Job Introduction
Are you looking for a career that makes a real difference? A role with Achieve together might be the perfect opportunity for a long-lasting, rewarding career in the social care sector.
We are looking for team members who are passionate about supporting people, helping our Operations teams deliver excellent care and support, and celebrating achievements.
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated National Estates Transformation Manager to join our community hub team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the organisation's core operations and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Delivery of our national estate’s transformation strategy, aligned with organisational goals, support models and regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring the estate supports modern models of care and support, including digital enablement, accessibility and person-centred design.
- Overseeing a portfolio of estates projects, from concept to completion, ensuring delivery to time, within budget and to required quality standards.
- Implementing robust project governance, risk management and reporting frameworks.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary teams including architects, contractors, surveyors and internal stakeholders.
- Ensuring all properties meet statutory, regulatory and health & safety standards, including CQC and CIW expectations.
- Monitoring and improving estate performance measures, such as utilisation, condition, lifecycle costs and energy efficiency.
- Management of communication, performance and delivery of repairs where property is owned by a third party landlord.
- Leading audits, compliance reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Driving the organisation sustainability agenda, including carbon reduction, energy efficiency and environmentally responsible design.
- Championing innovative approaches to estate optimisation, digital infrastructure, and future-ready support environments.
- Building strong relationships with Head of Area Operations, Operations Directors, clinical teams, commissioners, local authorities and external partners.
- Communicating complex estates issues in a clear and accessible way to key stakeholders.
- Overseeing the management and delivery of routine maintenance, repairs and preventative maintenance programmes.
- Identifying and solving maintenance and estates challenges, including breakdowns and equipment failures.
- Engaging people we support and their families in co-designing environments that promote dignity, independence and wellbeing.
- Developing and managing national estates budgets, capital plans and investment cases.
- Ensuring value for money through effective procurement, contract management and supplier performance oversight.
Requirements:
- Demonstrable experience of delivering large-scale estates or capital transformation programmes, within housing, health, social care or a related sector.
- Relevant professional qualification in estates, construction, surveying, engineering or project management (RICS, CIOB, APM).
- Experience in direct leadership of day to day estates and maintenance operations.
- A proven background in ownership of reactive, planned and preventative maintenance delivery programmes
- A history of accountability for operational grip, prioritisation and service resilience.
- Knowledge of rapid assessment and action through assessment of root cause, action planning and improvement delivery.
- Strong knowledge of estates compliance, building regulations and health & safety legislation.
- Expertise in project management methodologies and governance.
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams across broad stakeholder groups.
- Experience of assessing and implementing different models of delivery (including outsourcing, 3rd party contractor/ supply etc).
- Ability to design, mobilise and manage FM/maintenance contracts where required
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills.
- Experience working within a regulated sector, with knowledge of CIW/CQC desirable.
- Good understanding of sustainability frameworks (for example Net Zero).
Benefits:
At Achieve together we offer a range of exciting benefits, such as:
- Career progression and training opportunities
- Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services,
- Stream- a financial health app that gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances
- Life Assurance
For all our amazing benefits please visit here: Rewards and Benefits - Achieve together
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Passion for positively shaping lives is just as important to us as your experience. Building on your existing knowledge we will give you all the training and support that you need. You just need an appetite for learning and a real desire to make a difference to peoples’ lives. So, if you want to start, or continue your career journey in care with us, we want to hear from you!
We regularly review our job adverts to ensure they reflect current hiring needs. In some cases, adverts may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive sufficient applications or the role is filled. Conversely, some adverts may remain open beyond the original closing date until the position is successfully filled. This approach helps us attract the best talent while maintaining flexibility in our recruitment process.
To ensure fair consideration and timely progression, internal applicants should submit their applications no later than the end of the first week after the role is advertised. Applications received after this point may not be guaranteed review.
