Estates Manager

The North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board is seeking an experienced and motivated Estates Manager to play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of high-quality primary care services across our North / South Patch.

This is a key senior role within the Estates function, providing expert leadership, guidance and assurance on all aspects of Estates. You will act as the principal point of contact for GP practices and stakeholders, ensuring that estates decisions support service sustainability, value for money and alignment with national and local NHS priorities.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Please note this post is only accepting applications from current staff members of North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and staff members of North of England Commissioning Support (NECS).

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist expertise and professional advice on Primary Care, Community and Secondary Care Estates matters, supporting GP practices and partners to navigate complex estates requirements.
• Lead and support Strategic Estates Groups, driving forward agreed work programmes and ensuring successful delivery of estates initiatives.
• Take a lead on defined ICB wide priorities such as Section 106, GP Premises Improvement Grants, and other strategic estates initiatives, as agreed through annual objectives.
• Manage and develop staff within the team, undertaking line management responsibilities and supporting continuous professional development.
• Work closely with finance colleagues to support forecasting, rental reimbursements and business case development.
• Act as a deputy for the Senior Head of Estates when required, contributing to leadership and decision making at a senior level.

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £6.6 billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community-based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Job responsibilities

You will lead the day to day management of the Primary Care Estate, supporting GP practices with:

• Rent reimbursement requests
• Business cases for extensions, refurbishments and new developments
• Improvement Grant applications

You will be the subject matter expert for Primary Care Estates, overseeing:

• Performance management of estate assets
• Space utilisation and financial analysis
• Engagement with providers to develop and approve estates plans and business cases
• Delivery and implementation of approved developments

You will also contribute to Quality and Equality Impact Assessments, ensuring estates decisions support equitable access and high quality patient care.

Qualifications

• An estates management or property degree or equivalent relevant experience

Experience

• Comprehensive knowledge and experience of performance managing large groups of staff at different levels of an organisation
• Experience of managing teams successfully
• Experience of successfully implementing change within teams and processes.
• Experience of managing and resolving complex and sensitive staff issues with the utmost discretion
• Demonstrable experience in working with GP Practices in regards to their estates requirements.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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