Associate Director of Estates and Compliance

at  Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for details. ROLE SUMMARY Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT) has an estate of some 140 sites ranging from a 100 Bedded Secure Unit down to a single room in a Medical Centre building. Several properties are leased from NHSPS plus local authority and independent landlords. In reverse we lease our own properties to other Trusts.
There are two PFI properties in the portfolio and we have some wholly owned properties all of which add to complexity of maintaining the Estate. In recent years separate estates teams in the North/South and West Essex have been brought together under EPUT and the process of merging the teams is ongoing. The Associate Director of Estates and Compliance has overall responsibility for the entire Essex Partnership University Trust Maintenance, Compliance, Technical and Sustainability functions and associated engineering systems. Plus the oversight of the estate backlog maintenance and the estates patient safety programmes.
The post holder will ensure that the estates support services run efficiently from both a technical and financial perspective which will include the management of a budgets circa £9m both revenue (including Hard FM and utilities) and allocated capital budgets. The post holder will be educated to Masters level and have a strong association with a professional body. The post holder will have overall responsibility for the continued safe operation of the estate and the day to day oversight of the granular detail that provides safe and effective outcomes that are measured against a combination of national standards and locally agreed quality metrics. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The post holder is responsible for monitoring the Estates Departments Operational efficiency along with strict compliance against the National Safety Standards and Regulatory Procedures as set out in HTMs and HBNs and the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and other statutory mandates.
This responsibility extends to the complete EPUT estate as a single unbounded entity. The post holder will regularly monitor the maintenance task flow performance across the EPUT Estate, while supporting the ISO Quality Management system vison and outcomes. Additionally the Associate Director of Estates and Compliance will ensure the correct resources are available to deliver the services required. He/she will support the development of the Estates staff training programme to ensure the current and long term competencies are available to deliver both the Trust objectives and the Estates Maintenance Strategy

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