# Head of Estates

**Company**: Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: Redhill
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £66,582 to £77,368 a year
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Head of Estates to provide strategic and operational leadership for Hard FM services across Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and its associated properties.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Estates, you will oversee building, engineering and maintenance services, ensuring that our estate remains safe, compliant, efficient and responsive to the needs of patients and clinical services.

You will bring significant senior estates management experience gained within healthcare or another highly regulated environment, together with strong leadership, financial, contract-management and stakeholder-engagement skills.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape the future delivery of Estates Services while supporting patient safety, service continuity and the Trust's wider strategic ambitions.

**Job Responsibilities**

The successful candidate will have:

- Significant experience in a senior estates management role within healthcare or a highly regulated environment

- Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to motivate and lead a team

- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills

- Experience of managing large-scale estates projects and services

- Knowledge of NHS estates management and relevant regulations

**About Us**

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust runs East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, where we have more than 700 beds and provide acute and complex services. In addition, we provide a range of outpatient, diagnostic and less complex planned services at The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital, Crawley Hospital and Horsham Hospital.

Every year, over 120,000 people attend our Emergency Department, we deliver nearly 4,000 babies and almost half a million people have outpatient appointments with us.

We are a major local employer, with a diverse workforce of around 5,500 staff providing healthcare services to a growing population of some 744,000 people.

**Benefits**

As part of our team, you will have access to excellent training opportunities, flexible working, dedicated support networks, and a strong emphasis on health and wellbeing to ensure a thriving and positive work environment.

## Skills

### Required
- estates management
- leadership
- financial management
- contract management
- stakeholder engagement

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