Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities

The Carter and Naylor reports set out significant expectations for EFM services nationally. You will provide both operational and strategic leadership in delivering NUH's response, ensuring our services are efficient, resilient, and aligned with best practice.

You will also work closely with Clinical Care Groups and senior operational leaders to ensure the Estate fully supports safe and effective clinical care. This includes business continuity planning, enabling high quality patient pathways, and ensuring Estates related risks are understood, escalated, and managed appropriately.

You will lead the operational management of Estates Services across NUH, covering a wide and diverse portfolio including engineering, infrastructure, statutory compliance, risk management, resilience, and fire safety. Working closely with the Director of Estates & Facilities, you will also deputise across the full range of EFM services when required.

As a key member of the Estates & Facilities Directorate Leadership Team, you will work alongside senior colleagues responsible for Soft FM, Capital Development, and Property & Regulatory Services. Together, you will provide strategic and operational governance for a Directorate with a budget of £123m and a workforce of around 1,300 staff.

Inspirational leadership and the ability to motivate large, diverse teams.

• Deep expertise in engineering, Hard FM, statutory compliance, and fire safety
• A strong track record of delivering strategic change in complex environments
• Excellent judgement, resilience, and the ability to manage competing priorities
• A commitment to patient safety, service quality, and continuous improvement

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is seeking an exceptional Estates leader to take on a pivotal role at one of the largest and busiest acute teaching hospital trusts in the country. As Deputy Director of Estates & Facilities (Estates Services), you will provide strategic and operational leadership for Hard FM and Fire Safety services, ensuring our Estate enables safe, high quality care for the millions of patients we serve.

This is a role with real strategic influence. If you are driven by the challenge of leading one of the NHS's most complex Estates through a period of significant transformation, we would be delighted to hear from you. With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population.

We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.