Building Manager

The Building Manager (BM) role is estates management role, within the Estates and Facilities Directorate at Royal Berkshire NHS Trust.

To BM is to support and assist the Head of Engineering who is the senior leadership role for all services.

The BM will be responsible for a specific demise of buildings within the Trust.

The BM is a leadership role that will make all necessary arrangements for the safe implementation all estates related activities taking place within the demise. This will include works undertaken by the Estates Maintenance Department, Estates Projects/Capital Investment Department, Charities Funded works, Wards Moves, IT installations and other external contracted services. No estates work will be undertaken within the BM’s demise without the BMs approval.

The post holder will play a pivotal role in planning estates activities, minimising disruption and risk to clinical services and ensuring business continuity. The BM will also be the primary point of contact for Estates Space Utilisation planning and decision making and represent their area of responsibility at Space Utilisation Group.

The post holder will develop an excellent working relationship with all managers within the Estates and Facilities Directorate teams as well as all clinical and non-clinical team

leads. They will assist in the setting up of regular governance meetings with Care Group leads, to receive feedback and issue updates on compliance and reactive work. The purpose is to implement continuous quality improvement plans (CQI’s) to improve estates services, strategies and compliance.

The BM will provide the Single Point of Contact interface between the Estates and Facilities Directorate and all clinical and non-clinical teams within their demise.

We are one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country - serving a population of more than 500,000 people - and the main provider of acute and specialist care services for West Berkshire.

We are also the region's specialist centre for cancer, eye and renal (kidney) care serving over one million people across Berkshire and south Oxfordshire. Our main site is the Royal Berkshire hospital in Reading.

We also provide services at West Berkshire Community hospital near Newbury, the Prince Charles eye unit in Windsor and at our renal unit based between Slough and Windsor. The Trust also provides outpatient services at Townlands hospital in Henley. The Trust also has a cancer and renal centre at the Royal Berkshire Bracknell clinic in Bracknell.

The trust’s aim is to deliver high quality care by putting patient care first. The estates team support this by providing an excellent estates maintenance and service operation.

The successful applicant will support the Head of Engineering in delivering the following:

• Operate at a leadership level within a busy, demanding public service environment.
• Ensure the comprehensive provision of safe and effective Estates services to statutory and legal requirements, technical and safety standards, and NHS guidance, across the whole Trust as appropriate.
• Provide leadership and strategic development of services.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to varied stakeholders in varying numbers (individuals to large groups)
• Facilitate overcoming barriers to understanding and be able to present complex, sensitive or contentious information to challenging audiences i.e. communicate in large groups or within a hostile or antagonistic atmosphere.
• Ensure that there are systems in place to avoid unnecessary and unplanned downtime.
• Develop, document, communicate and manage Service Level Agreements (SLA’s).
• Support the wider team with advice and guidance, to ensure continuity of clinical services, minimising downtime.
• Ensure all Estates and Facilities Directorate team members provide and deliver the agreed services utilising their contractors when required.
• Oversee the safe implementation of sub-contracts and their services.
• Co-ordinate all works within the demise.
• Participate within the Space Utilisation Group (SUG) with respect to all changes required by both clinical and non-clinical team leads ensuring that the SUG request form is completed correctly.
• Working in conjunction with the Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response Department (EPRR), assist in the implementation of all arrangements for monthly generator tests and the annual Black Building generator test.
• Participate in scheduled, planned and unplanned electrical outages as Silver command/control for generator switching (operational lead, not technical).
• Meet with a range of Trust stakeholders such as non-specialist senior managers, clinicians, charities, landlords & capital project managers to agree interruptions to service(s).
• Advise the Trust senior management on the compliance implications of any Department of Health initiatives or changes in legislation.
• Conduct, arrange and or manage periodic audits of estate’s work to ensure compliance (both contractual and statutory) and that work is completed to a high quality across all Trust sites. Ensuring there are systems in place for customers to notify of new issues and any quality failings.
• Participate and support the Head of Estates in assessing and completing strategic and operational risk management in the maintenance of the estate’s assets. This will involve analysis of multiple areas of activity in relation to performance targets, and strategic objectives. You will then develop long-term strategies or business plans and provide advice in areas where expert opinion differs.
• Lead in incident investigation where it will be necessary to discern the most likely facts from complex situations, and quickly compare and choose the correct actions from a range of options.

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