Head of Facilities

Recruiting 4 vacancies, HCAS will be allocated based on the site.

RLH & SBH : Inner HCAS

NUH & WXH : Outer HCAS

Barts Health NHS Trust runs one of the largest estates in the NHS, supporting some of the busiest and most complex hospitals in the country. With a strong group model and senior leadership embedded at each site, we’re focused on safe, effective, high-quality environments that enable outstanding care across East London.

We’re now seeking to recruit to four Head of Facilities (Band 8C) roles to join us at a pivotal time. This is a senior leadership role with real scope — overseeing a wide range of Soft FM services at your base hospital while supporting delivery across the wider group. From cleaning and catering to waste, linen, reception and security, you’ll be responsible for services that are vital to safety, experience and wellbeing.

But this is also a transformational role. The NHS is under pressure, and we must deliver more with less — driving innovation, unlocking efficiencies and reshaping services for the future. You’ll help lead that change, working with hospital teams, Estates & Facilities, and Trust-wide transformation partners.

Interview to be held between 12/05/25 and 15/05/2025

You’ll need strong facilities management experience, operational insight, and a passion for improvement. A confident, collaborative leader, you’ll navigate complexity and build strong relationships across clinical and corporate teams.

This is more than a management role — it’s your chance to shape the future of care at Barts Health. If you’re ready to lead with purpose, we’d love to hear from you.

Lead the delivery of Soft FM services and project programmes across your hospital site, including clinical service-led and mobilisation projects. Provide operational leadership to site-based service managers and teams, ensuring consistent performance management, workforce support, and delivery against Trust standards.

Manage external contractors, consultants and suppliers, ensuring delivery is aligned with Trust values, policies, and compliance frameworks. Hold delegated responsibility for operational and capital budgets, procurement activity, and invoice approvals.

Work closely with Estates & Facilities Directors, Soft FM Associate Directors and site leads to ensure services meet KPI outcomes, PAM targets, and compliance with national standards including CQC. Ensure service models support safe, patient-focused care without compromising clinical delivery.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Eileen Phillips Job title: Director of Soft FM Email address:

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