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Working Full time; 37.5 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the CoCH senior leadership team as the Head of Estates.
The Head of Estates is responsible for delivering a safe, efficient and effective maintenance service, and for the management of the Estates Department’s building and engineering direct labour workforce. The post holder must ensure that engineering and building activities are compliant with statutory legislation, Health Technical Memorandums (HTMs) and other relevant codes of practice. The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the reactive, corrective and planned maintenance of equipment, engineering services and building fabric for all Healthcare properties under their control in a cost effective, compliant, safe and timely manner.
Responsibilities
* The post holder will be required to communicate highly complex technical information with senior managers, directors, contractors, suppliers and other staff on a range of operational estates projects and works programmes.
* To provide credible leadership, professional management and direction to all staff within the Estates department, to enable the effective sharing of knowledge, ideas and skills. Promoting a culture, within the Estates department, which is underpinned by open communication and team working across all disciplines.
* Responsible for ensuring that appropriate managerial, technical engineering, building resources and associated infrastructure are in place to support the delivery of a cost effective Estates service to maintain the objectives of CoCH and the relevant Healthcare regulatory standards.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adam Hope Job title: Associate Director of Estates & Facilities Email address: a.hope4@nhs.net Telephone number: 01244364372
Seniority level
* Executive
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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