Community Premises Manager

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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

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust is looking for people with the right values, skills and potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise and enthusiasm to help us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of care for our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Estates & Facilities Department for an experienced Community Premises Manager, Band 8A with excellent values-based leadership qualities.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work in conjunction with Trust legal advisors to negotiate, develop and agree leases with 3rd party contractors and Trusts.

Candidates should hold a current full driving licence as the postholder will be required to undertake frequent travelling between sites.

The postholder will provide expertise, skills, knowledge and experience in Hard and Soft Facilities services, people skills, effective communication and application of Service Level Agreements.

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

Accountable to the Head of Contracts & Performance, the post holder will be responsible for ensuring that all relevant LGT community sites receive a robust, proactive and reactive, cost effective Hard and Soft Service by contractors, NHS Property Services and LGT Retained Estates by monitoring the service provided I line with agreed contracts and Service Level Agreements. This includes properties that the Trust own and all properties where we are tenants.

For full details of the role and responsibilities please refer to the job description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to masters level or relevant experience
• A degree in a relevant discipline e.g. Facilities Management, Contract Management, Engineering services
• Post holder shall have relevant management qualifications with substantial experience in a premises management role.
• Post holder must hold a current full driving licence.
• Demonstrates continuing professional development in relevant field

Desirable criteria

• Certificate or diploma in management or relevant equivalent experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Developed financial and budgetary experience.
• A background of contract management or Facilities Management.
• Demonstrates experience of development and implementation of governance and assurance policies and procedures for all aspects of the Estates & Facilities services, including 3rd party contractors.
• Post holder to demonstrate experience in undertaking audits.

Desirable criteria

• Drafting of Service Level Agreements and property leases
• Experience of working in the NHS

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate specialist knowledge of statutory and mandatory requirements
• Understanding of how to deal with complaints effectively.

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 (PDF, 396.6KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)