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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

About
Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Senior Facilities Manager
Closed for applications on: 10-Oct-2022 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-Oct-2022 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guys
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE19RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday - Friday
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £49,036 - £55,049 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Facilities
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Manager within the Facilities Department at Guys. The successful candidate will play an integral part in the delivery of all facilities services including Housekeeping and Patient Food Services along with the general physical environment of the hospital site.
The post holder will act as an account manager and point of liaison/escalation for all Essentia services to the clients and will have responsibility for:
- Operational processes ie strategic planning, escalating issues, monitoring of compliance
- Workforce, monitoring and influencing workforce allocations, procedures and systems meeting statutory requirements, management of operational teams, leadership through change, training and development
- Health & Safety ensuring good standards are adhered to throughout the building, responding to emergency issues, responsible for supporting fire evacuation process, carry out audits of services and their effectiveness.
- Financial Management to take an active role in managing costs, business planning and business plans.
- Communiction to understand and support specific IT requirements, lead in implementation of policies relating to facilities, communicate with wide range of providers.
The successful candidate will have management experience as well as demonstrable leadership skills in supporting a team in a fast paced customer facing environment.
For further information, please contact [email protected]
Advert
Responsibility for the following criteria in the day to day Facilities management of Guy's site :
Operations
Workforce
Health & Safety
Financial Management
Communication
Authority
Working for our organisation
Managing a large workforce of support services provided to the hospital, direct responsibility of management team in facilities services at Guy's site.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder takes specific responsibility for ensuring all facilities services namely Housekeeping and Patient Food Services and the general physical environment in specific hospital site buildings are serviced and maintained; in a timely, efficient and cost effective way.
The post holder acts as an account manager and point of liaison/escalation for all Essentia services to the clients using the Guy’s Hospital buildings and manages client relationships on a day-to-day basis. They liaise between operational line managers and other Essentia services, working closely with the Essentia Helpdesk as the first point of contact regarding operational issues.
The post holder reviews and reports on the day-to-day performance standards of facilities contract providers working in the building. A key element of the role is focusing upon a continuous improvement of productivity, efficiency and service to the clients.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Leadership experience
Desirable criteria
- Management of facilities management operational services within an NHS or healthcare environment
Education
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through a degree or equivalent, plus specialist knowledge acquired through a post-graduate course and experience to masters equivalent level.
- Evidence of sustained personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- IOSH safety Certificate
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude.
- A strong sense of personal and team accountability for services
- Health & safety knowledge.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Problem solving – ability to analyse problems and to develop practical and workable solutions
- A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in tracking and reporting of service standards
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Best
- Job title
- Deputy General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071882993
No longer accepting applications
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