Contracts Manager (Estates and Facilities)

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent in Estates & Facilities management. Or have relevant commercial experience, with a proven track record
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria

• NHS experience working at a Management level within Estates & Facilities services or similar role that demonstrates the ability to successfully deliver with the necessary commercial skills
• Substantial experience of managing highly complex contract related issues of significant value in a large multi-disciplinary organisation; particularly healthcare or public sector
• Substantial experience of managing Estates and Facilities related contracts in an organisation with a complex and varied estates portfolio
• Demonstrate proficient and practised experience in dealing with contractors in providing services within a contractual framework, and have an expert knowledge of the principals of monitoring contracts against indicators and performance standards
• Experience of supporting contract tendering processes including working understating of procurement rules.
• Leadership experience in working with executive and senior colleagues including managing and presenting complex information and messages
• Experience of working with stakeholders - external and internal
• Experience of budget management including working knowledge of budget setting, financial processes, ability to analyse forecast/expenditure
• Experience of handling confidential and sensitive information in accordance with the Data Protection Act and commercial requirements

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplined Facilities Services environment.
• Significant involvement in leading change management.
• Experience of presenting papers and reports to public sector risk-related committees
• Experience of being involved in legal procedures and processes
• Line management experience

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of Estates & Facilities Management/FM related contracts and monitoring procedures, including up to date knowledge of the standards pertaining to Healthcare provider organisations.
• Well-developed analytical skills applicable to the delivery of complex data analysis and ability to manipulate, interpret, compare and present such information to different audiences
• Ability to work autonomously to effectively plan, prioritise, organise, monitor and control all activities within areas of team responsibility to meet deadlines and operational requirements, working to tight and often changing timescales
• Ability for frequent concentration for analysis, report writing, meetings etc. with frequent interruptions to deal with service issues

Desirable criteria

• A working knowledge of relevant legislation and statutory requirements including an understanding of food hygiene and health and safety at work regulations, NHS Plan, PEAT, NHS cleaning codes of practice and NHS policies and standards including infection control
• Experience in policy development and management.
• Experience in interpreting national policy for implementation and application to internal policy

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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Documents to download

• Contracts Manager (Estates & Facilities) (PDF, 760.3KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 439.8KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 720.3KB)