Head of Estates Maintenance & Compliance

Main area Corporate Grade Band 8c Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job  
-CORP

Site Queen Mary's Hospital Town Sidcup Salary £85,641 - £97,746 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 20/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 04/12/2026

This is a new leadership role to deliver the estates maintenance and compliance requirements across the Trust’s large and dispersed mental health and community health service Estate. The post holder will be the specialist lead responsible for ensuring our estates maintenance services support a safe and compliant estate. They will bring specialist skills and expertise to improve delivery of the Trust’s buildings performance and ensure the Trust operates within the defined Estates operations budget to support the achievement of Living Within Our Means cost saving targets.

The postholder will be expected to lead complex Estates operations and manage by bringing strong skills and judgement to meet objectives around the optimisation and effectiveness of the Trust Estate. They will be expected to liaise with a wide variety of Trust staff, at all levels, and external organisations and provide specialist knowledge to ensure the effective service delivery of those.

Particularly working with the Heads of Facilities, Energy Management and Capital to ensure a cohesive approach to estate management.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

This is a new leadership role to deliver the estates maintenance and compliance requirements across the Trust’s large and dispersed mental health and community health service Estate. The post holder will be the specialist lead responsible for ensuring our estates maintenance services support a safe and compliant estate. They will bring specialist skills and expertise to improve delivery of the Trust’s buildings performance and ensure the Trust operates within the defined Estates operations budget to support the achievement of Living Within Our Means cost saving targets.

The postholder will be expected to lead complex Estates operations and manage by bringing strong skills and judgement to meet objectives around the optimisation and effectiveness of the Trust Estate. They will be expected to liaise with a wide…