Procurement jobs in United Kingdom

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As our Facilities Manager at Bristol, you’ll manage the delivery of facilities services for the hospital to achieve high standards of operational performance, cleanliness and infection prevention.

You will have proven experience in a similar role with people management responsibilities, as you will be a confident and supportive leader, able to motivate and inspire a team, in addition to this you will have excellent communication and IT skills, as you utilise your interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships. The ideal candidate with be familiar with budget management and have a NEBOSH or relevant Health & Safety qualification.

• Managing the delivery of facilities services to achieve high operational, cleanliness, and infection prevention standards.
• Leading and line-managing portering and housekeeping teams, while overseeing third-party providers for Hard FM and Catering services under group-managed contracts.
• Project managing minor refurbishment works and supporting centrally led projects.
• Overseeing local IT operations, escalating and resolving issues in collaboration with IT teams.
• Managing compliance with Health & Safety, Fire, Risk Assessments, COSHH, Water Safety, Cleanliness, Waste Management, and Car Park Management.
• Working closely with Heads of Departments, implementing group policies to ensure smooth hospital operations.
• Developing and maintaining key internal and external relationships, including the Regional Property Manager, national H&S and procurement leads, national FM contractors, local suppliers, and Fire services.
• Reporting to the Director of Operations, providing internal support to hospital departments while managing contracts to maintain a high-functioning hospital environment.

• Experience of managing outsourced contracts
• A NEBOSH qualification or similar
• Experience of managing people
• An ability to develop strong relationships with a multi disciplinary staff group
• To be able to work through personal influence
• To be diligent on prioritising and completing key tasks under your remit

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Situated in the beautiful village of Clifton, Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital - The Chesterfield, has a long and distinguished history of looking after the people of Bristol. With the latest equipment, and designed to meet the needs of all of our patients, we are constantly developing our services to ensure our patients receive the finest quality treatment. A 30 private bed hospital which houses 4 theatres and combinesleading-edge clinical facilities with an outstanding customer experience. We cater for both inpatient and day case surgery, providing a broad range of surgical specialties including: General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Vascular, Plastics and more. Working with leading consultants, Bristol hospital prevents and treats many medical conditions and offers a wide range of complex surgery and services. The working atmosphere is innovative, highly professional, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.