We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Head of Operational Estates to provide senior leadership and operational oversight of the Trust’s estates and engineering services. This is a key leadership role responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe, compliant, and resilient estates services that support high‑quality patient care across the Trust.
The postholder will lead multidisciplinary estates teams and oversee both in‑house and contracted services, ensuring full compliance with statutory requirements, NHS guidance, and CQC standards. Working closely with senior leaders, clinical teams, and external stakeholders, the role will provide expert assurance on estates performance, risk management, infrastructure resilience, and regulatory readiness.
This role is ideal for a confident and credible estates professional with strong technical knowledge, proven leadership experience, and the ability to operate at executive level, contributing to Trust‑wide objectives and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Support operational delivery under the direction of senior leadership for the delivery of all hard FM services across the Trust’s estate, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and regulatory frameworks.
- Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering and estates team, fostering a high-performance culture focused on safety, compliance, and service excellence.
- Provide technical advice and support to senior leadership on estates operations, advising the Associate Director of Estates, Trust Board, and external stakeholders on engineering risk, infrastructure resilience, and statutory compliance.
- Oversee the implementation and continuous improvement of compliance strategies, ensuring full adherence to NHS HTMs, HBNs, and all statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Direct the Trust-wide audit and assurance programme for estates operations, ensuring robust quality management systems are in place to identify, report, and resolve non‑compliance.
- Lead on the development and delivery of the Estates Risk Register, ensuring proactive identification, mitigation, and escalation of operational risks.
- Support innovation initiatives in asset management and lifecycle planning, and sustainability, ensuring the estate is maintained to support clinical priorities and long‑term strategic goals.
Compliance
- Provide strategic leadership on estates compliance, ensuring all engineering and facilities operations meet statutory, regulatory, and NHS-specific requirements, including HTMs, HBNs, and CQC standards.
- Support the implementation and review of compliance frameworks developed by senior leadership, policies, and protocols to mitigate operational, reputational, and financial risks.
CAFM System Management
- Provide strategic leadership for the Trust’s Computer‑Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system, ensuring it is fully optimised to support operational delivery, compliance assurance, and strategic estates planning.
Financial Management
- Support the development and monitoring of estates budgets, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, statutory obligations, and operational needs.
- Monitor expenditure across all estates functions, identifying cost‑saving opportunities and ensuring financial performance remains within agreed parameters.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites. Employment is subject to a six‑month probationary period.
This advert closes on Friday 1 May 2026.
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