Estates Procurement & Contracts Manager

at  Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

This role will be an essential part of our Estates and Facilities team based at East Surrey Hospital and have oversight of all essential contracts ranging from critical plant maintenance through to Grounds keeping.
In-Line with the Trust’s draft Master plan, the Procurement and Contracts Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the Estates Engineering stores is maintained effectively and essential minimum stock supply (EMSS) is maintained at all times to aid reactive and planned maintenance. The post holder will also need to demonstrate excellent communication skills as the requirement for regular meetings with our contractors and suppliers is invaluable. In order to ensure that best practice is followed and service levels are maintained to the highest levels, the Procurement and Contracts Manager will be responsible for setting up regular meetings and reviewing KPI’s and other criteria associated with quality and best value for Trust money.
This role will assist the senior leadership team within the Estates and Facilities department in evaluating current and future contracts and to better demonstrate effective use of public money within a diverse and complex healthcare setting.
In addition to the above, this position will cover the day-to-day management of the Estates Help desk and ensure that effective communication is maintained through our dedicated CAFM (Computer aided facilities Management System) at all times. The coordination of this small team will benefit all of the other operations within the estates Department and aid financial control of the Engineering Stores and ensure that the team can effectively communicate with other members of the team at East Surrey Hospital and our off-site locations more effectively.
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
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Please refer the Job description for details