Estates Manager (Operational) | East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Eastbourne, BN21 2UD |
| Company: | ESHT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6234978/374-JY869 |
Summary
We are seeking an individual to Lead our Eastbourne District General Hospital Estates Team. You would be joining an established team at an incredibly exciting time in the hospitals evolution, with several multi-million pound projects completed or under way we are now embarking on the next chapter of our journey under the New Hospitals program.
Are you a great people manager, focused on maximising your team’s potential without losing sight of the day-to-day requirements of a 450-bed acute hospital?
Can you balance multiple competing demands?
Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of our patients and staff?
Then you could be the person we are looking for.
This position plays a vital part in ensuring that patients are cared for in a safe, secure, and suitable environment, and that clinical and support colleagues have a suitable environment in which to work. That all statutory and legislative requirements placed on the Trust as an employer are met and compliance is demonstrable with suitable records available as support. To develop and maintain an evidence-based process to provide the trust board/commissioners the necessary assurance and to enable the prioritisation of both capital and revenue investment decisions.
Providing the strategic lead for the Team at Eastbourne, aligning all maintenance activities with the strategic objectives of ESHT and the Estates and Facilities Division. Create a department culture that ensures that all staff are aware of how their activities support the organisational aims. Provision of advice and guidance to other departments as necessary. Act as the advocate for Eastbourne protecting the integrity of the site and its assets by active participation and engagement with other departments.
The Estates Manager (Operations) will: -
• Be responsible for the development and efficient delivery of statutory compliant engineering services under their control at EDGH. This includes the management of specialist contractors.
• Provide leadership and direction to the Operational Maintenance department, taking the lead with the Head of Engineering in developing the strategy for the department in line with the Trust’s overall strategy and transformation programmes. This will include playing a key role in identifying opportunities for innovation and modernisation, the delivery of all operational performance targets and Trust objectives, financial management, commercial development, and general management.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 May 2024
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