About this role
Job summary
The Estates teams at The Royal London and Mile End Hospitals are responsible for the day-to-day repairs, maintenance and operational testing of a wide range of building services and critical infrastructure across the Trust. As Director of Estates, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to these teams, ensuring high-quality, compliant and responsive services across all sites.
You will oversee the management of both retained and PFI estates, ensuring robust performance, contract compliance and value for money. The role also carries Trust-wide responsibility for Fire Safety and Health & Safety across the relevant sites.
We are looking for a highly motivated, flexible and experienced estates professional who can demonstrate:
A strong understanding of HTMs, ACOPs, BS/EN standards and SFG20.
Extensive experience managing statutory compliance in a complex healthcare environment.
Proven leadership in maintenance, engineering and contractor management.
Demonstrable experience managing PFI contracts within a large-scale estate.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to senior leaders and clinical teams.
Strong financial acumen and experience managing budgets within an NHS setting.
A positive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to lead teams through challenge and change.
Main duties of the job
Lead and manage the operational estates functions across the Royal London and Mile End Hospital sites, ensuring safe, compliant and efficient building services.
Oversee the performance and contractual delivery of the PFI estate at Royal London Hospital, ensuring high standards and effective partnership working.
Provide expert leadership on statutory compliance, including water hygiene, electrical systems, asbestos, fire safety, medical gases and HVAC systems.
Ensure all estates activities align with HTMs, ACOPs, British Standards, EN Standards and SFG20 maintenance specifications.
Lead and develop multidisciplinary teams, promoting a positive, proactive and high-performing culture.
Provide clear, authoritative advice to senior clinical and non-clinical leaders on estates risks, issues and operational challenges.
Manage delegated budgets effectively, ensuring financial control, value for money and alignment with NHS financial governance.
Contribute to strategic planning, service development and long-term estates improvement programmes.
Participate in the Trust's on-call rota, providing out-of-hours leadership across all Barts Health sites.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledgerequired. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Management of operational Estates services for maintenance and development of Estates, facilities and property Experience of managing building project teams Experience of CAFM, BMS and CAD design
Desirable
Experience of working within a PFI
Skills Essential
Experience in managing change Able to provide expert advice on a wide range of engineering issues
Knowledge Essential
Wide technical knowledge, including legislation, HTM's and HBN's
Desirable
Understanding of capital programmes Awareness of NHS plan and modernisation agenda
Qualifications Essential
Degree in engineering/ Building services or equivalent experience Chartered membership of an appropriate institution
Desirable
Post graduate qualification
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.
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Employer details Employer name Barts Health NHS Trust
Address Royal London Hospital
London
E1 1FR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)