Strategic Lead – Estates Operations

NHS | Band 8b (Subject to AfC Evaluation)

Location:

Shrewsbury & Telford, Shropshire (Multi-Site)

Salary: NHS Agenda for Change Band 8b

Hours:

37.5 hours per week

Finegreen is working in partnership with an NHS Trust in Shropshire to recruit an experienced Strategic Lead
- Estates Operations to provide senior operational leadership across a complex, multi-site healthcare estate.

This is an excellent opportunity for an established Estates professional to take responsibility for the delivery of safe, compliant and efficient operational estates services, leading multidisciplinary teams and ensuring critical buildings, engineering systems and infrastructure are maintained to the highest standards.

Reporting to the Head of Estates, the successful candidate will play a key role in driving operational performance, statutory compliance, service improvement and workforce development, ensuring estates services effectively support frontline clinical delivery.

• Provide senior operational leadership across multiple hospital sites, overseeing planned and reactive maintenance services.
• Lead and develop multidisciplinary Estates teams, including operational managers, supervisors, technical specialists and contractors.
• Ensure statutory compliance with NHS Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs), Health Building Notes (HBNs), Approved Codes of Practice (ACoPs) and relevant HSE legislation.
• Act as an Authorised Person / Responsible Person for relevant technical disciplines.
• Oversee operational risk management, safe systems of work, contractor management and asbestos compliance.
• Develop and implement operational maintenance programmes, service improvement initiatives and performance standards.
• Manage delegated budgets, contracts and resources, ensuring effective financial control and value for money.
• Provide technical leadership and operational assurance to senior Estates management.
• Oversee engineering infrastructure, plant performance, business continuity and emergency response arrangements.
• Utilise CAFM systems to monitor maintenance performance, compliance and service delivery.
• Support sustainability, energy efficiency and operational modernisation initiatives.
• Participate in the Estates senior management on-call rota.

We are seeking an experienced Estates leader with a strong technical background and a proven track record of managing operational services within complex, highly regulated environments.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Significant senior management experience within Estates Operations, ideally gained within the NHS, healthcare or a similarly complex environment.
• A degree-level qualification in Engineering, Building Services, Estates Management or a related discipline, or equivalent senior operational experience.
• Authorised Person / Responsible Person training in at least one technical discipline, such as Water Safety, Electrical Safety, Medical Gases or Ventilation.
• Strong knowledge of NHS Estates compliance requirements, including HTMs, HBNs, ACoPs and statutory legislation.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary technical and operational teams.
• Experience managing maintenance contracts, delegated budgets, operational performance and service improvement.
• A strong understanding of risk management, health and safety, business continuity and emergency planning.
• Experience using CAFM systems and digital Estates management tools.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management and leadership skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across clinical and corporate teams.
• Professional membership of IHEEM, IET, CIBSE or an equivalent body, alongside formal leadership qualifications, would be advantageous.

This position offers the opportunity to take on a senior leadership role within a complex NHS Estates environment, with responsibility for critical infrastructure and the operational services that directly support patient care.

You will have the opportunity to influence service delivery, develop high-performing teams and contribute to improvements in operational resilience, compliance and efficiency across multiple hospital sites.