Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.
We have an exciting opportunity for an estates and facilities professional to join us as Head of Estates, with a proven track record in delivering capital development programmes, you will lead the ongoing development of an expanding healthcare portfolio and deliver a high quality and inspiring and safe environment for our service users and colleagues.
Reporting to the Group Procurement Director, the Head of Estates will be responsible for ensuring that all buildings, infrastructure, hard and soft facilities, capital equipment, vehicles and all supporting contracts are managed and maintained to ensure that all offices and residential service environments operate in a secure, safe and efficient manner. The role will also involve managing the regional property managers, roaming maintenance teams and the reactive property maintenance support centre
This is a hybrid role allowing remote work from home or from our head office in London Waterloo, with a requirement to travel to sites frequently.
What you'll be working:
- 37.5 hours per week
- Monday to Friday
What you'll be doing:
- Offering property expertise to the leadership team, ensuring they are regularly briefed on significant developments or risks, whilst producing business cases to support existing building development plans and new service development opportunities
- Participating in the business planning process, taking the lead in crafting pertinent business and strategic plans for the property function
- Overseeing the compliance and work standards of contractors and suppliers through regular monitoring and supervising the creation of risk assessments, method statements and pre-contract information
- Coordinating tender processes and administering contracts alongside procurement colleagues
- Collaborating with consultants to prepare and submit planning and building regulation applications, designs, and engineering solutions as required
- Leveraging expertise to address environmental concerns from a building and land management perspective
- Be responsible for managing the health, safety and environmental compliance across the group
- Manage the estates effectively in line with the business model, ensuring the maintenance of a well invested freehold portfolio, with responsibility for the cost-effective management of all existing and future leases
- Manage and deliver projects within budget whilst providing advice on the formulation of the group’s annual budgets and capital investment programme
About you:
- Degree level qualification in building surveying or a related technical subject
- Previous experience leading a property function
- Strong knowledge of current property legalisations and different types of construction
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with the wider organisation
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Previous estates and facilities management experience with proven knowledge of building legislation and regulations
- Health & Safety qualifications - minimum IOSH health and safety in the workplace
- Good organisational, business risk and financial awareness
- Attention to detail
- Takes responsibility
We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A Nest Personal Pension account
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
- We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group