Facilities Director

Sheffield-Teaching-Hospitals-Nhs-Foundation-Trust; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Facilities Director to lead non-clinical services across a large hospital network. You will guide facilities, cleaning, security, waste, and food production units to support high-quality patient care.

You will engage with senior stakeholders, drive cost improvements, and shape strategic estate plans within a complex NHS environment in Sheffield. This is a full-time, on-site leadership post with competitive NHS benefits.

Qualifications

• Led facilities or estates functions within a complex organisation.
• Experience delivering high quality facilities management in healthcare.
• Strong influencing and communication skills with senior stakeholders.
• Proven track record of budget management and cost improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership of non-clinical facilities managers.
• Lead facilities services to deliver high quality patient and client care.
• Advise on interpretation and delivery of national standards in facilities.
• Drive continuous improvement within Facilities Services and PROUD Futures.
• Manage in-house Laundry and Food Production units and related contracts.
• Present complex reports and support strategic decisions at board level.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Project management

Risk management

Quality improvement

Education

Maters

Facilities Management Qualification

Job description

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £100,000 - £120,000 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 03/12/2026

Facilities Director

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The Facilities Director will provide strong and inspirational leadership to ensure provision of excellent facilities/support services in order to promote high quality patient/client care in a complex combined acute and community setting in one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide effective leadership of non-clinical functional managers across a range of professions to empower individuals within the Directorate to take appropriate decisions which meet the needs of patients, visitors and staff. This will require effective partnership approaches with other providers, agencies and NHS organisations.

The postholder will use their specialised knowledge across the full range of facilities services to provide expert advice on the interpretation and delivery of national initiatives and local standards on a professional basis relating to, for example, cleaning, security, food safety, waste management etc. In particular this will require knowledge of Laundry and Patient Food Production to advise in respect of the Trusts in house Laundry and Food Production Unit.

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Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide professional leadership and support to deliver high quality facilities management services across the Trust
• To be a visible and relatable leader for Facilities Services.
• To provide effective leadership of Facilities functional managers to empower individuals to take decisions which meet the needs of patients, staff and visitors.
• To take responsibility for delivering continuous improvement within Facilities Services to support improving standards of patient care.
• Ensure that the Directorate embraces the aims of PROUD Futures and delivers against specific workstreams such as harmonization of Portering services.
• To provide expert advice on a number of specialized areas in respect of complex matters relating to managing the Trust’s Facilities Management function.

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Please note the interview process for this post will be held in two stages. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to take part in stakeholder panels on Thursday 3 December with the interview panel being held in the morning of Friday 4 December 2026.

Person specification

Education

• Maters
• Facilities Management Qualification

Experience

• Significant experience of managing hospital support service/ Facilities Management of which a substantial proportion should be at a Senior Management strategic level in a complex environment
• Proven leadership skills and track record of directing a broad range of activities
• Provision of expert advice for board and sub-board colleagues.
• Experience of managing complex employee relations issues.
• Experience of implementing change management through consultation and negotiation with staff organisations and senior managers outside of the Facilities discipline, clinicians and other stakeholders.
• Management of substantial capital and revenue budgets across a range of services.
• Identifying and delivering cost improvement programmes
• Experience of letting and managing commercial contracts
• Experience of having responsibility for management of hospital laundries and/or food production units

Skills

• Ability to produce, present and analyse complex reports
• Excellent leadership skills
• Ability to influence both internally and externally at the highest level.
• Proven ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels in Facilities Management.
• Ability to prioritise work to meet changing deadlines.
• Ability to demonstrate behaviour in line with the Trust PROUD values and the NHS England Code of Conduct for NHS Managers.
• Understanding of risk management and its application within a Facilities setting.
• Evidence of successful project management.
• Experience at a Senior level within a large organisation outside of Facilities Management
• Skilled in Quality Improvement techniques

Other

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Personal and professional demeanour and credibility that generates trust and confidence in others.
• Highly motivated and not easily discouraged.

Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .

The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.

All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.

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