Strategic Head of Estates

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

As Strategic Head of Estates, you will play a key role in shaping the future provision of estates services within the trust. This will include the strategic development of services to ensure they are high quality, progressive, responsive to internal and external demand, patient focused and fully support the strategic and future operational needs of the service delivery and associated contracts.
You be responsible for leading the development and implementation of strategic business development plans and a strong governance framework to provide and evidence that all services are safe, fit for purpose, efficient and effective for patients and staff including relatives and visitors.
You will help to maintain and develop strong and effective links with all key stakeholders, which will involve deputising for the Associate Director of Estates & Facilities for all matters relating to safety and quality of operational estates.
Reports to the Associate Director of Estates & Facilities.
The post holder will liaise directly with general managers, clients appointed by the Trust, design teams, various estate staff, capital projects team and various external professional bodies and organisations, consultants and contractors.
The Post Holder will provide guidance and line management for Head of Estates.
The Post Holder will be responsible for the estates strategy and the accountable lead for the performance of all external contractors and professional consultants appointed
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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