Estates and Facilities Manager - Kent and Medway

Job Introduction

We have an excellent opportunity for an accomplished facilities professional to join our new Kent & Medway Talking Therapies service. Reporting to the Business Manager you will be responsible for building strong working relationships with operational teams to ensure that the estates’ facilities management and health and safety compliance is achieved across all Vita Health Group venues in the region.

You should enjoy working in a busy close-knit team operating to industry best-practice standards across all facets of FM, Estates and Health & Safety. You will also be required to conduct risk assessments and take a local lead on infection prevention control in line with sector guidance and best practices. Experience of managing contactor/sub-contractor activities to achieve statutory hard FM compliance is important as is the ability to operate in close partnership with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Key activities will include:

• Ensuring business continuity and to minimise service disruption resulting from the Estates and Facilities.
• Ensuring that the Business Manager and Service Lead remain updated on projects and incidents relating to the estate.
• Ensuring that premises used by VHG colleagues are fit for purpose with attention to fire, electrical, and water management to ensure the environment remains safe and compliant.
• Managing of relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers; keeping track of sub-contractor relationships, ensuring servicing and maintenance takes place on time, to the correct specification, and within budget.
• Liaising with cleaning contractors to ensure audit outcomes are shared and that sites remain clean and suitable for service delivery.
• Managing and instructing the preventative planned maintenance schedules including reactive maintenance.
• Carrying out site inspections and auditing across the estates including health and safety, cleaning standards, infection prevention control, and office consumable checking.
• Responsibility for creating and managing local risk assessments including building H&S, COSHH, specific tasks/activities, new or expectant mother, and first aid risk assessments.
• Instructing and overseeing all commissioned risk assessments including fire risk assessments and any other surveys as appropriate.

This is a great chance to build on your experience and develop your career in a fast-paced growing organisation. There will be regular travel around Kent and Medway in the role so a full clean driving license and access to transport is required.

Why Vita Health Group?

Vita Health Group celebrates life. Improving lives physically and mentally drives everything we do.We are physical and mental health specialists with over 30 years of experience. We work in partnership with the NHS, are engaged by insurers and some of the UK’s largest corporate companies to support their workforce and provide a full range of physiotherapy services to private customers.To achieve our mission of making people better, we recognise the importance of investing in our staff. In addition to a competitive salary, we also offer the opportunity of a flexible work life balance and a comprehensive benefits package which you can view here: https://www.vitahealthgroup.co.uk/join-us/careers/To progress your skills and enable career development we provide Continued Professional Development opportunities including secondments, management training, a mentoring scheme and regular events and webinars across a range of clinical disciplines.Vita Health Group is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion best practice and positively encourage applications from candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, or pregnancy/maternity. To support this we have a dedicated team of EDI specialists and run a range of active in-house diversity networks.We are actively seeking to increase the diversity of our workforce, to ensure we are representative of the communities we serve at all levels. We therefore welcome applications from candidates with a wide range of lived experience.We are committed to equitably support the wellbeing of all employees as demonstrated by:

• Our association with the MINDFUL EMPLOYER Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health.
• Our status as a Disability Confident Employer dedicated to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process. All disabled candidates that meet the minimum essential criteria will be invited to interview.
• Our Ethnicity Matters Scheme where all applicants for senior roles (£40,000+) from a minority ethnic group that meet the essential criteria will be invited for interview.
• Our sign up to the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Our status as a Menopause Friendly Committed employer.
• Our sign up to the Employer with Heart Charter.
• Our commitment to meet the standards outlined in the NHS Equality Delivery System (EDS). Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES).
• The provision of access to health and wellbeing services for colleagues which includes a team of trained Mental Health Advocates and an Employee Assistance Programme.
• An embedded “speaking up” culture facilitated by Freedom to Speak Up Guardians.

Should you wish to discuss any adjustment or assistance you might need in the application or interview process please contact recruitment@vhg.co.uk and we will arrange.VHG is committed to supporting transgender individuals with dignity and recognises the potential complications that may arise when taking references. We encourage applicants to contact HR at hr@vhg.co.uk to discuss or amend how we manage reference requests.Please note, all applicants must be legally entitled to accept and perform work in the UK and all positions are subject to a DBS check. Any data which you share with us throughout the hiring process will be stored securely within the UK and is accessible only by staff who require it. Should your application be unsuccessful, your data will be securely destroyed after 6 months. Vita Health Group reserves the right to close this job when sufficient applications have been received.