Director of Estates

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of our estate. As Director of Estates, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across out extensive property portfolio and facilities services. You will play a visible and influential role within the Trust, ensuing that our estate is safe, compliant, sustainable and aligned with our clinical ambitions. Central to the role will be the development and delivery of the Trust's Estates Strategy. which includes leading major capital projects such as the redevelopment of Goodmayes Hospital.

A key aspect of the post will be driving our Green Plan, ensuring that our estate reflects our commitment to sustainability and supports the Trust's environmental goals.

We are seeking a highly experienced and inspirational leader, with the expertise and resilience to manage complex, estates functions and the ability to shape service that reflect the needs of the Trust both now and in the future. Should you join us, you will be part of a supportive and values-driven leadership team, committed to improving outcomes for our residents and services users. We will also invest in your professional development and wellbeing, recognising that compassionate leadership is central to delivering high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

The role will;
1) Provide strategic and operational leadership to our estates infrastructure and facilities services and play a key and visible role within the Trust's senior management team to drive our ambitions forward.
2) Be responsible for delivering safe, responsive, and cost-effective estates and facilitates services for the Trust, with a clear focus on quality and customer service.
3) Be responsible for the Trust fire compliance providing leadership to the Fire Manager and the fire accessors
4) Be responsible for the Health and Safety and security function and give leadership to the health and safety manager
5) Be responsible for the assurance and legislative compliance of estates functions.

Working for our organisation

Our Values 2025 - 2030

Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.

They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period.

Starting with Us

NELFT places great importance on new starters being properly welcomed into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, including mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend several drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part time).

On-call allowance payment
This post will be required to participate in the Trust on-call rota and attracts a payment of 0.75% of the basic salary.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust.

All applications should be sent to: apply@hunter-healthcare.com.

Applications should include:

• A covering letter - of no more than two pages - explaining why the appointment interests you, how you meet the appointment criteria and what you specifically would bring to the post.
• A Curriculum Vitae (CV) with education and professional qualifications and full employment history. Please include daytime and evening telephone contact numbers and email addresses. The CV should include names and contact details of three referees. References will not be taken without your permission.
• A completed Diversity Monitoring Form and Fit and Proper Peron Monitoring Form (available on the candidate pack). Please note that the information you provide will be treated as confidential, and is for monitoring purposes only. It will not form part of the application process.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Masters in appropriate area or revelant experience
• Degree and technically qualified in FM or engineering services
• Chartered engineer

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in the NHS in Estates and Facilities management role at a very senior level
• Experience in an Estates related supervisory or management role or can demonstrate an aptitue for management based on experience as a qualified crafts person
• Experience in management Estates and Facilities contracts

Knowledge

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of health service management

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Director of Estates (PDF, 456.6KB)
• Candidate Pack Director of Estates (PDF, 699.8KB)
• Candidate Recruitment Pack (PDF, 671.2KB)