A great opportunity to gain experience within the Estates Delivery team at an exciting time for the NHS estate.
The aim of the role of the Estate Delivery Lead (EDL) is to deliver high quality strategic and operational estates and facilities advice and support across NHS organisations throughout their NHS region. It involves facilitating NHS Trusts, Primary Care Networks and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) to create better healthcare environments and generate cost efficiencies that will benefit clinicians, patients and the wider health economy.
You will operate in a regional role as part of the Estates Delivery Team, covering the Midlands NHS region in England, while also supporting and participating in national programmes and initiatives. It is a challenging and diverse role working across healthcare, social care and wider public‑sector systems as part of an independent strategic estates advisory, operational support and capital delivery function. It offers you a great opportunity to experience the breadth of work within the Estates team.
This results‑focused role requires a full understanding of national health policy objectives to ensure that benefits in efficiency, a safe hospital environment, management and mitigation of backlog maintenance and Critical Infrastructure Risk, surplus land release, capital receipts, green plans, estates and facilities workforce strategies and new housing targets are achieved.
You will be working with a small team of EDLs supporting collective goals. The Estates function provides impartial advice across the wider NHS system, regardless of property ownership, advising a full range of stakeholders including Commissioners and Providers on a broad range of operational issues related to estate and facilities optimisation, rationalisation, acquisition, disposal and lease restructuring opportunities.
The aim is to ensure a clean, safe and suitable estate and patient environment. Key responsibilities include designing the system strategy, setting policy, ensuring system‑wide delivery and accountability to parliament, supporting NHS to deliver efficient and effective Estates and Facilities Management, and managing strategic functions and services.
Some travel across the Region to Provider and Commissioner premises will be required.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers, focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high‑quality care and to undertake functions best carried out across the entire NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education and commercial specialisms, enabling us to design and deliver high‑quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
The successful candidate will support Regional EDL colleagues by partnering with senior stakeholders in NHS regions, Trusts and ICSs to support delivery of the NHS England Long Term Plan and major capital programmes. They will develop estates strategies and programmes that empower the transformation of care and are clearly linked to other infrastructure enablers. Critical skills in stakeholder management, thorough knowledge of the NHS and estates and facilities operational issues, oversight of capital project delivery, commercial awareness and programme and project management are required. A particular skill set we are looking for is to provide support on the Estate Safety programme.
Please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ for further information. NHS England operates a hybrid working policy; the postholder will be expected to be partly office‑based in an NHS England Office and have the opportunity to work from home for part of their working week.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only; agreement must be obtained from their employer before submitting the application.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.