Essentia - Director of Capital Projects

• Contribute to talent management and succession planning across Essentia.

• Participate in the performance management of Essentia at corporate level. • Take responsibility for the delivery of specific change and transformation projects on behalf of the Chief Executive, Essentia Group. Personal development • Ensure that professional knowledge is continuously updated and training undertaken if appropriate. • Participate in an annual performance review

• Ensure that team structures and individuals employed within the various services are organised to achieve maximum effectiveness in delivering Trust, Clinical Groups and Essentia objectives. • Develop and lead a team that will drive and support high performing business performance based on sound and relevant data. • Ensure that staff are effectively managed and developed within a performance appraisal framework including personal development plans, to ensure an efficient, engaged and highly motivated workforce. • Ensure compliance with all mandatory training and optimal completion of Trust/NHS staff surveys. • Actively promote good communication and employee engagement throughout the Essentia workforce, exemplifying the values and behaviours of the Trust and the Essentia Way. • Promote effective leadership to Essentia staff, encouraging ‘one team’ working and breaking down management barriers and divisions that have developed over time across Essentia. • Responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and development for all accountable staff, including objective setting, motivation and appraisal, and to be responsible for all performance issues relating to the team. • Lead the reconfiguration of working practices and strategic resource levels required to achieve on going optimum flexibility in the workforce to service anticipated and existing business. • Invest in the development of all directly accountable employees on an equitable basis and promote career progression. • Provide visible leadership to promote a fair and just culture that ensures that Essentia is responsive to the needs of diverse staff.

where expert opinion differs. • Be accountable, and hold staff accountable, for the delivery of all agreed objectives and outcomes for the Trust, Essentia and any external clients or partners. Ensuring that effective action is taken as appropriate, where performance is at risk of falling below expected standards. • Ensure that appropriate strategies, plans, delivery and implementation frameworks are in place to ensure that an excellent environment for patient care is maintained at all times, formulating and adjusting plans and strategies in anticipation of complex environmental and political changes. Financial Management • Ensure that services and projects are delivered so as to achieve value for money and meet all financial targets. • Ensure all staff comply with the Trust’s financial standing instructions and financial procedures, and work to the highest standards of probity and integrity. • Ensure capital projects are delivered within an agreed capital cost envelope. • Maximise the income achieved through

HR • Lead the development of a positive and organisational culture that promotes • GSTT Values and Behaviours, staff engagement, employee wellbeing and high • performance, and continuing professional development. • Champion EDI across GSTT, ensuring that all functions are inclusive and promote equity, belonging and intersectionality. Corporate responsibilities • Be a key member of the team setting and delivering the long-term strategic estate development agenda for the Trust. • Deputise for the Executive Director Design & Development, Essentia, as required. • Represent Essentia at Trust level senior management meetings as necessary. • Represent Essentia and the Trust at ICS, Regional and National levels as and when required. • Actively promote and champion the equality, diversity and inclusion ambitions of the Trust and Essentia. • • Contribute fully to Essentia corporate management and strategic development together with other executive colleagues as an active participant in the Essentia Group Board, Executive Team and in presenting to the Board of Directors and external partners and customers. • Participate, and on occasion lead, negotiations with external providers and enhance the Essentia brand working in conjunction with other colleagues.

process where objectives will be agreed, performance monitored and personal development needs discussed.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development • Implement policies for capital projects and contributes to policy and service development as a member of the Essentia leadership team, as appropriate. • Identify process improvements and develop

projects and assignments to respond to organisational and/or policy changes and initiatives more effectively.

Other • From time to time, to provide support to Essentia colleagues undertaking other duties as required, which are consistent with the grade and nature of the post. The role includes work on special projects as they arise. • Strict adherence to departmental health and safety regulations and requirements. • Any other duties appropriate to the role. • Requirement to work at any other site used by the Trust, partners or clients. • The successful applicant will be required to work on site 4 days per week.

property transactions while controlling expenditure to meet agreed budgets and savings targets.

• Play a lead role in business planning including identifying property related cost improvements.

Leadership • Lead the team and self by example modelling the Trust values and behaviours, ensuring that equality, diversity and inclusion objectives of the trust are championed, supported and implemented.

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