Associate Director (Head of Estates)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Estates & Facilities team to lead our Estates maintenance service as our Associate Director (Head of Estates) at Whipps Cross Hospital.

Whipps Cross Hospital is part of the Barts Health Group, major providers of acute healthcare in North East London. Working in healthcare requires an adaptable approach and hence, in addition to excellent Estates management knowledge, you will be able to communicate effectively, be self-motivated along with the competence to prioritise effectively, coupled with the desire and ability to initiate and embrace new ideas. You will have a passion to deliver high quality estates services that place the patient, public and hospital staff at the centre of the team's activities.

There are well advanced plans to build a new Whipps Cross Hospital as part the NHS New Hospitals Programme (NHP) that is expected to deliver a brand new state-of-the-art net-zero carbon hospital expected to open early in the next decade. As the Head of Estates, you will be involved in the delivery of this scheme and ensuring that the hospital has an Estates team equipped to manage the transition to the new hospital whilst also providing good quality safe services to the substantial existing healthcare estate., Accountable to the Hospital Director of Estates & Facilities, the postholder will provide technical operational leadership and strategic direction for all engineering, infrastructure (including fire) and building activity undertaken on the acute Hospital site. Supporting the Director of Estates and Facilities in delivering all strategic objectives, including the co-ordination of capital, project and back-log programmes, ensuring all technical standards, including engineering excellence and patient safety is at the forefront of Engineering and infrastructure services delivery, through a process of structured accountability and statutory/non statutory compliance in line with the requirements of the HTM/HBN's and supported by a robust Authorised Engineer, Authorised Person and Certified Person structure.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.