Job summary
- Main area
- project and programme management
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-NCA-AC154-25
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Hospital
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Property and Space Management
Band 8c
Job overview
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking applications from high calibre senior estates and facilities leaders to join the Group Capital, Estates and Facilities Team.
Stakeholder panels will be held on the 28th July virtually followed by a face to face interview with the panel on the 29th July.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Property and Space Management post is a key member of the Capital, Estates and Facilities senior management team.
The role provides senior leadership for the Trusts property portfolio and programme for improved space utilisation across the four Northern Care Alliance footprints of Bury, Rochdale, Fairfield and Salford including the community assets and acute sites.
The post holder will be accountable for the management of properties including lease management and working in partnership with other public sector organisations to optimise the use of estates across the NCA footprint.
The role will include leadership for improvement work to optimise and use space effectively and efficiently.
The post holder will work closely with colleagues within the Estates and Facilities team as well as senior leaders across the NCA and Executive Team.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree or equivalent job related experience in healthcare planning/healthcare facilities
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Chartered Membership of an appropriate institution in architecture, engineering, facilities management, surveying, building, property (e.g. RICS) or equivalent
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of managing a large property portfolio, including the negotiation of leases and licences, and delivering cost saving efficiencies.
- Knowledge of lease management
- Extensive experience working at a senior management level in a large complex organisation preferably within the NHS.
- Managing and implementing change at a senior level.
- Experience of delivering large scale transformation programmes in a large and complex organisation
- Information and or finance management and analysis of complex financial data.
- Exposure to solving issues, preferably within a complex healthcare environment.
- Experience of developing alliances and partnerships within and across organisations.
Desirable criteria
- Detailed knowledge of, and demonstrable experience in, the application of best practice programme and project management methodologies.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions.
- Willing to challenge existing practice and be able to do so successfully
- Highly developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, with ability to gain and maintain credibility at all levels of the organisation, including with senior clinicians and external partners.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
- Highly proficient in the use of standard office software
- Able to manage multiple and complex projects including reporting and tracking of plans and action
- Exposure to solving issues, preferably within a complex healthcare environment
- Able to analyse data and draw conclusions based on this
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nadine Armitage
- Job title
- Director of Capital, Estates and Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 3240
- Additional information
For further information please contact Nadine Armitage, [email protected], Director for Capital Estates and Facilities.
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