Strategic Estates Primary Care Lead - Preston, United Kingdom - NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board

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Preston, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Lancashire and Cumbria Integrated Care Board is looking to appoint a highly experienced professional Strategic Estates Lead to join the well-established Strategic Estates Team across the geographical area covered.

The postholder will work collaboratively and autonomously across Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS and wider partners providing strategic estates expertise and senior leadership across Primary Care.

Work across the ICB place footprints providing professional leadership, technical support, and guidance in relation to the Estates and Infrastructure strategy, and the Primary Care estates function covering PLACE.

Work closely with local stakeholders to ensure the strategic development of estates plans and ensure the maximise utilisation of available resources to deliver the services for populations of each PLACE.

Be the specialist estates lead in respect to Primary Care supporting the PLACE agenda.

Provide estates expertise, senior leadership overview, and work collaboratively across the ICB and local system partners to support the estates and infrastructure agenda as part of a wider system working.

Provides expert, specialist and professional advice on building and/or engineering advice to other estates staff, directors, senior management of the organisation.

Work alongside Strategic Estates colleagues to provide a strategic and informed-client function supporting the development and transformation of the primary care estate across L&SC

Exercise own judgement across wide range of estates issues taking into account legislation, H&S, conflicting demands, professional and technical expert advice on estates/contractual matters, formulation of strategic estates development options, dealing with contractors and GP disputes.

Will lead negotiations with key stakeholders in respect to estates projects which can include responsibility for selecting suppliers ensuring cost, quality and time as well as delivery in line with the procurement framework and Procure 23

Provide leadership and guidance to support the finance and primary care team and the senior teams in PLACE where required

The Strategic Estates Team (SET) is a small (6 staff) and specialist team that is leading the L&SC system developing its capability and supporting key system-wide programmes.

Staff have come together from former CCGS, NHSE and former ICS staff.

Staff worked very differently in former organisations and over the past year have developed a great bond, huge amounts or respect and pulled together from the offset of the ICB.

Due to the diversity of work the team need to be blue sky - out of the box thinkers, ensuring they take a creative approach in the work they do.

Each member brings to the team unique skills in problem solving and specialist advice/support and does the utmost to ensure the job gets done always putting the patient and the long-term needs of the NHS first.

The team works across primary care, community and the acutes delivering highly successful, multifaceted projects and capital schemes and large transformational programmes.

Be the specialist estates lead in respect to Primary Care supporting the PLACE agenda.

Provides expert, specialist and professional advice on building and/or engineering advice to other estates staff, directors, senior management of the organisation.

Provide detailed and technical estates guidance in respect to estates and capital planning.

Work with the primary care lead in each place to develop and implement the Infrastructure Strategy.

Ensuring that this strategy is updated and refreshed to reflect local, system and national requirements and that it aligns with each PLACE Strategic and Financial Plans.

Support the development of PCN estates plans and strategies so that these support and are supported by the Infrastructure strategy and the six facet surveys of each PLACE.

Encourage, support, and participate in Local Estate Forums and Integrated Care Systems to ensure efficient and effective system and engagement and alignment.

Formulate short, medium and long-term estates work plans that support the estates and infrastructure strategies of each PLACE.

In conjunction with NHSE colleagues support the development of a prioritisation model in respect to Primary Care estates development.

Maximise the funding streams available to support Estates development within each PLACE and utilisation of the estates.

Provide regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, highly complex, contentious, and confidential issue