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Job summary

Main area
PFI Monitoring Team - Core Team
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
259-7162406GSS-A
Employer
Barts Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Canary Wharf
Town
London
Salary
£44,806 - £53,134 per annum inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Barts Health NHS Trust logo

PFI Performance Monitoring Officer (Hard FM)

Band 6

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

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.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

***previous applicants need not apply***

Reporting to the PFI Associate director to support the PFI Contract monitoring officer with the programme of co-ordination, implementation, and delivery of the Compliance responsibilities and provide assurance that effective and responsive processes are maintained across the Barts Trust sites.

Main duties of the job

To act as a member of the PFI Management Team with specific responsibilities to audit the Hard Facilities Management services provided by the Project Co’s under the Private Finance arrangement at Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Newham Hospital . 
The post holder will monitor all governance and performance matters related to all PFI service performance, contract administration, managing relationships, as well as conducting various Hard FM audits.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

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 knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree level qualification or equivalent
  • BTEC technical with experience in an operational or monitoring post
  • Delivering multi FM services and/or PFI Schemes experience
  • Highly developed knowledge of FM or technical services in a Healthcare environment.
Desirable criteria
  • Be a member of a recognized professional institute i.e. CIBSE; BIFM; IFMA or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of 5 years supervisory/management experience within a Hard Facilities Management environment.
  • Experience of working with contracted out support services.
  • NHS experience, preferably within either an acute environment.
  • Good understanding and training in contract management; project management
  • Skills to manage change.
  • Analytical skills: the contract manager will need to be able to analyse the contractual documents and put in place practical monitoring processes regarding the provisions of the project.
  • Detailed knowledge and experience of developing, negotiating, tendering and managing complex high value contracts, such as PFI agreements or contracts

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good written and verbal communications – both one to one and within a group setting.
  • Computer literacy including MS Office.
  • Excellent negotiating skills.
  • Ability to plan rotas and review workforce needs in relation to changes in service provision.
  • Ability to assess individual competency and identify training needs.
  • Possess self-motivation and have the ability to work under own initiative monitoring service provision and generating action plans and executing them.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Strong leadership and persuasion skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure and possess good time management skills balancing and achieving numerous deadlines.
  • To hold the aptitude and ability to communicate at all levels with internal and external clients demonstrating an empathic approach in challenging circumstances.
  • Excellent negotiating skills.
  • Clear written and verbal communications
  • The post holder be required to flexibly hours occasionally, when workload requires.
  • Ability to move freely between sites and within the sites. Some bending and stretching required but for a defined period.
  • Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Green@Barts HealthNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyLondon Living Wage is a voluntary commitment made by employers, who can become accredited with the Living Wage FoundationPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Pregnancy Loss PledgeDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Janard Gopakumar
Job title
Associate Director PFI Estates
Email address
[email protected]
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