Job summary
- Main area
- Estates & Facilities
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-NN-7476036-E&A-DK
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £97,283 - £111,278 pa pro-rata incl HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Director of Estates Strategy and Capital Programme
Band 8d
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
The Associate Director of Estates Strategy and Capital Programme is responsible for the design and delivery of the estate strategy, space development across Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust, commercial development assurance, governance processes to ensure a safe and effective environment is provided at all times and delivery of the capital programme. This is a crucial leadership role in the delivery of the estates capital programme and oversight of major strategic projects affecting the delivery across the Trust.
Main duties of the job
You will need to develop an excellent understanding of the potential of the PLACE portfolio and to help drive efficiencies to optimise the portfolio, through property consolidation, capital development, enabling disposals, driving value from lease events and where relevant the “right-sizing” of new developments. Recognise the increasing overlap between Acute, Primary Care, and Community based services in the context of the contrasting nature of the facilities, that each Estate Strategy has traditionally had to address. Today, the imperative to reduce operating costs, implement clinical service change across the wider health economy, minimise capital investment, deliver higher levels of utilisation, and resolve estate liabilities all combine to demand a realistic platform for partners to collaborate on maximising estate opportunities.
Working for our organisation
Development and staff wellbeing
Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed. We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.
To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.
We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.
Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will operate in a complex environment and develop effective strategy and capital policies for promoting innovation across the capital programme and E&F Directorate
• Design, develop and drive strategic insight across services that support the wider system
• Develop future vision for estates strategies, which will impact over 3600 staff reforming organisational change
• Accountable for the effective management of an estate asset management system
• Manage delivery of the trust Estate Capital Portfolio identifying examples of national and international best practice to ensure that the trust benefits from innovations.
• Holds budget responsibility for the annual plan associated to the Estates Capital Programme
• Develop and champion new initiatives or projects as necessary
• Working with providers and clinical experts to design new training products
• Provide expertise of best practice methodologies regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge
• Provide strong leadership to Strategy and Project teams, ensuring that effective management and performance systems are in place and key result areas are achieved.
• Nurture leadership potential and talent to develop high performing teams of managers who work to key performance indicators and are held to account for service delivery.
• Provide support and direction via objective setting, appraisal and personal development plans to line reports.
• Lead on the procurement and contract management of subcontracted services ensuring SFI’s are adhered to and good business practice is maintained.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Capital and Estate experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership
Education
Essential criteria
- Relevant qualification as per job description
Desirable criteria
- work place continued professional development
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
Artificial Intelligence: We kindly ask that you refrain from using AI tools to draft your application, as we value authentic, individual responses that reflect your own communication style.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Tomlinson
- Job title
- Director of Estates and Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07720769041
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