Facilities Director: Sponsorship Available

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Facilities Director will provide strong and inspirational leadership to ensure provision of excellent facilities/support services in order to promote high quality patient/client care in a complex combined acute and community setting in one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide effective leadership of non-clinical functional managers across a range of professions to empower individuals within the Directorate to take appropriate decisions which meet the needs of patients, visitors and staff. This will require effective partnership approaches with other providers, agencies and NHS organisations.

The postholder will use their specialised knowledge across the full range of facilities services to provide expert advice on the interpretation and delivery of national initiatives and local standards on a professional basis relating to, for example, cleaning, security, food safety, waste management etc. In particular this will require knowledge of Laundry and Patient Food Production to advise in respect of the Trusts in house Laundry and Food Production Unit.

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Person Specification

Education

Essential

  • Maters
  • Facilities Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of managing hospital support service/ Facilities Management of which a substantial proportion should be at a Senior Management strategic level in a complex environment
  • Proven leadership skills and track record of directing a broad range of activities
  • Provision of expert advice for board and sub-board colleagues.
  • Experience of managing complex employee relations issues.
  • Experience of implementing change management through consultation and negotiation with staff organisations and senior managers outside of the Facilities discipline, clinicians and other stakeholders.
  • Management of substantial capital and revenue budgets across a range of services.
  • Identifying and delivering cost improvement programmes
  • Experience of letting and managing commercial contracts

Desirable

  • Experience of having responsibility for management of hospital laundries and/or food production units

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to produce, present and analyse complex reports
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to influence both internally and externally at the highest level.
  • Proven ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels in Facilities Management.
  • Ability to prioritise work to meet changing deadlines.
  • Ability to demonstrate behaviour in line with the Trust PROUD values and the NHS England Code of Conduct for NHS Managers.
  • Understanding of risk management and its application within a Facilities setting.

Desirable

  • Evidence of successful project management.
  • Experience at a Senior level within a large organisation outside of Facilities Management
  • Skilled in Quality Improvement techniques

Other

Essential

  • Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
  • Personal and professional demeanour and credibility that generates trust and confidence in others.
  • Highly motivated and not easily discouraged.

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 November 2026

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