, our c100k staff are responsible for maintaining and running all estate and facilities services across all of these sites.

With £4 billion of operational capital funding and annual expenditure of £10 billion across estates and facilities management, there's scope to make real change across our estate.

Main duties of the job

The National Estates Capital and Transactions team provides expert support in respect of assurance of estates business cases (capital & subsidiary), PFI, ProCure 23 construction framework, capital input into capital strategies and spending review along with supporting the estates team in respect of broader activities where expert capital, assurance or transactions support is required. We are a busy team with a diverse portfolio of work, having assured cases with a capital value over £3 billion in 2023/24.Reporting to the National Estates Capital and Transactions Lead this post is one of a team of four assuring capital and other estate transaction business cases requiring national approval and acting as estates keyholder for business cases covering all aspects of estates and associated elements of business cases working closely with DHSC commercial team, regional estates colleagues and other national keyholders.

As part of the team you will also support development of national guidance in respect of business case assurance such as leading on the review of estates elements of the business case checklist or other standard documentation.

Qualified in a relevant discipline with experience of working in a senior project appraisal or transaction role and have estates related experience.

You'll have communication skills to build trusted relationships with colleagues. You will be able to translate technical information into clear concise reporting, documentation, and advice.

About us

The National Estates and Facilities Team - The purpose of our team is to provide a clean, safe, and sustainable estate and patient environment across the NHS. The team of c120 people is made up of a diverse mix of skills and expertise but we have a common purpose - to provide the best possible services and outcomes for our patients. We work across all aspects of estates and facilities functions from national policies and workforce strategy to regional and local delivery through local healthcare systems.

People are central to what we do - both in terms of our patient-led care but just as importantly, our brilliant team. We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and compassionate workforce supporting everyone to reach their full potential.

This means we care about your professional development and training as well as your personal health and wellbeing. You'll be joining a supportive and friendly team where you can truly be yourself. You'll also have access to fantastic benefits such as our pension scheme, great annual leave entitlement and flexible working opportunities to give you the work/life balance that suits your lifestyle and caring responsibilities. If you are passionate about estates and facilities and want to make a tangible difference to people's lives, join us on this exciting journey.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For an informal discussion please contact

We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, especially disabled, female, and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, who are currently under-represented at this level within our workforce.

We are happy to consider secondment and fixed term appointments as well as substantive appointments.

Application Form Supporting Statement Guidelines

Please respond to the following questions in the Supporting Statement section in the job application form:

What values, behaviours, leadership, and mentoring expertise will you bring to our team and how will this help us in achieving our goals?

How have you worked collaboratively with other technical and non-technical experts to provide consolidated advice and drive best practice?

When have you worked as part of a team working collaboratively to deliver standardised advice and support to a range of stakeholders

What is your specialist technical area applicable to this role and what expertise do you have in distilling highly technical information to provide advice to senior leaders ?

What experience do you have in developing guidance and supporting capability across wider stakeholders?

How does this role fit with your career so far and your long-term career aspirations?

What sets you apart from the other candidates?

Please also confirm your relevant qualification and associated registration number.

If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience, we need then don't delay, apply today We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualification

Essential

Qualified estates professional or experience of working in a senior project appraisal or transaction role. Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. In depth, extensive and expert knowledge acquired over a significant period of time of specialist NHS estates areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to estates costing and appraisal Detailed knowledge of NHS Finance

Skills & Experience

Essential

Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations. Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising a large budget with solid working knowledge of financial process requirements.

Values & Behaviours

Essential

An ability to identify risks through a range of techniques and to develop mitigation strategies. Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.

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