Director of Capital Development – Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services, and we proudly provide care to over half a million patients every year in our hospitals, community settings and in people’s own homes. Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do – providing safe and compassionate care, every time – and our estate is a key enabler to deliver truly transformational services. Our estate must enable us to provide integrated care with greater guarantees of infection prevention and control and financial sustainability by reducing the inefficiencies of an aged estates and tackling our backlog maintenance. Ultimately, our estate is fundamental in creating a healthy, safe, and effective environment for all who use it.

Our Director of Capital Development is a key member of the Estates and Facilities senior leadership team and will be pivotal in achieving our estate development priorities. The incumbent will successfully manage the capital portfolio inclusive of strategic estates planning, capital delivery, space and design standards. You will be responsible for growing in-house capacity for the capital development team and ensure that the estate development priorities match the Trust’s strategy and its financial capacity.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering our spaces and services. The ideal candidate will have a demonstratable track record in delivering highly complex capital projects with extensive knowledge of estates, property management and property construction. You will have an ability to develop effective relationships at an executive level and with a wide range of external stakeholders, and influence, inspire and unify those along the journey. You will be a collaborative, respectful and aspiration leader with strong emotional intelligence and high integrity.

We are committed to ensuring that BHT embraces and celebrates diversity as we strive to tackle inequalities both within the workforce and in our local communities. In recruiting to our Trust, we are committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we both encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

For further information, please contact our search partners at Hunter Healthcare via Brendan Davies, Head of Executive Search, on 07585 356985 or bdavies@hunter-healthcare.com

To apply for this role please submit a CV and covering letter to our recruitment partners at Hunter Healthcare via apply@hunter-healthcare.com

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