Head of Estates

Atlas BFW Management Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a separate entity, the company has its own board of directors and articles of association.

The Trust and Atlas have worked together to expand and diversify the customer base. With so many opportunities, Atlas is moving forward at pace and looking for a new Head of Estates to ensure the highest levels of service delivery and compliance from a 60-strong  multi-disciplinary team.

Core responsibilities:

• Take the lead on shaping the future provision of estates services at Atlas. This will include the strategic development of services to ensure they are high quality, progressive, responsive to internal and external demand and fully support the strategic direction of the company and the future operational needs of the service delivery contracts
• Be responsible for the development and implementation of the on-going long term Atlas Estates Strategy and the associated delivery plan, ensuring that any related financial and estates management resources are correctly planned and prioritised
• Support the company’s annual business planning process, including the production of appropriate estate plans, which should be flexible where possible, to allow for any potential adjustments, that may be required, to meet the changing needs of the service
• Have overall responsibility to ensure that professional standards of service delivery, workmanship and production are maintained at all times and that all estates building and engineering services are delivered in accordance with national standards and statute, mandatory controls and regulations, the estates strategy and related policies and procedures
• Have overall responsibility for direct multi-disciplinary engineering trades and contractors and specialist contractors undertaking a variety of complex and highly complex work in the estates environment
• Ensure all work is appropriately planned, prioritised, sequenced and executed to the agreed programme and standard and delivered within budget
• Plan and deliver, through the senior estates management teams in both the acute and community services, the active management of all aspects of hard FM services, making optimal use of the resources available
• Have overall responsibility for ensuring that estates division business continuity contingency plans and emergency procedures, for use in the case of estates service loss, in respect of all operational functions, are developed and available for implementation if required. In addition, ensure that all related plans are communicated to and fully understood by all estates staff
• Be the company’s nominated officer with regards to the management of estates statutory compliance ensuring that both Atlas and its clients comply with all aspects of estates statutory and HTM/ HBN compliance
• Ensure that Atlas and its client keeps abreast of any changes in legislation and guidance appertaining to Estates, providing specialist compliance advice to the general estates team and where necessary, to the company’s clients
• Liaise with the Head of Quality, Risk and Compliance to ensure that appropriate Quality Assurance (QA) and compliance systems are implemented throughout the Estates function and ensure that key responsibilities and deadlines are met
• Develop and embed robust governance, systems and processes throughout the Estates division and maintain and keep updated all estates related policies and procedures

Summary person specification:

• Educated to degree or HNC/ HND level in an engineering discipline e.g. building services, electrical or mechanical engineering AND significant senior management experience in a similar role and environment
• Has held Authorised Person duties in several HTM disciplines
• Management qualification or equivalent leadership experience
• Detailed knowledge and experience of and proficient in the use of estates computer management systems, for example building management software / database systems (BMS) and computer aided facilities management (CAFM), MICAD
• Experience of managing a large multi-disciplinary estates service within an environment of comparable scale and complexity
• An excellent understanding of national guidance on NHS estates management processes.

A full job description and person specification is available upon request