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Job summary

Main area
Commercial & Estates
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
990-COM-6867365-E
Employer
NHS England
Employer type
NHS
Site
National
Town
National
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum (exclusive of London weighting)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/01/2025 23:59

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Senior Sustainability Programme Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.

As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition,Ìýalthough the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

Transforming our estate for the future

There’s never been a more exciting time to join the NHS as we transform our estate to deliver 21st century care and the best possible outcomes for our patients.

Estates are at the centre of the government’s plans for transforming the NHS. The NHS Long Term Plan outlines the need to ‘accelerate the redesign of patient care to future-proof the NHS for the decade ahead.’ We have laid the groundwork for fundamental change to enable us to deliver on this commitment across our estate and we now need you to help us reap the rewards of this work.

We have big ambitions, such as becoming the world’s first net zero health system by 2040, setting global standards for healthcare providers, building 40 new state-of-the-art hospitals, and channelling investment to accelerate community-based care for patients.

This is a pivotal time in the history of the NHS and a once in a lifetime career opportunity to be part of transforming the largest estate in the country. Join us as we embark on this seismic shift to future proof our estate.

The NHS Estate

Our hospital estate spans 25 million m² with 1.4 million NHS staff working across 17,000 buildings, including 1,140 hospitals and 7,500 primary care sites, our c100k staff are responsible for maintaining and running all EFM services.

With £5 billion of operational capital funding and annual expenditure of £10 billion across estates and facilities management, there’s scope to make real change across our estate.

Main duties of the job

The National Estates Sustainability team supports the NHS’ net zero ambition by reducing the environmental and financial impact of operating the NHS estate, addressing two key areas: building energy and waste. Our three key documents, the NHS Estates Net Zero Delivery Plan, NHS Net Zero Building Standard and NHS Clinical Waste Strategy set the system’s direction of travel to achieve this.

Reporting to the Head of Estates Sustainability, you will drive programmes to embed sustainability in NHS estates. This includes managing programmes and projects; reporting to stakeholders; and identifying progress and barriers to programme delivery, collating and analysing data to show this.

You will work across teams including the wider NHSE National Estates Team, Greener NHS, and estates and sustainability leads in ICSs, primary care, and secondary care.Ìý You will have line management responsibilityÌý including any apprentices/interns.

About you - A proven programme manager, you know the value of well administered programmes and the personal difference you can make. You will have a passion for sustainability with experience of delivering sustainability programmes within complex organisations.

You will work comfortably across teams to deliver outcomes. You will be confident using MS Office and analysing data, able to translate information into clear programme reports.Ìý You will be passionate about your own and your team’s professional development which we will support and encourage.

Working for our organisation

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visitÌýhttps://www.england.nhs.uk/.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you’ll usually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the .Ìý

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:Ìý

Support NHS organisations with action plans to deliver identified savings, in line with the NHS Estates Net Zero Delivery Plan

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Drive delivery of energy efficiency projects across the system

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Analyse data to highlight opportunities for greater efficiency across energy, waste and water

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Drive delivery of energy strategy across NHS organisations in England

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Drive delivery of the NHS Clinical Waste Strategy across NHS organisations in England

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Support the delivery of training and development for sustainability professionals across the system

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Manage the delivery of tailored sustainability support to NHS organisations

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Support the Strategic Estates Planning team on individual projects as and when required

Additional specific deliverables of the role include:

Improving quality and outcomes, through collaborative working

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Enabling patient and public involvement

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Promoting equality and reducing in equalities, creating an inclusive working environment and promoting a diverse EFM workforce

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Partnership and cross boundary working, working across government and with external partners

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Leadership for transformational change, through embedding a collaborative and influencing style of working

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Using insight and evidence for improvement, effectively using data to support evaluation of programmes

•ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Developing an excellent organisation

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to Master’s level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
  • Experience in the delivery of sustainability programmes across a multi-organisational structure

Skills & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience engaging teams with programme management processes
  • ExperienceÌý working across teams to deliver joint programmes / results
  • Experience analysing and presenting complex data to a range of audiences

Values/Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Values diversity and difference, and operates with integrity and openness
  • Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ian Stenton
Job title
Head of Estates Sustainability
Email address
[email protected]