Deputy Head of Estates

Job summary

Based at Northwick Park Hospital, but covering across sites, you will manage the day-to-day Estates Maintenance Service for the Trust, holding senior and professional responsibility for the effective, safe and compliant delivery of these services. In addition, you will provide support to the Head of Associate Director of Estates and Capital Projects with involvement in exciting and ambitious projects, aimed at developing and improving and services for patients, families and staff.

Main duties of the job

Ensuring the Trust provides Estates services that are safe, whilst optimising the opportunities to provide high quality of patient care.

Ensure the development and implementation of the Estates policies, procedures and systems are fully integrated with the Trust processes and values.

To be responsible for the development and provision of specific areas of the annual business plans for all estate management arrangements, operations and service provision.

To proactively participate in stakeholder groups.

To continue the development and analysis of benchmarking of all estates data at both local and national levels.

Ensure that monitoring and financial management systems are in place to effectively control financial activity within own area.

Responsibility to ensure compliance with legislation, regulation and relevant guidance including Health and Safety matters to minimise risk to patients, staff, and visitors.

To lead and review of service contracts to ensure that the Trust receives high quality, efficient and cost-effective services that meet Trust business and regulatory requirements.

Interpret and comply with relevant legislation, regulation, and best practice guidance.

To monitor service performance through the development, production, and use of key performance indicators (KPIs) to demonstrate the delivery of agreed service standards.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.