Head of Estates and Property

Active Care Group Recruitment; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Head of Estates to oversee the development and maintenance of facilities. This hybrid role requires experience in estates management and compliance, along with strong communication and organizational skills. The successful candidate will manage contractors, ensure safety standards, and deliver projects within budget. Benefits include 25 days off plus bank holidays, birthday off, and training opportunities. This position also emphasizes support for individuals with disabilities.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Employee Assistance Programme Helpline

Nest Personal Pension account

Medicash Health Plan

Active Awards programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience leading a property function.
• Knowledge of current property legislations.
• Experience in estates and facilities management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the estates and facilities team.
• Oversee compliance and work standards of contractors.
• Coordinate tender processes and administer contracts.

Skills

Property expertise

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Education

Degree in building surveying or related field

Health & Safety qualifications - IOSH

Job description

Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

This is an exciting opportunity for an estates and facilities professional, with a proven track record in delivering capital development programmes, to lead the ongoing development of an expanding healthcare portfolio and continue to deliver a high quality and inspiring environment for our service users and colleagues.

This will be a hybrid role allowing the right candidate to work remotely from home or from our head office in London Waterloo, with a requirement to travel to sites frequently. The Head of Estates will be responsible for setting and delivering the long-term strategic plan, including but not limited to, the delivery of planned improvement programmes for preventative and cyclical maintenance, making sure they are delivered safely, on time and on budget.

The Role

Reporting to the Group Procurement and Property Director, the head of estates will be responsible for ensuring that all buildings, infrastructure, hard and soft facilities, capital equipment, vehicles and all supporting contracts are managed and maintained to ensure that all offices and residential service environments operate in a secure, safe and efficient manner.

The role will also involve managing the regional property supervisors, roaming maintenance teams and overseeing the reactive property maintenance function. The successful candidate will be expected to scrutinise works underway across the estate whilst providing the necessary guidance to sites, reconcile and settle accounts and valuations, make sure all projects (redevelopment, refurbishment, maintenance and sustainability) meet the relevant regulations according to the specific service(s), as well as supporting the implementation, delivery, and supervision of maintenance contracts.

With outstanding technical knowledge, including a degree level qualification in building surveying or a related technical subject, you will manage all contractors to ensure the delivery of outstanding work whilst keeping our service users and colleagues safe. The successful candidate will be a positive and natural collaborator, have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and be able to provide leadership and guidance to the group.

What you’ll be doing:

• Offering property expertise to the leadership team, ensuring they are regularly briefed on significant developments or risks, whilst producing business cases to support existing building development plans and new service development opportunities
• Participating in the business planning process, taking the lead in crafting pertinent business and strategic plans for the property function
• Overseeing the compliance and work standards of contractors and suppliers through regular monitoring and supervising the creation of risk assessments, method statements and pre-contract information
• Coordinating tender processes and administering contracts alongside procurement colleagues
• Collaborating with consultants to prepare and submit planning and building regulation applications, designs, and engineering solutions as required
• Leveraging expertise to address environmental concerns from a building and land management perspective
• Be responsible for managing the health, safety and environmental compliance across the group
• Manage the estates effectively in line with the business model, ensuring the maintenance of a well invested portfolio, with responsibility for the cost‑effective management of all existing and future regional office leases
• Manage and deliver projects within budget whilst providing advice on the formulation of the group’s annual budgets and capital investment programme

About you:

• Previous experience leading a property function
• Strong knowledge of current property legalisations and different types of construction
• Excellent communication and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with the wider organisation
• Experience working in a fast‑paced environment
• Previous estates and facilities management experience with proven knowledge of building legislation and regulations
• Health & Safety qualifications - minimum IOSH health and safety in the workplace
• Good organisational, business risk and financial awareness
• Attention to detail
• Takes responsibility

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
• …and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group