Strategic Estates Programme Lead

DiabloRosso; Derby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in the United Kingdom seeks a Strategic Estates Programme Lead to enhance estate utilisation and improve planning for NHS transformations. This role involves leading collaborative partnerships across NHS organisations, ensuring effective data use, and supporting care delivery closer to home. The position offers flexible working, generous leave, and commitments to training and employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Flexible working

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Generous NHS pension scheme

Health service discounts

Incremental pay progression

Free 24/7 employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• High motivation and experience in strategic estates management.
• Ability to lead collaborative partnerships with NHS organisations.
• Strong analytical skills for data quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the Estates Work Programme across Derbyshire.
• Maximise use of existing estate assets for efficiency.
• Improve data quality to inform strategic decisions.
• Support care closer to home through estate planning.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Strategic Estates Programme Lead to support the delivery of the Derbyshire NHS Infrastructure Strategy. This role will be pivotal in driving estates transformation across the Derbyshire system, ensuring our estate is fit for the future and aligned with strategic priorities. The postholder will be employed by Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust but will work collaboratively across all system partners, including the Joined Up Care Derbyshire Provider Collaborative, with a high level of autonomy and influence.

The programme aims to deliver key strategic priorities across Derbyshire, including estate utilisation of existing assets, estate rationalisation for consolidation and cost-efficiency, improving data quality to inform prioritisation, and supporting care closer to home through estate planning. The role involves collaboration with NHS organisations and wider public sector partners to foster partnership and shared ambition, with robust reporting and benefit realisation mechanisms in place, and clinically-led medium-term estate planning and service transformation. The programme represents the Trust at system groups including the Strategic Estates Group and Local Estates workstreams.

Join \"Team Derbyshire Healthcare\" and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to making a positive difference in people\'s lives. CQC rated us as \"GOOD overall\", commenting on how our colleagues treated patients with compassion and kindness and felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the Estates Work Programme across Derbyshire, supporting key strategic priorities.
• Estate utilisation maximising use of existing estate assets.
• Estate rationalisation identifying opportunities for consolidation and cost-efficiency.
• Improving data quality to help inform strategic decisions around priorities.
• Supporting the left shift enabling care closer to home through estate planning.
• Collaborate with NHS organisations and wider public sector partners to foster a culture of partnership and shared ambition.
• Ensure robust reporting and benefit realisation mechanisms are in place.
• Support clinically-led medium-term estate planning and service transformation.
• Represent the programme at system groups including the Strategic Estates Group and Local Estates workstreams.
• Join \"Team Derbyshire Healthcare\" and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of making a positive difference in people\'s lives.

Benefits

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible.
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years service.
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits.
• Health service discounts and online benefits.
• Incremental pay progression.
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7.
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network.
• Health and wellbeing opportunities.
• Structured learning and development opportunities.

Please see the attached job description and explanation of duties for the role, together with the person specification. LNKD1_UKTJ