Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 24 months (fixed term/secondment until September 2027)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 120-EA751-0925
- Employer
- Velindre University NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 2 Charnwood Court
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £56,514 - £63,623 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre University NHS Trust, which is a committed equal opportunities employer. The Trust welcomes applications from people who share our vision;
Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research.
our values;
- Caring
- Respectful
- Accountable
and who will complement our current experienced and specialist employees who are passionate about working in a Trust that has the ambition to provide world class services and care to patient and donors.
Velindre University NHS Trust holds a special place at the heart of healthcare in Wales. It is also an amazing organisation to work and to develop your career. The Trust comprises of two divisions, Velindre Cancer Centre and Welsh Blood Service. The Trust also hosts on behalf of the Welsh Government and NHS Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and Health Technology Wales (HTW).
Velindre University NHS Trust provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss their employment opportunity with you.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
The Trust also reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process, to enable internal staff requiring to be redeployed in suitable roles.
Posts may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and Professional Registration Check.
For more information on our Trust Employee Reward and Benefit’s Package please visit the Velindre University NHS Trust website.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Job overview
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM/SECONDMENT FOR UPTO 24 MONTHS DUE TO FUNDING
Velindre University NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Estates Manager to lead the Trust-wide estates function, ensuring safe, sustainable, and compliant healthcare environments. This senior role involves strategic planning, operational estates management, capital project delivery, and oversight of compliance across engineering services and critical systems.
1. This post is fixed term/secondment until September 2027. If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post. PLEASE NOTE Applicants will need to get permission from their line manager before submitting their interest, a release form to be included with your application form can be downloaded here. (This form is for the staff member and line manager to complete and return to you)
Main duties of the job
You will act as the Trust’s principal estates expert, advising senior leaders, managing complex construction and engineering projects, and ensuring adherence to statutory, legislative, and regulatory requirements. The role requires strong leadership, policy development, budget management, and the ability to drive long-term infrastructure and decarbonisation goals.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.
Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.
If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.
Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead the development, implementation, and continual improvement of a Trust-wide estates function, applying expertise in estates and facilities management, capital delivery, and strategic asset planning to support safe, sustainable, and effective healthcare environments.
- Ensure Trust-wide compliance with all relevant statutory, legislative, and regulatory requirements through highly technical oversight of engineering services and infrastructure, acting as the Responsible and Authorised Person across critical systems.
- Lead projects from inception to completion, managing highly complex construction and engineering schemes. Develop, implement and review Trust-wide estates and compliance policies, including those that enable delivery of long-term infrastructure and decarbonisation goals.
- Provide robust internal and external audit and assurance for estates compliance, risk management, performance, and policy implementation across the Trust’s estate portfolio.
If you are an innovative, proactive estates professional with excellent technical, leadership, and communication skills, we would like to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Master’s Degree / equivalent in an appropriate discipline or equivalent relevant experience
- • Technical, construction and project management skills
- • Health and Safety knowledge e.g. Health and Safety and Work regulations
- • Legislation with regard to statutory and Health and Safety with regard to the Estate including COSHH, asbestos and legionella
- • Good working knowledge and understanding of environmental sustainability issues and carbon reduction
Desirable criteria
- • Mechanical/electrical engineering qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Estates management background and experience of operational estates management within a hospital environment
- • Significant experience at a senior management level within an NHS estates/ facilities professional role
- • Experience in planning and financial management
- • Experience of managing teams/people/budgets
- • Experience of working with NHS
- • Estates Hospital Technical Memorandums and Building Notes
- • Experience of development of strategies and polices
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of risk management techniques
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to use AutoCAD
- • Highly developed and effective negotiating and influencing skills and ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional and managerial disciplines.
- • Highly developed management skills and the ability to maximise resource utilisation
- • Highly developed and effective verbal and written communication skills
- • Ability to assimilate analyse and present complex problems, identify necessary action, make recommendations and ensure actions are implemented. Understanding of risk assessment principles.
- • Good Organisational skills with practical and methodical project planning and ability to manage a number of concurrent elements
- • Able to work under pressure with autonomy at Senior Management level
- • Evidence of ability to operate effectively with a variety of leadership styles as appropriate to the circumstances.
- • Evidence of the ability to motivate and to enthuse colleagues
- • Evidence of the ability to take hard decisions when needed, or to be firm or compassionate as the situation demands and to be credible at each end of the behavioural spectrum.
- • Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Other
Essential criteria
- • Satisfactory Standard/Enhanced DBS clearance including an/a Adults and Childrens Barred List check (delete as appropriate)
- • Good team player
- • Highly motivated and resourceful with a proactive approach to problem solving.
- • Innovator with a positive attitude and willingness to take responsibility
- • Self-motivated and has the ability to use own initiative The ability to motivate others to deliver sometimes challenging outcomes.
- • Ability to work within a challenging environment Willingness to participate in continued professional development.
- • Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jonathan Fear
- Job title
- Interim Assistant Director of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07432126899
- Additional information
For more information, please contact Jonathan Fear <[email protected]>
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