Estates Delivery Lead

A great opportunity to gain experience within the Estates Delivery team at an exciting time for the NHS estate.

The aim of the role of the Estate Delivery Lead (EDL) is to deliver high quality strategic and operational estates and facilities advice and support across the NHS organisations throughout their NHS region. Facilitating NHS Trusts, Primary Care Networks and ICSs to create better healthcare environments and generate cost efficiencies that will benefit clinicians, patients and the wider health economy.

You will be operating in a regional role as part of the Estates Delivery Team, covering the Midlands NHS region in England, although there will also be a need to support and participate in national programmes and initiatives. It is a challenging and diverse role working across the healthcare, social care and wider public-sector system as part of an independent strategic estates advisory, operational support and capital delivery function. It offers you a great opportunity to experience the breadth of work within the Estates team.

Main duties of the job

This is a results focused role, requiring a full understanding of national health policy objectives to ensure that consequential benefits in efficiency, a safe hospital environment, management and mitigation of backlog maintenance and Critical Infrastructure Risk, surplus land release, capital receipts, green plans, estates and facilities workforce strategies and new housing targets are achieved.

You will be working with a small team of EDL's supporting collective goals. The Estates function provides impartial advice across the wider NHS system, regardless of property ownership, advising a full range of stakeholders including Commissioners and Providers in relation to a broad range operational issues, of estate and facilities optimisation, rationalisation, acquisition, disposal, and lease restructuring opportunities.

The aim is to ensure the provision of a clean, safe and suitable estate and patient environment within the healthcare system. In relation to Estate matters, key responsibilities are to design the system strategy, set policy, ensure system wide delivery and accountability to parliament. We support NHS to deliver efficient and effective Estates and Facilities Management and strategic functions and services. It is a significant area of accountability with several institutional relationships, with some rooted in statutory and other requirements of the new system.

There will be some travel across the Region to Provider and Commissioner premises as necessary.

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.

If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.

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

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