NHS Forth Valley is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Head of Estates to lead the effective management of our estate across all sites. This key senior leadership role within the Facilities Directorate is responsible for ensuring that our hospitals, health centres and other settings are safe, resilient and fit for purpose.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership for all Estates functions, ensuring a safe, compliant and efficient built environment across the estate.
* Lead and develop planned and reactive maintenance services, ensuring continuity of operations in a complex 24/7 healthcare environment.
* Ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory and NHS Scotland technical requirements.
* Oversee a diverse portfolio of minor capital and backlog maintenance projects, ensuring robust governance, value for money and high‐quality outcomes.
* Lead, support and inspire engineering, maintenance and technical teams, promoting a culture of professionalism, accountability and staff wellbeing.
* Provide expert advice to senior leadership, clinical services, project boards and external partners.
* Ensure effective financial and resource management, including budget planning, monitoring and reporting.
* Build and maintain strong working relationships with clinical teams, operational managers, external contractors and regulatory bodies.
About You
* A relevant Estates related degree to Masters level or equivalent experience.
* Significant experience managing complex Estates or Facilities functions, ideally within the NHS or a similar large‐scale environment.
* Strong working knowledge of healthcare technical standards, compliance frameworks and engineering systems.
* PPP/DBFM contract monitoring experience.
* Demonstrable experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
* A track record of delivering capital projects and infrastructure improvements is desirable.
* Excellent communication, negotiation and stakeholder‐management skills.
* A forward‐thinking, collaborative approach aligned with NHS values.
The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information about this scheme can be .
NHS Forth Valley is positive about disabled people and is committed to offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination.
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