Senior Facilities Manager - Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom - Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

    Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
    Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro, Cornwall, United Kingdom

    Found in: Jooble UK O C2 - 2 weeks ago

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    The Senior Facilities Manager is a pivotal member of the Facilities senior leadership team, providing senior leadership, direction and responsibility for strategic development to the directly provided and contracted Facilities Services within the Trust, ensuring that quality and financial objectives are met.

    The post is accountable to the Head of Facilities in the full range of managerial duties relating to the management and operational delivery of a Soft FM Facilities service within areas of responsibility. The Senior Facilities Manager provides professional advice and support on Facilities services to the Trust Executive, other Senior Managers, Clinical colleagues and external stakeholders. The role includes the interpretation and application of policies, legislative changes, guidance and best practice the delivery of key performance targets, service developments and strategy and proactive resource management within available resources to specified targets and standards in line with the Department's strategy and national targets.

    Main duties of the job Provide strategic and operational leadership for the facilities functional delivery areas.

    Be accountable for the operational management of the Facilities services within area of responsibility, to include the fullest range of Facilities soft service delivery to include the services, provided to the Trust by directly employed and external contractors.

    Manage the reporting requirements for the functional delivery areas to all internal and external organisations and parties, ensuring a consistency and accuracy of approach and content and planned and timely delivery.

    Ensure risks across area of responsibility are actively managed and resolved or mitigated and that mitigations are in place.

    Ensure the scope of services meet the changing requirements of customers and stakeholders and implement systems to undertake constant service improvement.

    Manage a complex and multi stream facilities budget of c3.5M, whilst ensuring decisions surrounding the establishment of services are kept within agreed budgets through adherence to the Trust's establishment control system, financial parameters and active budget management.

    Responsible for leading, motivating and developing Facilities staff (approximately 110wte including supervisory staff) to maintain a high level of staff morale and promote achievement of high standards and openness. About us The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with

    visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately 580 million.

    We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

    The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

    Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation. Job description Job responsibilities PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.

    To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
    • Identity Checks
    • Professional registration and qualification checks
    • Employment history and reference checks
    • Work health assessments
    • Criminal record check standards
    • Right to work checks
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    Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

    We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity. Person Specification Holds a Waste Manager qualification Essential
    • Professional qualification
    Desirable
    • Educated to masters-level or equivalent experience of Facilities Management
    • Can evidence recent and on-going personal/professional development.
    • Holds a Waste Manager qualification
    Qualifications & Knowledge Essential
    • Educated to masters-level or equivalent experience of Facilities Management
    Qualifications & Knowledge Essential
    • Can evidence recent and on-going personal/professional development.
    Experience Essential
    • Significant experience of managing substantive Soft FM Facilities services
    Employer details Employer name Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust Address Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust - working across all sites

    Penventinnie Lane

    Truro

    TR1 3LJ Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply #J-18808-Ljbffr