Job summary
- Main area
- Operations and Facility Services
- Grade
- Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-AGHS7428178
- Employer
- AGH Solutions Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Steeton
- Closing
- 10/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
AGH Solutions - Director of Operations
Executives / VSM: Executives / VSM
AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.
We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.
Job overview
We are delighted to share with you an exciting opportunity for the role of Director of Operations of AGH Solutions Ltd (AGHS). AGHS is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) and commenced trading in March 2018. AGHS are proud to provides a wide range of services from estates maintenance to capital projects, facilities management, sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement services to the Trust supporting Airedale’s clinical services and other customers, mainly in the NHS all services being essential to support the provision of health and care to the communities we serve.
The successful candidates will be joining our organisation at an exciting time with a real opportunity to shape the development of AGH Solutions at a time when Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is embarking on the development of a new health and care facility through their participation the National New Hospital Programme.
Closing Date: Wednesday 10th September
Interviews will be held week commencing 6th October 2025
Main duties of the job
The AGHS Director of Operations role are pivotal role in leading the customer / supplier relationship between AGHS and the Trust along with meeting expectations of the shareholder/subsidiary relationship. The successful candidate will help develop a strong profile and reputation for AGHS and across estates, facilities and procurement sectors whilst remaining committed to NHS values. Leading cultural change and initiating AGHS innovations as part of a continuous improvement commitment in its drive for best practice in the services it offers.
AGHS is an exciting workplace that will provide the right candidates with an opportunity to grow and develop themselves and the future of the company.
Working for our organisation
The Trust is an active partner in the award-winning West Yest Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), with two other partners in WYAAT also undertaking substantial capital investment in their estates. The Trust is also active in its Place Partnership, Bradford District & Craven, one of five of the Places which comprise the award-winning West Yorkshire Health & Care Partnership. This commitment to working together with Partners gives further opportunity to AGHS and its future strategy, as well as to the Trust To find out more about the Trust you can visit www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Thriving people, healthy communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details of the job please see attached full advert , job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to Masters level (or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience, ideally 5+ years)
- • Specialist knowledge gained through extensive relevant experience in Facilities (and/or Estates) Management in the private or public sector
- • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive senior level manager experience, in a large complex organisations with indirect line management responsibility of over 200+ colleagues
- • Experience of multi-agency planning and service delivery
- • Demonstrated delivery of project management and change management
- • Significant budgetary management experience
- • Evidence of meeting challenging targets
- • Previous experience of undertaking senior manager on call responsibilities
- • Specialist experience in soft FM environment is essential
- • Acting as sole internal advisor in relation to soft facilities management
- • Board level experience in the private or public sector
- • Experience dealing with major incidents within a large organisation would be advantageous
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of NHS structure and organisation and targets would be advantageous
- • Knowledge of Business Continuity
- • Understanding of current developments within the NHS would be advantageous
- • Knowledge and experience of management of teams across several disciplines in complex 24/7hr business
- • Knowledge and understanding of best Facilities practices
- • Highly proficient in the use of standard IT packages for Word Processing and Spreadsheets and Project Management software etc.
- • Understanding of Health & Safety issues relating to soft FM
- • A track record of achieving sustained organisational/service change and improvement with evidence of embedding culture and organisational values successfully and achieving employee engagement delivering improved outcomes in quality, performance and service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Dennis Kentrop
- Job title
- Managing Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294826
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