Bank Head of Facilities | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you interested in leading a crucial service in the healthcare sector? We are looking for a dedicated professional to manage and deliver high-quality domestic cleaning, patient catering and linen services. In this role, you will oversee the delivery of essential services, manage contracts, and ensure compliance with NHS standards.

Key responsibilities include leading service delivery, managing resources, developing training, and ensuring patient safety across domestic and catering services. You will collaborate with NHS and external stakeholders to maintain the highest standards of care.

If you have expertise in facilities management, contract leadership, and service delivery in a healthcare setting, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Interviews will be held on 10/01/2025.

Provide professional skills and expertise to lead the domestic cleaning and patient services across a generic range of proactive & reactive action; ensuring high quality delivery of this work.

To deploy specialist contract management advice to the multi-million pound service contract/s taking a lead role as the interface between clinical staff, and the service provider, leading the development of a cohesive forward looking domestic cleaning and patient catering service, along with ancillary services such as linen and laundry.

Responsible for ensuring all relevant receive appropriate training and education and be responsible for developing generic and targeted training across domestic services, patient catering, food hygiene and basic nutrition topics as it relates to the patient menu offer ensuring the Trust complies with all relevant NHS guidance and legal requirements.

To work on behalf of the Trust to deliver an environment that is safe and secure so that the highest standards of clinical care can be made available to patients, by working in close partnership with stakeholders within the NHS and external organisations.

Develop and deliver the necessary strategic strategies and associated business cases, covering operational, physical and technical needs of all services and focusing on delivery of service over 2 & 5 year plans, contributing to strategic and annual business planning for Capital, Estates & Facilities Management., At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.