Head of Facilities

Barts Health Nhs Trust; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust in East London is seeking a Head of Facilities to oversee a range of Soft FM services. This senior role involves managing operational leadership and delivering services aligned with Trust standards. The ideal candidate will have strong facilities management experience and leadership skills, ensuring high-quality patient-focused care in a complex environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in facilities management required.
• Must be a confident and collaborative leader.
• Ability to manage complexity and build relationships across teams.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Soft FM services at the hospital.
• Lead delivery of various facilities projects.
• Manage external contractors and compliance with Trust standards.

Skills

Facilities management experience

Operational insight

Leadership skills

Relationship building

Job description

We're now seeking to recruit to four Head of Facilities (Band 8C) roles to join us at a pivotal time. This is a senior leadership role with real scope -- overseeing a wide range of Soft FM services at your base hospital while supporting delivery across the wider group.

From cleaning and catering to waste, linen, reception and security, you'll be responsible for services that are vital to safety, experience and wellbeing. You'll need strong facilities management experience, operational insight, and a passion for improvement. A confident, collaborative leader, you'll navigate complexity and build strong relationships across clinical and corporate teams.

Lead the delivery of Soft FM services and project programmes across your hospital site, including clinical service-led and mobilisation projects. Provide operational leadership to site-based service managers and teams, ensuring consistent performance management, workforce support, and delivery against Trust standards.

Manage external contractors, consultants and suppliers, ensuring delivery is aligned with Trust values, policies, and compliance frameworks. Hold delegated responsibility for operational and capital budgets, procurement activity, and invoice approvals.

Work closely with Estates & Facilities Directors, Soft FM Associate Directors and site leads to ensure services meet KPI outcomes, PAM targets, and compliance with national standards including CQC. Ensure service models support safe, patient-focused care without compromising clinical delivery.

Barts Health NHS Trust runs one of the largest estates in the NHS, supporting some of the busiest and most complex hospitals in the country. With a strong group model and senior leadership embedded at each site, we're focused on safe, effective, high-quality environments that enable outstanding care across East London.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.