Assistant Estates Manager PFI & Contracts

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Assistant Estates Manager, PFI & Contracts to work within the Estates & Facilities department at Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support the Estates Manager, PFI & Contracts in the day to day management of 2 Hard FM PFI contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual terms, key performance indicators, statutory and mandatory regulations and assist the Trust to fulfil its strategic and operational aims.

Applicants should have significant experience of the delivery of Estates & Facilities management services within a healthcare environment and have extensive knowledge of the management and monitoring procedures and methods of Estates & Facilities PFI contracts.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will support the Estates Manager, PFI & Contracts in overseeing the performance of contractors. In particular, ensure that Hard FM contracts are compliant with contract specifications, include pre-planned maintenance regimes and statutory and mandatory obligations and other regulatory requirements.

For full details of the role requirements please refer to the job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Graduate Masters Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Desirable criteria

• PRINCE2 qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience on the delivery of Estates & Facilities management services within a healthcare environment.
• Considerable Estates & Facilities management of contracts and monitoring procedures and methods.
• Significant experience of undertaking audits in relation to contract monitoring, compliance with KPI's
• Significant experience of using CAFM systems

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a PFI environment

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Proven knowledge of H&S, water regulations, fire regulations and other relevant legislation in relation to health premises
• Knowledge of HTM's and other health related guidance on Estates management
• Good understanding of contractual and commercial aspects of hard facilities services
• Ability to cope with difficult situations, differing demands and deadlines
• n depth knowledge of project management methodologies and techniques In depth understanding of quality improvement techniques
• Able to understand drawings and use Autocad to view.
• Excellent IT skills including Excel, Word
• Ability to define, collate and turn data into management information
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Strategic awareness
• Excellent negotiation and persuasion skills
• Excellent report writing skills

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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

• JD Assistant Estates Manager PFI & Contracts (PDF, 305.7KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)