NS 4.10 Senior Estates Manager
Job Description
Job summary
Prioirty will be given to NS ICB staff.
Norfolk and Suffolk ICB is seeking an experienced Senior Estates Manager to provide leadership across the Estates and Sustainability function. This is an opportunity to shape and deliver a coherent, innovative and affordable estates strategy aligned with national policy, ICB priorities, local commissioning intentions and service transformation programmes.
As a senior professional lead, you will support the planning, development and optimisation of healthcare estate. Key responsibilities include primary care estates strategy, investment planning, business case development and supporting estate development programmes. You will work closely with Primary Care Networks, neighbourhood teams, NHS providers, local authorities and system partners to ensure estates and sustainability requirements are understood and addressed.
The role includes leadership of estates and sustainability professionals, oversight of budgets and reporting, support for capital investment, and providing expert advice to directors, boards and stakeholders.
We are looking for an individual with senior-level experience, strong analytical and communication skills, experience of leading teams and programmes, and the ability to influence and negotiate with a wide range of stakeholders. You will be able to interpret national policy, manage complex programmes and contribute to strategic planning and service development.
Main duties of the job
Support Director of People, Workforce and Corporate Services in development, review and delivery of the Estates Strategy and Development Control Plans.
Implement the development of performance frameworks, metrics and reporting mechanisms to monitor progress.
To manage planning application response process including local and neighbourhood plan responses to ensure the interests and requirements of health are considered.
The post holder will contribute to sustainability portfolio within the ICB via line management of Sustainability Lead.
Lead development of a Primary Care Estates Strategy aligned with the 10-Year Plan, local access improvement plans, and primary-care transformation programmes.
Coordinate estate implications of PCN service delivery, left shift, ARRS workforce expansion, enhanced access, digital telephony, and multi-disciplinary team growth.
Support practices with premises development plans, capacity planning, utilisation modelling and compliance requirements.
Act as the ICBs senior contact for all primary care premises queries including lease renewals, rent reviews, improvement grants and NHSPS/CHP interfaces.
Act as first point of contact for locality estates issues, providing professional leadership and solutions.
Develop and oversee reporting, ensuring timely, accurate and high-quality information.
Work closely with Neighbourhoods, PCNs, Trusts, and system partners to ensure estates requirements are understood and met.
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9 billion to commission safe, high quality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joined up care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an older than average population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joined up, patient centred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to high quality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
Desirable
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Other
Essential
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher
- Team working skills
- Self-motivated
- Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
- Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values.
- Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop
Autonomy Freedom to Act
Essential
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Equality and Diversity
Essential
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems in the area
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
Experience
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare ...
