Estates Manager

Velindre University NHS Trust; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Cardiff is seeking an experienced Estates Manager to lead its estates function. The successful candidate will oversee strategic planning, operational management, and ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks. Key responsibilities include managing complex projects and providing leadership in budget management. This is a senior role requiring strong leadership and project delivery skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in estates management within healthcare or complex regulated environments.
• Strong leadership, policy development, budget management, and project delivery skills.
• Ability to work with senior leaders and navigate statutory, legislative, and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Trust's principal estates expert, advising senior leaders.
• Manage complex construction and engineering projects, ensuring compliance.
• Provide strong leadership and drive long-term infrastructure goals.

Skills

Leadership

Budget management

Project delivery

Job description

Overview

Velindre University NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Estates Manager to lead the Trust-wide estates function, ensuring safe, sustainable, and compliant healthcare environments. This senior role involves strategic planning, operational estates management, capital project delivery, and oversight of compliance across engineering services and critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Trust's principal estates expert, advising senior leaders, managing complex construction and engineering projects, and ensuring adherence to statutory, legislative, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide strong leadership, policy development, and budget management, and drive long-term infrastructure and decarbonisation goals.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Proven experience in estates management within healthcare or complex regulated environments.
• Strong leadership, policy development, budget management, and project delivery skills.
• Ability to work with senior leaders and navigate statutory, legislative, and regulatory frameworks.
• English and/or Welsh language applicants are welcome.

About Velindre

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.