Job summary
- Main area
- Estates and Facilities Directorate
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 357-LN-137-25-QIA236
- Employer
- United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals Group
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Head of Estates - Band 8b - QIA Ref 236
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for strategic and operational management for the Estates Operational team across the Group in which includes United Lincolnshire teaching Hospital NHS Trust sites and Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust Sites.
As part of a dynamic estates team operating within the United Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Trust Group you will provide day-to-day leadership, line management responsibilities, strategic and operations project management and co-ordination of a number of complex and Acute and Community Properties which will impact across the Trusts Group Sites. To ensure that our services, practices and resources are effectively applied in order to help deliver Estates Maintenance Services within timescale and to budget.
The post-holder will play a proactive part in the senior management team and be responsible for liaising with a range of service leads (both clinical and non-clinical), staff, service users and external stakeholders, in order to ensure full engagement and success of all Estates delivered services.
Responsible for compiling business plan, developing strategy for area of activity, ensuring implementation and that performance targets, strategic objectives are met; contributes to corporate policies and strategy.
Main duties of the job
- To be a member of the Estates & Facilities senior operational management team, participating in the overall management of the Directorate’s activities and the achievement of the corporate objectives of LCHG.
- Develop and implement effective channels and systems of communication, including written and verbal, formal and informal, so as to ensure that Corporate and relevant Departmental information is disseminated in a timely and appropriate manner within the maintenance team.
- Responsible for developing and planning complex works programmes and activities where there is a requirement for analysing and comparing a wide range of complex options to ensure that time and resources are effectively managed and allocated to provide a value for money service
- To ensure that all LCHG Policies and Procedures, which relate to governance, risk and CQC standards, are implemented within the facilities department, followed by all staff, and are regularly audited.
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Provide effective leadership, influencing and motivating functional managers and the management of staff, which promotes high performance standards, both individually and as a team, in the achievement of LCHG objectives and priorities.
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To act as budget holder for Estates budgets.
Please see Job Description for full details
Working for our organisation
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, or equivalent, plus specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate courses, and experience to masters or equivalent level in an engineering or building related subject
Desirable criteria
- Management Qualifications to Diploma level
- DP/RP/AP training and experience
- Accredited H&S qualifications e.g NEEBOSH, IOSH
- Evidence of continued professional development
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven Estates management Experience in a senior level in a complex organisation, to include staff management/ supervisory responsibilities and change management in a unionised environment
- High level of regulatory knowledge, skills and experience in maintenance services
- CAFM and strategic skills, knowledge and experience in the effective development and management of assets and PPM strategies
- High level of understanding and management of Finances, in particular SFI's within a Healthcare organisation
- Procurement experience in the development of specifications, tenders in estates services and contract management
- Broad and high level experience in Regulations, statutory, mandatory and best practices for estates maintenance services
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS Acute Hospital experience, including good level of HTM/HBN and other DoH Guidance
- Confident in the use of Computer software packages such as Excel, Work, Power Point
- Experience and knowledge of CAFM Systems
Knowledge, Skills and Apitudes
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills with a particular emphasis on influencing and negotiating to manage and deliver contractual SLA compliance, exercising diplomacy and tact in sensitive situations
- Excellent prioritisation skills to effectively manage competing and/or conflicting demands
- Ability to analyse and solve complex operational challenges
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.
- Ability to interpret complex legislative information and technical specifications and apply policy and/or service development.
- Ability to manage large revenue budgets covering physical assets and projects across multiple sites.
- Excellent Project management and negotiation skills
- Excellent presentation skills, confident communicator and high quality written reporting skills
Desirable criteria
- Well understood financial management and budget understanding
- Well-developed IT skills.
Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Able to cope with a fast moving challenging role.
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within both the public and private sectors.
- Ability to engage with staff, local communities and service users/customers as part of a programme of work to deliver better results.
- Demonstrably able to work in a fluid and highly dynamic environment.
- Able to work with a great degree of flexibility and adaptability.
- Extremely diligent in the processing of complex information to ensure accuracy and efficacy.
- Ability to deal with frequent periods of intense concentration.
- Customer focused and driven on by fulfilment in reaching high standards/quality.
- Flexible, pragmatic and innovative approach to problems and working practices.
- Empathetic and willing to use a range of communication skills to achieve goals.
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as plan and organise own and team’s workload.
- Able to perform and deliver under pressure of competing deadlines/difficult circumstances.
Desirable criteria
- Good leadership skills and ability to manage multi-disciplinary design teams.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stuart Whitehead
- Job title
- Group Head of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07786027363
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