Facilities Manager

Job summary

Job Title: Facilities Manager

Trust: Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Location: Farnham Road Hospital in Guildford with travelling to various local sites. Pay: £26.88 per hour

Hours: Monday to Friday 08.00-16.00 (37.5 hours per week)

Are you an experienced Soft Services Facilities Manager with a proven track record and a desire to work in public healthcare? Can you communicate effectively to stakeholders and meet their expectations whilst working to budgets, timeframes and within compliance frameworks?

If you answered yes, then Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust would love to hear from you right away.

The role is to provide cover for up to 3 months with the potential to extend depending upon the return of the incumbent and makes a great entry opportunity for an external Soft Facilities Manager to make a real difference in the services offered on site, as well as directly impacting the longevity of the facilities that our NHS teams will use for years to come.

Overview

The Facilities Manager has a wide range of responsibilities including acting as interface between the Trust Corporate and clinical operational teams to ensure that services are delivered and monitored in line with service delivery and business needs, seeking assurance of the statutory and mandatory compliance at the main site and satellite locations.

Main duties of the job

Covering residential homes and corporate premises of the Trust responsible for the upkeep of soft facilities on-site, including catering, cleaning, building maintenance, environmental services, security and the reception/communal areas.

To directly line manage key heads of FM service, ensuring services are delivered in an effective and efficient way and resources are fully utilised, this will include supporting a broad range of employee relations areas, including but not limited to recruitment & retention, training & development, appraisals, MAST compliance, Employee Relations, Policy Compliance.

To provide leadership, support, advice, and guidance for staff who line manage other staff within the directorate.

To work with the Directorates Senior Management Team to support the continuous improvement of the facilities/soft services and the development and implementation of associated performance reports.

Identifying changing demands on services, developing, and implementing plans to meet them and supporting the change management process e.g., National Standard of Healthcare Cleanliness.

To directly line manage administrative staff within the directorate, ensuring cover is maintained 24 hours per day, this will include clerical staff, reception, and the expansion of the Facilities Helpdesk function.

A full list of duties and responsibilities can be provided upon request.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

In return for your commitment, NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you many fantastic benefits:

Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!

First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England.

Dedicated consultants.

Flexible working options.

Free DBS and free training.

Build holiday allowance.

Support when you need it 24/7 365 days.

Stakeholder pension scheme.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.