Interim Senior Estates Manager

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you an experienced Estates engineering and infrastructure professional who enjoys tackling complex operational challenges, building strong partnerships and delivering measurable improvements?

East London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Senior Estates Manager to lead a focused 12-month improvement programme at the City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health, located within the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust estate and Trustwide.

This is not a business-as-usual Estates management role.

It is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a high-profile improvement programme, bringing together ELFT, Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT), suppliers and local clinical teams to improve maintenance performance, strengthen compliance oversight, resolve longstanding operational issues and enhance the experience of staff and service users.

You’ll join a progressive Estates team responsible for more than 130 sites across London, Luton and Bedfordshire, helping us deliver safe, sustainable and patient-focused environments that support outstanding healthcare.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading the management and improvement of Estates and Facilities services with a focus on engineering and infrastructure.
  • Taking ownership of longstanding issues and driving actions
  • Improving responsiveness, service visibility and stakeholder confidence .
  • Leading work to address recurring infrastructure issues, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.
  • Strengthening oversight of PPM, statutory compliance and lifecycle replacement programmes.
  • Supporting asset validation, condition assessments and the development of accurate asset and maintenance records.
  • Monitoring maintenance performance, analysing trends and implementing improvement actions.
  • Managing partner, contractor and service provider performance to ensure agreed standards and value for money.
  • Supporting the development of revised service level agreements, performance measures and governance arrangements.
  • Providing leadership and support to local Estates teams, including clarification of roles and responsibilities.
  • Working closely with clinical, operational and facilities colleagues to improve the patient, service user and staff environment.
  • Acting as the Estates lead for the mobilisation and operational embedding of the HHFT Soft FM contract.
  • Identifying and embedding sustainable operational improvements that remain in place beyond the life of the fixed-term appointment.

(Please see the job description for the full range of responsibilities.)

Person Specification

Education, Training & qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to a Master Degree level or equivalent experience with working knowledge of managing a team and the understanding of service performance from contracted service providers.
  • Used to working under pressure and change.
  • Trade qualifications / completed apprenticeship.
  • Practical on-site management of maintenance and or installations

Previous Experience

Essential

  • Substantial Health Service experience within Estates & Facilities functions, or similar environments
  • Quality Performance Monitoring understanding using various methods – e.g., Electronic Data systems.
  • To have substantial Operational experience of delivery and managing a Hard FM / Maintenance service and dispute resolution through contract performance.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • Highly developed negotiating skills and able to manage disputes to resolution.
  • Excellent Communicator – oral and in writing
  • Highly effective organisational skills
  • Ability to understand a complex multi – million pound contract to support the Contract Manager with local issues.
  • Ability to communicate at all levels – this would include Patient Groups as well as patients & all staff.
  • Computer literate
  • Experience of Managing a Team of people.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Understanding of maintaining/writing Estates & Facilities Policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
  • Knowledge of Minor Projects in a supporting role.
  • Trained in a capacity to manage and maintain Health & Safety guidelines within the Directorate in a supporting role and to ensure team compliance.
  • Full knowledge and understanding of the Operational requirements of delivering a Hard FM service

As Per JD

Essential

  • As per essential criteria

Desirable

  • As per desirable criteria

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 19 July 2026

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