PFI Contract Manager

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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 three 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

An exciting opportunity has arisen with NELFT Estates Directorate for the appointment of a PFI Contract Manager band AFC 8a. The Trust has a range of both owned and leases properties across NEL, Essex & Kent. The property portfolio comprises of a mixed building stock of private financial initiative property, LIFT PFI property, NHSPS lease property and a range of directly leased and owned building stock.

The post would ideally suit a legal graduate with a background in PFI concessions and management. An important component of this post is the Trust's current portfolio will expiry in 6 years and there is a substantial body of work to be achieved by the PFI contractor in condition NHS B standard over the coming years.

The postholder will work in close liaison with the PFI company and develop strong working relationships with the clinical and nursing staff who occupy the PFI estate.

Systematic and regular performance management of the PFI is required in all of the Trust's PFI building are located in North East London. The Trust has other properties in Essex & Kent.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will achieve the role by:

• Provide comprehensive support to the Director of Estates in all aspects of the delivery of contract monitoring in relation to the PFI contracts and services, ensuring compliance with contract terms, specifications and Key Performance Indicators.
• Responsible for ensuring strategic planning of PFI contracts is in line with trust strategic direction managing across multiple contract areas and able to analyse and interpret PFI policy and legislation and apply in the management of PFI contracts.
• Work closely with the NHS PFI unit advisory body to ensure compliance of PFI contracts, reviews, schedules and ensure that the concession obligations of the PFI contracts are discharged monthly to provide an effective service and contractually agreed maintenance is completed in all PFI buildings.
• Responsible for ensuring monthly performance data is prepared and published on all PFI buildings in respect of concession requirements, service deductions and penalty points are applied.
• Communicate at all levels of the organisation including matrons, ward managers, directors and patient groups via regular reporting, email, face to face and formal presentations of monitoring outcomes.
• Chair Service Review groups when required and lead negotiations with contractors regarding contract mitigations and challenge damage reports.

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.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place great importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted 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 have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

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).

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. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or experience gained through training & experience in property management or Law.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial experience in the delivery of Estates and Facilities Management services within the healthcare environment.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries to improve standards.
• Experience of developing strategic planning recommendations for PFI contracts
• Experience of managing staff
• PFI Contract Management experience

Desirable criteria

• Previous relevant experience in an NHS, Local Authority or similar setting

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of an understanding of contractual and commercial aspects of hard & soft Facilities services.
• Detailed and advanced knowledge of PFI legislation, policy and contracts
• Evidence of experience of undertaking audits and surveys in relation to contract monitoring, compliance with KPIs, Health & Safety and other compliance frameworks.

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.

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Documents to download

• PFI Manager (PDF, 410.4KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)