Band 8b Estates & Facilities Management (EFM) Operations Lead

Location: London  

Job Type: Temporary 

Duration of booking: Expected to last 3 months with possible extension?

Proposed start date: ASAP

Pay Rates: Up to £49 - £43 PAYE inclusive of holiday pay

Hours / Working Days: 37.5 hours per week / Monday to Friday, 8am – 5pm 

Sector: Healthcare 

Based: Office / Hospital 

You will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, Monday- Friday between the hours of 8am and 5pm. This role also offers a Work From Home option when working on specific tasks, however this needs to be flexible and not a weekly occurrence.

Should you be interested in this vacancy, you will be required to have;

Education / Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification in an estate engineering related technical category. 
• Educated to degree level or equivalent level 7 qualification in an estates related technical category. 
• Specialist qualifications relating to NHS estates management e.g. Authorised Persons across Electrical / Mechanical / Water trades 
• Membership of a professional body relating to the role such as CIBSE, IWFM, IHEEM. 
• Evidence of recent continuing personal development. 

Experience 

• Demonstrable experience in interpreting statutory requirements and advising on what information best suits compliance requirements. 
• To have previously managed a multi-disciplined hard and soft FM department more than £5 million in value. 
• Successful implementation of performance monitoring systems with a 
• Evidence of NHS management at a senior operational level, managing a large multi-disciplined hard and soft services department in a complex healthcare environment being able to demonstrate how they have navigated its known diverse situations and issues. 
• Experience of managing muti-million-pound budgets (both financial reporting and procurement processes). 
• Demonstrate how they have optimised physical and human resources across asset management, maintenance, energy and carbon outputs balancing against safety and compliance constraints. 
• Provide evidence of analytical reporting on performance data regarding engineering operations and facilities systems, identifying trends and variances and producing robust recovery plans. 
• Evidence of building working relationships across various stakeholder groups, exercising their professional judgement across a wide range of EFM related complex systems amidst the conflicting demands of the service. 
• Demonstrable high levels of written and oral communication skills within a broad range of professional settings. 
• Experience of developing and writing policies and procedures. 
• Provide verifiable examples of their ability to delve deeply into complex technical estate infrastructure problems, deriving innovative and cost-effective solutions. 
• To be conversant in and understand HTM and HBN guidance

Knowledge 

• Expert knowledge of EFM relevant national legislative regulations./ guidance and their application in a healthcare setting. 
• Knowledge of internal NHS and external national compliance frameworks. 
• Demonstrate operationally evidenced deep understanding of setting up and managing IWMS and associated CAFM systems, 
• demonstrating advantages of integrating data streams for efficiency and analytics. 
• Demonstrable understanding of contract management including standard forms of contract (NHS/JCT/NEC) and procurement options.
• Understanding and commitment to equality and diversity 
• Excellent understanding of change management and performance management processes, with a proven record of successful delivery. 

Skills/abilities 

• Ability to engage staff verbally and in writing, to openly communicate complex ideas to a range of audiences and to generate trust and confidence in individuals at all levels both internally and externally to the organisation. 
• Ability to identify risk and minimise risk effectively. 
• Ability to establish effective and collaborative working relationships and engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally to resolve issues. 
• Strong leadership with the ability to think and plan strategically and to exercise sound judgement in the face of conflicting pressures to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems 
• Ability to absorb new technical information quickly and use a range of IT systems to best effect.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise, meet prescribed deadlines with the ability to manage a complex workload under pressure and delegate to deliver to varying deadlines. 
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills demonstrating high levels of attention to detail and high standards of accuracy particularly with budgeting and resource allocation procedures. 
• Ability to reflect on experience and identify lessons learnt. 
• Excellent staff management skills including motivating and coaching staff and managing capability/grievance/disciplinary issues, as required.

Personal qualities 

• Professional individual with a pleasant disposition. 
• Flexible approach to working. 
• Willingness to travel in the course of performing duties. 
• Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the trust values at all times.