Head of Estates & Minor Capital (Operations)

Job summary

To lead a team of skilled, professional, and technical, staff to deliver an effective, efficient and value for money operational estates and minor capital service. Ensuring services are executed in line with all current legislation, regulations and guidance appertaining to the field of work, and have in place systems, processes and information that enable assurances to be provided to the Trust Board that they are meeting their statutory compliance obligations. Providing environments which are accessible, safe, clean, and fit for purpose buildings for the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

The Trust operates from c185no. properties, geographically spread across the East Midlands and beyond, delivering high, medium, low secure, adult and child mental health and community health services. The remit of the role covers the delivery of Estates & Minor Capital Operational Services to both the freehold and leasehold properties and appropriate other externally owned properties.

The post holder will have specific responsibility for leading the Estates & Minor Capital operational services team in the delivery of services and associated activity including, but not limited to, Statutory Compliance, Minor Capital, Premises Assurance Model (PAM), Central Returns, and associated operational income generation opportunities. About us #TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day.

We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons. We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers.

We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health. We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network.

These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity. The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment

Job responsibilities

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £20.00 (standard) or £41.00 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £15 per year applies. See attached Job Description & Person Specification.

Responsible to the Associate Director of Estates & Facilities for leading, managing, and directing the Operational Services staff in the provision of Estates & Minor Capital Operational Services, optimised in terms of its efficiency and effectiveness to meet service users, staff and visitor needs within agreed resource allocations.

Person Specification

Qualifications · Essential

Professional Chartership relevant to role Educated to masters / degree level or equivalent in relevant Estates & Facilities professional discipline. Health & Safety qualifications e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH. Qualifications in Project Management. Advanced Qualification (e.g., DMS, MBA, MSc) in Estates & Facilities Management or equivalent.

Desirable

Post Graduate qualifications in Coaching & Mentoring.

Experience · Essential

Extensive Senior Management experience in leading large multi-disciplined Estates & Facilities teams in complex organisations, delivering quality multifaceted services Exceptional level of experience and practical knowledge in the field of coordinating large complex organisational change projects covering service changes, mergers, re-structuring, and modernisation involving many disciplines Extensive experience of managing Estates & Facilities Hard and Capital Service contracts (auditing, monitoring, life cycle costing, payment mechanisms, variations etc.) in relation to PFI contracts, SLA arrangements and all Estates & Capital associated technical and commercial contracts.

Experience in dealing with complicated NHS employment issues (disciplinary hearings, grievances, dismissals, redundancies, appeals), TUPE transfers, restructures, and organisational change. Experience in setting, managing and successfully delivering to forecast revenue budgets and achieving large cost improvement programmes.

Desirable

Experience managing multi-faceted Estates & Facilities teams in complex organisations in the development and execution of strategic service delivery plans. Experience of developing tender bids, presentations, and mobilisation of Estates & Capital services, demonstrating commercial acumen and experience of business and financial planning including analysis and cost profiling.

Training · Essential

Specialist knowledge of the wide range of multidisciplined Estates & Facilities services including Estates, Capital, Property, Logistics, Contract Management, gained through worked experience and academic study. Comprehensive knowledge of the requirements, systems and processes for monitoring and auditing PFI, LIFT and SLA contracts and services.

Desirable

Services that appertain to Estates & Facilities services.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).