Assistant Director - Property and Estates Strategy

ESNEFT are seeking a proactive and commercially focussed Property Leader with experience in Property and Estate Management to join the ESNEFT Estates and Facilities Division Senior Management Team as the Assistant Director for Property and Estates Strategy. Ultimately, you will be responsible for ensuring the trust has safe, functional, sustainable and value for money property assets and is using them in the most efficient way to best enable the delivery of great healthcare and experience. A formal Property Qualification is essential for this role For more information or to organise an informal visit please contact Shane Gordon.,

• Develop and maintain the trusts property strategy (i.e. what property and where) ensuring it aligns with the clinical strategy
• Implement the trust property strategy to improve the functionality, safety and sustainability of the estate whilst improving the financial position.
• Manage the finances of the property and estates strategy including all income and expenditure (pay, non pay, rent, rates, service charge, PFI, management costs, income etc)o Develop and maintain the trusts development control plan and associated master plan for each of the main sites.
• Develop and maintain the trust's estates strategy (how we use the property determined in the property strategy) ensuring it aligns with the clinical strategy with consideration of the following overall outcomes
• Work with the divisions, estates and capital team to identify the requirements of the future and develop the trust's 5yr capital plan to enable the trust's property and estates strategies.
• Identify and access multiple funding routes to deliver the trust's capital plan, writing the initial strategic case (SOBC) for each and then working with the Estates team to develop the outline case (OBC) and full case (FBC).
• Work with the estates team to ensure the annual backlog maintenance plan aligns with the overall estates strategy
• Manage and develop the team, developing the level of property capability within the trust
  
  We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients. We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you. Find out about living and working here -www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A