PFI Performance Manager

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Thatcham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Thatcham is seeking a Hospital Manager to oversee PFI contract management and ensure compliance with NHS standards. The role involves significant stakeholder engagement and project management, with flexible working options available. Ideal candidates will have considerable experience in PFI contracting, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to providing excellent patient care.

Benefits

Flexible working options

27 days' annual leave

Excellent learning and career development

'Cycle to Work' scheme

Access to wellbeing tools and services

Discounts at popular retailers

Generous leave policies

Free parking

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years NHS experience at middle management level.
• Continuous personal and professional development evidence.
• Experience of budget setting and financial management.

Responsibilities

• Manage the PFI contract for the Trust ensuring service quality.
• Initiate contract expiry project before 2032.
• Ensure compliance with NHS guidance for patient safety.

Skills

Technical experience of PFI contracting procedures

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Ability to communicate with stakeholders

Influencing and negotiation skills

Leadership skills

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Tools

MS Office Apps (including Excel)

Job description

Right now is an exciting time to join the Estates and Facilities team, at the CQC outstanding Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, where you can help make a difference to the care of patients within our community. You will be responsible for managing one of our two PFI (Private Finance Initiative) Hospitals. This role will principally manage the contract at West Berkshire Community Hospital, in Thatcham.

This post is responsible, for ensuring the PFI contract for the Hospital is performing in accordance with the Project Agreement. For scale, the annual budget for this site is approx £7m per year.

This post seeks to ensure value for money on all additional works and projects requested and ensure that they are delivered in accordance with all statutory and NHS guidance and with local clinical requirements. The postholder will work with a range of stakeholders, various Trust internal stakeholders and also externally the Project Company where the Trust has the direct contractual relationship, and the facilities management provider, currently Bellrock Property and FM Ltd, and their contractors.

You will ensure compliance with the requirements of Health Technical Memoranda and Health Building Notes, the Health and Safety at Work Act and associated Regulations and compliance with national standards and legislation including CQC (Care Quality Commission) and NSoHC (National Standards of Healthcare Cleaning).

Main duties of the job

Management responsibility for our PFI (Private Finance Initiative) hospital, located in Thatcham, near Newbury.

Manage the PFI Contract for the Trust ensuring the FM service provider (Bellrock) delivers FM services to the required quality and to the contract

Initiate and run the contract expiry project, this PFI expires in 2032 however the work needs to begin this year.

Ensure compliance with all legislation and NHS guidance to provide a safe environment for our patients

Oversight of general site management issues

Project management of capital schemes

Custodian of space on site, ensuring all areas achieve good utilisation

This role is:

37.5 hours per week

Based at West Berkshire Community Hospital

Possibility of home working, although largely the nature of the job is to oversee the site and therefore a site presence is often required

Hours of work may be flexible on discussion

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Job responsibilities

The must haves for this role:

• Technical experience of PFI contracting procedures and processes
• Ability to communicate and forge good working relationships with different stakeholders
• Experience of influencing and negotiation and great leadership skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Stephanie Gould on 07788 956609 or email [e-mail] wholl be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Interview will be held on 16th or 18th Dec 2025

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

• Educated to degree level or equivalent or specialist relevant experience

Continuous Professional Development

• Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
• PFI (Private Finance Initiative) Contract experience
• IT training or experience in MS Office Apps, including Excel

Previous Experience

• Experience of influencing and negotiation
• Ability to undertake analysis, interpretation and presentation of a complex range of data
• Experience of providing management information
• Ability to manage resources to deadlines and budgets
• Experience of monitoring, administration and management of contracts and contract procurement
• Experience of information monitoring, accurate data management and interpretation and reporting thereon
• Experience of budget setting, financial management, and interpretation of financial data.
• 3 years minimum NHS experience at middle management level

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Technical experience of PFI contracting procedures and processes
• Experience in and effective leadership and skills
• Negotiation and influencing experience
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to communicate and forge good working relationships at all levels
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and to strict deadlines whilst keeping a high standard of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to work on own, use initiative, prioritise and manage own workload
• Ability to solve problems
• Ability to liaise effectively with different stakeholders
• Reliable and flexible approach to work with the ability to cope with change
• Commitment to delivering an excellent patient experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.