For an informal conversation regarding the role, please contact Nicola Jones (Executive Support Officer) via who will be able to facilitate discussions with those highlighted below.
Brent Kilmurray, Chief Executive
Chris Evans, Deputy Chief Executive
Helen Collins, Director of Operations, Infrastructure
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced and strategically focused Director of Estates and Facilities to join our Trust at a pivotal time of transformation. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will be professionally accountable for all estates and facilities related activity across the Trust, ensuring our built environment is safe, sustainable and fit for purpose for our patients and our staff.
You will be responsible for shaping and delivering the Trust's Estates Strategy ensuring alignment with our clinical strategy, adopting a Corporate Landlord model to maximise estate utilisation whilst ensuring that patient and staff experience is the best it can be.
You will act as the Trust's subject matter expert on estates and facilities, advising the Board and working closely with clinical, corporate and external partners across the system.
As a member of the Trust's senior leadership team, you will play a full part in corporate leadership, contributing to organisational performance, quality, financial sustainability and the delivery of long-term strategic objectives.
The salary agreed for this position will be dependent on your experience and in line with the Very Senior Managers (VSM) Pay Framework.
Main duties
Advise the Board on all estates and facilities matters, acting as the Trust's Subject Matter Expert
Develop and deliver the Estates Strategy, Delivery Plan and Capital Strategy for Board approval
Responsible for constructing, commissioning, servicing and maintaining safe and secure patient and staff environments
Act as the Trust's Corporate Landlord, ensuring that the estate is managed efficiently and effectively providing the maximum possible value
Oversee the management of the Trust's PFI contracts
Provide visible, values-driven leadership, empowering teams and working in strong partnership with clinical leaders
Essential Person Specification Requirements
You will be an experienced estates and facilities professional with a proven track record of strategic and operational leadership within an environment of comparable scale and complexity.
With significant experience of working in the public sector, you will have extensive knowledge of the NHS with a thorough understanding of the estates and facilities functions and relevant statutory requirements. As an experienced project manager, you will be able to lead a complex multi-faceted transformation programme aimed at improving performance in a financially constrained environment.
You will have the ability to lead and motivate a large diverse workforce to deliver the highest standard of service with a strong emphasis placed upon adherence to the Trust values and behaviours.
Candidate information pack
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Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients' homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
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Our Benefits
Access to the NHS pension plan
Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
Extensive benefits and support, including:
Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
Home electronics scheme
Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
Career progression, training and support
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