Essentia Site Director St Thomas' inLondon inLondon PUBLISHED 19 DEC 2023

Band 9: £104,122 to £122,695 a year per annum incl. HCA  PERMANENT 
This is a role which key to achieving Essentia's strategic ambitions.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This is a role which key to achieving Essentia's strategic ambitions. It strategically directs all hard and soft facilities management (FM) services, and co-ordinates all capital projects, for the site.

The role provides strategic leadership across the site, is a key member of the Essentia executive (senior leadership team).

The role is highly autonomous, requiring interpretation of national policy and strategies, and involves the analysis, synthesis and regular communication of highly complex, sensitive and contentious information both within the Trust and with external stakeholders, where there are significant barriers to acceptance.

The post-holder is accountable to the Trust for the direct delivery of a large number of highly technical and professional services. These services are large, tightly regulated and impact directly on all clinical services.

Leads the delivery of all hard and soft FM services, including line management responsibility and budgetary control for all aspects of hard and soft FM including lifecycle and backlog investment planning, with a particular focus on high quality customer services, the proactive introduction of cost and efficiency improvements, and procuring equipment and supplies.

Holds responsibility for all soft FM services on site which include catering, housekeeping, and other non-clinical services essential to the safe operation of acute and community healthcare services.

Holds responsibility for all hard FM services which include engineering and building maintenance. The role holds prime responsibility for the 24/7 reactive service, the delivery of an annual Planned Preventive Maintenance plan with updates reflecting risks, management of backlog maintenance, management and control of contractors working on site (via Skyvisitor), and statutory compliance including permits, Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, and Safe Systems of Work.

Acts as a strategic partner to board level and executive leadership on site, as the key interface with senior stakeholders and customers in the delivery of an excellent operational service, supported by professional leads in the central team who set quality standards across the whole of Essentia.

Be accountable for the financial performance of all site operational areas against plan and actively forecast potential variations to budget.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This is a role which key to achieving Essentia's strategic ambitions. It strategically directs all hard and soft facilities management (FM) services, and co-ordinates all capital projects, for the site.

The role provides strategic leadership across the site, is a key member of the Essentia executive (senior leadership team).

The role is highly autonomous, requiring interpretation of national policy and strategies, and involves the analysis, synthesis and regular communication of highly complex, sensitive and contentious information both within the Trust and with external stakeholders, where there are significant barriers to acceptance.

The post-holder is accountable to the Trust for the direct delivery of a large number of highly technical and professional services. These services are large, tightly regulated and impact directly on all clinical services.

Leads the delivery of all hard and soft FM services, including line management responsibility and budgetary control for all aspects of hard and soft FM including lifecycle and backlog investment planning, with a particular focus on high quality customer services, the proactive introduction of cost and efficiency improvements, and procuring equipment and supplies.

Holds responsibility for all soft FM services on site which include catering, housekeeping, and other non-clinical services essential to the safe operation of acute and community healthcare services.

Holds responsibility for all hard FM services which include engineering and building maintenance. The role holds prime responsibility for the 24/7 reactive service, the delivery of an annual Planned Preventive Maintenance plan with updates reflecting risks, management of backlog maintenance, management and control of contractors working on site (via Skyvisitor), and statutory compliance including permits, Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, and Safe Systems of Work.

Acts as a strategic partner to board level and executive leadership on site, as the key interface with senior stakeholders and customers in the delivery of an excellent operational service, supported by professional leads in the central team who set quality standards across the whole of Essentia.

Be accountable for the financial performance of all site operational areas against plan and actively forecast potential variations to budget.



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