Employer: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Colchester/Ipswich Hospital
Town: Colchester/Ipswich
Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 03/01/2025
Assistant Director – Property and Estates Strategy
NHS AfC: Band 8d
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education, and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships, and staff benefits.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
ESNEFT are seeking a proactive and commercially focused Property Leader with experience in Property and Estate Management to join the ESNEFT Estates and Facilities Division Senior Management Team as the Assistant Director for Property and Estates Strategy.
Ultimately, you will be responsible for ensuring the trust has safe, functional, sustainable and value for money property assets and is using them in the most efficient way to best enable the delivery of great healthcare and experience.
A formal Property Qualification is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
* Develop and maintain the trusts property strategy (i.e. what property and where) ensuring it aligns with the clinical strategy.
* Implement the trust property strategy to improve the functionality, safety and sustainability of the estate whilst improving the financial position.
* Manage the finances of the property and estates strategy including all income and expenditure (pay, non-pay, rent, rates, service charge, PFI, management costs, income etc).
* Develop and maintain the trusts development control plan and associated master plan for each of the main sites.
* Develop and maintain the trust’s estates strategy ensuring it aligns with the clinical strategy.
* Work with the divisions, estates and capital team to identify the requirements of the future and develop the trust’s 5yr capital plan to enable the trust’s property and estates strategies.
* Identify and access multiple funding routes to deliver the trust’s capital plan.
* Work with the estates team to ensure the annual backlog maintenance plan aligns with the overall estates strategy.
* Manage and develop the team, developing the level of property capability within the trust.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro-rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.
Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Be the most senior property professional in the Trust, providing mentoring, guidance and support to those in the team and professional advice to decision makers.
* Provide visible leadership and promote continual improvement in quality, performance and delivery of Trust objectives.
* Lead the establishment of accountability structures within the Corporate function ensuring that responsibility is delegated appropriately.
* Lead, manage and motivate staff within the Corporate function to deliver and improve services.
* Line management of Corporate Leads and staff within the department, either directly or through delegated responsibility.
* Develop the business and planning processes throughout the service area to deliver services to required standards and within the available resource base.
* Develop processes for the entire service to jointly manage the business, delivery and development of service.
Person specification
Experience
* Proven budget management skills and financial acumen.
* Managing a diverse team.
* Negotiation and influencing skills at a senior management level.
* Presenting complex plans at Board level.
* Evidence of delivering and implementing strategic plans.
* Experience of project management roles.
* NHS experience at a senior management level.
Qualifications
* Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of experience.
* Formal management or business qualification or equivalent relevant experience.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Project Management Qualification.
Knowledge
* Resilient with confident ability to work alone and equally as a team player.
* Ability to lead a number of complex projects simultaneously and deliver to agreed timescales.
* Commitment to, and demonstration of organisational behaviours and values.
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in complex settings.
* Knowledge of NHS Trust working practices.
* Understanding of issues facing the NHS.
Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.
Please make sure that you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached and that your statement in support reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria.
Secondment - if you are interested in undertaking a role on a secondment basis, please ensure that you have discussed this with your current line manager prior to submitting your application.
When providing reference details please provide email addresses so references can be sought promptly to cover the last 3 years of employment.
Successful candidates may be charged for their DBS check. Please ensure you read the information found in the attached DBS Information document.
The Trust is committed to its staff and their development and to equal opportunities and diversity. Applications are welcomed from all sections of the community.
In submitting an application form, you authorise East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; we look forward to receiving your application for employment.
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