Job description

Job responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To manage the operational delivery of ADMKs facilities services across the Trust, ensuring services are safe, effective, compliant, patient-focused, and provide value for money.
• The post holder will lead facilities teams and contractors, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, NHS standards, trust policies, and service level agreements.

Operations:

• Manage and develop the ADMK domestics team.
• Facilitating stakeholder engagement through regular building user group meetings.

Contract management:

• Monitor outsourced contracts and service provider.

Information Management:

• Work with senior managers to review and investigate incidents, identifying any emerging trends or changes in incident profile of the organisation, in order to adopt any learning to mitigate future risk.

Human Resources:

• Responsible for the management of a team, sometimes through others, working across the estate to plot and manage team objectives and to assure their and your own opportunity to fulfil potential through training and development.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential

• Degree in Estates Management, Facilities Management or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of working in healthcare

Desirable

• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Health and Safety qualification (e.g., IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent).
• Membership of IWFM or a similar professional body

Experience

Essential

• Experience within estates and facilities management in a large complex organisation.
• Experience managing domestic/Soft Services teams.
• Experience of managing directly employed staff and contractors.
• Experience of statutory and mandatory compliance management.
• Experience of service performance monitoring through KPIs and SLAs.

Desirable

• Experience managing operational maintenance services and engineering systems.
• Experience of budget management and financial control.
• Experience of undertaking risk assessments and implementing corrective actions.

Skills

Essential

• Intermediate level of IT skills
• Able to quickly learn in house systems and to manipulate and retrieve data.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Able to deal effectively with a variety of people including staff and other professionals.
• Accurate attention to detail
• Excellent negotiation and liaison skills

Personal and people development

Essential

• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Commitment to NHS values.
• Able to work effectively under pressure, meet deadlines and prioritise workload in a challenging and demanding environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to deal sensitively and sympathetically with highly emotional situations.
• Flexible approach to work.
• Able to work independently, from independent location

Communication

Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with colleagues, clinicians, patients, contractors and senior stakeholders.

Specific requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently between sites for business purposes and to attend training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

ADMK Limited

Address

43A W62511 ADMK Estates Management (Dept)

Milton Keynes

MK6 5LD

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)