Strategic Lead – Estates Operations
NHS | Band 8b (Subject to AfC Evaluation)
Location: Shrewsbury & Telford, Shropshire (Multi-Site)
Salary: NHS Agenda for Change Band 8b
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
The Opportunity
Finegreen is working in partnership with an NHS Trust in Shropshire to recruit an experienced Strategic Lead – Estates Operations to provide senior operational leadership across a complex, multi-site healthcare estate.
This is an excellent opportunity for an established Estates professional to take responsibility for the delivery of safe, compliant and efficient operational estates services, leading multidisciplinary teams and ensuring critical buildings, engineering systems and infrastructure are maintained to the highest standards.
Reporting to the Head of Estates, the successful candidate will play a key role in driving operational performance, statutory compliance, service improvement and workforce development, ensuring estates services effectively support frontline clinical delivery.
Key Responsibilities
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Provide senior operational leadership across multiple hospital sites, overseeing planned and reactive maintenance services.
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Lead and develop multidisciplinary Estates teams, including operational managers, supervisors, technical specialists and contractors.
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Ensure statutory compliance with NHS Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), Health Building Notes (HBNs), Approved Codes of Practice (ACoPs) and relevant HSE legislation.
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Act as an Authorised Person / Responsible Person for relevant technical disciplines.
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Oversee operational risk management, safe systems of work, contractor management and asbestos compliance.
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Develop and implement operational maintenance programmes, service improvement initiatives and performance standards.
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Manage delegated budgets, contracts and resources, ensuring effective financial control and value for money.
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Provide technical leadership and operational assurance to senior Estates management.
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Oversee engineering infrastructure, plant performance, business continuity and emergency response arrangements.
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Utilise CAFM systems to monitor maintenance performance, compliance and service delivery.
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Support sustainability, energy efficiency and operational modernisation initiatives.
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Participate in the Estates senior management on-call rota.
The Ideal Candidate
We are seeking an experienced Estates leader with a strong technical background and a proven track record of managing operational services within complex, highly regulated environments.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
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Significant senior management experience within Estates Operations, ideally gained within the NHS, healthcare or a similarly complex environment.
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