Head of Estate Operations

The Head of Estates Operations leads the effective operation and maintenance of the Trust’s estate across all Trust sites (circa 100 locations), ensuring buildings and engineering systems are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. The role has responsibility for managing significant estates budgets, including capital, maintenance, utilities, rent and rates, and for overseeing maintenance and capital contracts supporting the whole estate.

Working closely with the Estates Leadership Team, the post holder provides expert professional leadership and advice on estates, engineering and building matters, ensuring full compliance with statutory requirements, Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) and relevant codes of practice. The role has overall responsibility for statutory compliance, operational estates maintenance, electrical and mechanical services, building fabric, capital maintenance programmes and minor improvement works, delivered through a mix of directly employed staff, contractors and project‑based teams.

Right to Work in the UK: This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

To lead and manage all aspects of Estates Operations, planning and maintenance activities for the Trust in accordance with Trust policies, procedures, statutory requirements and allocated budgets, ensuring buildings and engineering systems are safe and available for intended use.

Provide leadership and expert professional advice on engineering and building activities, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation, Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) and codes of practice.

Manage delegated estates budgets including capital, revenue, utilities, rent and rates.

Manage estates maintenance contracts and capital schemes, ensuring NHS-compliant procurement and performance management.

Ensure statutory compliance across all Trust sites including electrical, mechanical, water, asbestos, gas and pressure systems.

Lead business continuity planning to maintain safe, compliant estate operations at all times.

“Because of the seniority of this post the postholder may be required to participate in on-call arrangements, after suitable training"

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Martyn Ward Job title: Chief Transformation, Estates & Digital Officer Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07584 090521