Head of Estates Maintenance & Compliance

This is a new leadership role to deliver the estates maintenance and compliance requirements across the Trust's large and dispersed mental health and community health service Estate.

The post holder will be the specialist lead responsible for ensuring our estates maintenance services support a safe and compliant estate. They will bring specialist skills and expertise to improve delivery of the Trust's buildings performance and ensure the Trust operates within the defined Estates operations budget to support the achievement of Living Within Our Means cost saving targets.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the strategy for supporting and ensuring alignment of consistent and compliant standards across all Trust Estates services.
• Be responsible to the Chief Estates Officer and to act as their deputy as required across Estates services, ensuring that there is an effective and efficient Estates maintenance and compliance service across the Trust.
• Be professionally accountable and take lead Responsible Officer role for the Trust's estate, ensuring the applicable statutory, mandatory and compliance standards, Trust policy requirements and best practice codes are implemented and maintained in response to legal obligations, professional advice and NHS guidance.
• Provide professional leadership and advice on the Trust's estate to other estates staff and senior managers of the Trust.
• Take the lead role in relation to the performance improvement and monitoring of the Estates maintenance services within the Trust and with external partners, ensuring that requirements are met and delivered in a timely and efficient manner within cost, time and quality.
• Manage and deliver continued operational development of the Estates maintenance team, provide detailed professional & technical advice and guidance to Trust staff, contractors and consultants on issues that may be complex and non-routine for energy management, engineering plant and equipment and critical patient safety systems, infrastructure and services.
• Provide engineering and technical support on sustainability issues, sustainable development and the carbon reduction and energy management plan.
• Lead on the issues related to maintenance of existing physical assets. Ensure the risk register /asset register and backlog maintenance register are populated with realistic, accurate and up to date information and lead on the reduction of Estates related risks.
• Take a proactive role within project teams and project boards so as to contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust's overall, and Estates, and Facilities strategies.
• Manage and be responsible for managing planned and reactive maintenance works and small projects, ensuring works are delivered in a timely and best value manner, in line with Trust SFIs and schemes of delegation.
• Monitor, maintain and update Trust policies that are owned by the Estates team, whether delivered directly or through contracted or sub-contracted services of the Estates and Facilities team.
• Lead and manage the Estates & Facilities Compliance Team to ensure that there is effective compliance and asset management in aspects of Estates & Facilities including installations, services, systems and work activities.
• Manage the Estate on all sites in a safe condition in accordance with Statutory Obligations, Codes of Practice, Health Technical Memoranda and Department of Health Guidelines.
• Produce detailed reports for the Estates & Facilities department, Trust Executive Team, Board sub committees as required.
• Lead and direct the compliance team so that systems are in place and updated and reports provided as required to evidence effective compliance and asset management.
• Meet all statutory and legislative requirements in relation to Estates & Facilities compliance and ensure the provision of key information to external regulatory bodies as required.
• Manage commercial and contractual discussions in a professional manner.