Physiotherapy dept staff

The Role

“Seize the opportunity to make a physical impact on our community services”

Director of Estates & Facilities

Managerial Accountability to: Managing Director - Provider Services
Salary: Dependent upon experience, in the region of £70,000 plus pension, lease car and relocation package where appropriate
Location: Southgate House, PCT HQs

Why Should You Apply?

If you’re excited by an opportunity to shape and implement a strategy that will make radical and immediate improvements to people’s lives, alongside developing sector leading service and patient care pathways, you will relish this one.

Taking the existing estates and facilities strategic plan, you have an enviable opportunity to make your footprint on how we will deliver our future investment programme.  Building on the work we have been doing to raise our clinical effectiveness, in this role, you can transform the settings from which we will safely deliver truly outstanding community services for our local people.  Using your natural strategic leadership & influencing skills, together with your operational management skills, you have an ideal platform to bring together key partners and stakeholders to help us deliver:

  • Three new primary care centres
  • GP led primary care development in Westbury
  • Service-redesign and enhancements across all community based services

The estates and facilities department is long established and well resourced.  Your team comprises 5 departmental heads and 255 staff (159 WTE) and has an operating budget of £7.8million.  Looking to the future, you will have a clear insight on how you can apply your leadership skills to invigorate your team’s performance.  Internally you will ensure your team is highly visible within the organisation and clearly focused on delivering solutions for customers – whoever they may be. 

Current NHS commissioning policy and strategy, linked to the drive to build world class commissioning organisations, is placing increased demands and challenges around ownership of the estates infrastructure.  In this role, you will play a crucial role in influencing and determining what this will look like at a local level.  This will require you to work very closely with the PCT to develop and implement plans and policies that ensure both the estates infrastructure and facilities management services deliver outstanding added value support that facilitates staff to provide high quality, cost effective patient care every time.  

Reporting to the managing director, you will be a pivotal part of the senior leadership team and contribute to the strategic development of the business and its relationship with the commissioning organisation.  You can shape and develop this role and so this is an ideal opportunity to gain invaluable leadership experience, which could advance your future career considerably.

Job Summary

In this role you will be the professional lead on all estates, facilities and related compliance responsibilities for Wiltshire Community Health Services (WCHS) and NHS Wiltshire.  You will have a corporate board leadership role with WCHS.  Patient Safety together with providing support to all staff so that they can provide high quality care, at the right time, every time for our patients and service users.

This is an exciting and challenging roles that will require you to:

  • Make patient safety your number one priority for WCHS, NHS Wiltshire and client organisations
  • Support the achievement of recurrent financial balance
  • Meet the full range of national and local service targets
  • Develop and strengthen commissioning and service redesign across the PCT
  • Contribute to an agreed strategic service development plan across the PCT, and the reconfiguration of clinical services in line with this plan
  • Making effective partnerships with communities and health and social care organisations in NHS South West and neighbour organisations in NHS South Central.

Job Purpose

  • Develop a coherent and robust estates strategy, which supports and enhances the delivery of high quality patient care. 
  • Responsible for the planning and delivery of estate/capital schemes across the PCT to ensure the delivery of high quality health care.
  • Responsible for ensuring the effective performance and management of Facilities Management Services.
  • Actively participates and contributes to the overall development of PCT’s & provider services.
  • To manage the PCT’s commercial agreement with the PFI provider.

Full Information Pack

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For a more detailed conversation on how this role can help you progress your career please contact Simon Potts on 07770 786 933.