Band 8d Associate Director of Estates - Bath

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an Associate Director of Estates in Bath to provide strategic leadership for Estates Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Sustainability and Capital Projects. You will shape the Estates Strategy, capital programme and Net Zero ambitions, ensuring safety, compliance and resilience across the Trust’s estate.

You will lead high‑performing teams, manage significant budgets and work with NHS partners to modernise infrastructure while

Job description

The Associate Director of Estates is a senior leadership role responsible for providing strategic direction, professional oversight and assurance across all aspects of the Trust's estate. As the Trust's senior estates professional, you will lead estate operations, statutory compliance, sustainability and capital development programmes, ensuring the estate remains safe, compliant, resilient and fit for the future. Working closely with the Chief Transformation, Estates and Digital Officer, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering the Trust's Estates Strategy, Capital Programme and Net Zero ambitions, supporting high-quality patient care and organisational priorities., You will provide strategic leadership across Estates Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Sustainability and Capital Projects, ensuring the Trust's estate remains safe, compliant, resilient and fit for purpose. You will lead the development and delivery of the Trust's Estates Strategy, Capital Programme and Net Zero ambitions, oversee major infrastructure and redevelopment projects, manage significant budgets and provide expert advice and assurance to the Executive Team and Board. Working with staff, partners and regulators, you will drive continuous improvement and support the delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives.

This is an opportunity for an experienced estates leader with a strong track record of delivering major capital projects, driving service improvement and managing compliance within a complex organisation. You will provide expert advice to the Executive Team and Trust Board, lead high-performing teams and work collaboratively with NHS partners, regulators and stakeholders to secure investment, modernise infrastructure and support service transformation across the Trust.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.