Head of Facilities

Head of Facilities

The closing date is 11 March 2026.

We're seeking a Head of Facilities who brings energy, expertise, and a commitment to creating safe, welcoming, high quality environments for patients, visitors, and staff. If you're motivated by delivering exceptional facilities services and shaping spaces that enable outstanding care, this role will inspire and challenge you.

The Head of Facilities provides strategic leadership and operational oversight across Worcestershire Royal Hospital, Alexandra Hospital, and Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre. You will ensure all estates and facilities functions deliver safe, compliant, efficient, and patient centred environments that support high quality clinical care.

The role leads a broad portfolio including hard and soft FM, statutory compliance, maintenance, cleaning, catering, portering, waste management, security, and sustainability. You will drive continuous improvement, ensure adherence to NHS and CQC standards, and deliver excellent value for money.

Working closely with clinical and operational leaders, you will ensure the built environment enhances patient experience and supports staff wellbeing. You will also oversee contract management, budget planning, emergency preparedness, and the delivery of capital and lifecycle projects across a complex, multisite acute healthcare setting.

As Head of Facilities, you will provide visible leadership across all Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust sites, ensuring our environments are safe, efficient, and consistently focused on delivering an excellent patient and staff experience. You will oversee a wide range of services including cleaning, catering, portering, security, waste management, and car parking, ensuring they operate to the highest standards and meet all NHS, CQC, and statutory requirements.

You will work closely with clinical and operational colleagues to make sure our facilities support high quality care and a positive workplace culture. You will take responsibility for managing budgets and contracts, driving value for money, and leading improvements that enhance service quality, sustainability, and resilience.

The role also plays a key part in supporting capital projects and refurbishment programmes, contributing to emergency planning and business continuity, and representing the Facilities function at Trust-wide meetings and external inspections.

Strong leadership, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast paced NHS environment are essential.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend a focus group, followed by a panel interview.

Focus Group: 20th March

Interview Date: 23rd March

Please ensure you are available on these dates.

If you would like an informal discussion with the Director of Estates and Facilities please contact Elsa Acock.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information…