Associate Director Estates & Facilities Operations

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

NHS Pension

Staff discounts

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior leader to provide strategic and operational leadership for Hard and Soft Facilities Management across its mental health estates. You will oversee high-value outsourced FM contracts, ensuring safe, compliant and cost-effective services aligned with clinical needs.

The post holder will develop in-house FM teams, manage performance, financial control and contractor accountability, and represent Estates & Facilities in senior meetings.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience in hard and soft FM.
• Proven track record in managing high-value outsourced contracts.
• Strong understanding of NHS estates and facilities governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for FM across NLFT estates.
• Oversee outsourced FM contracts ensuring safety, quality and cost-effectiveness.
• Develop in-house FM teams and ensure contractor accountability.

Skills

Facilities Management

Contract management

Strategic leadership

Commercial acumen

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Job description

The postholder will provide senior strategic and operational leadership for the delivery of Hard and Soft Facilities Management services across the Trust's extensive estate of mental health services and sites. The role will have overall responsibility for the effective management, performance and commercial governance of the Trust's high-value outsourced Facilities Management contracts, ensuring the delivery of safe, compliant, high-quality and cost-effective services that support the Trust's clinical and operational requirements. The postholder will lead and develop the Trust's in-house Hard and Soft FM management teams, providing professional leadership, direction and oversight of contract management, operational performance, financial control, service improvement and contractor accountability. The postholder will be required to demonstrate substantial expertise in Facilities Management, together with excellent commercial acumen, contractual knowledge and the ability to manage complex supplier relationships, negotiate effectively and protect the Trust's financial and operational interests. The postholder will act as the nominated deputy to the Director of Estates & Facilities in relation to operational Estates and Facilities matters, representing the Directorate at senior management meetings, Trust committees and other relevant forums as required.

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.