Head of Estates – NHS Forth Valley
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.
Successful candidates must be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.
NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society and is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among its workforce. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and will provide reasonable adjustments where needed.
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