Estates Manager | Barts Health NHS Trust

A permanent vacancy has arisen within the Estates & Facilities Directorate for an experienced and motivated Estates Manager to join Barts Health NHS Trust. This role is ideal for candidates with a strong Estates Management background who are looking to advance their careers within a highly specialised and supportive hospital environment.

As a key member of the St Bartholomew’s Hospital Estates team, you will lead the strategic and operational management of the building fabric to maintain a safe, compliant, and high-quality environment. While your focus will be the iconic St Bartholomew’s site, balancing modern clinical needs with Grade I listed heritage, you will be part of a larger mission to deliver excellence across one of the UK’s leading healthcare providers.

For an informal discussion please contact: Gareth Boddy [gareth.boddy@nhs.net]

In this vital role, you will oversee the structural integrity and compliance of the hospital’s infrastructure, ensuring the building fabric supports the world-class care provided at the Barts Heart Centre and throughout the site.

Your responsibilities will include

• Managing multidisciplinary estates team and specialist contractors to ensure high standards of fabric maintenance, from heritage sash windows to modern roofing systems.
• Ensuring statutory compliance across critical areas, including Fire Door safety (HTM 05-02) and Asbestos Management, acting as an Authorised Person for the Hospital.
• Managing complex fabric projects, including "Regent Street Disease" remediation, drainage overhauls, and security enhancements, while maintaining the hospital’s risk register.
• Coordinating reactive and planned maintenance via CAFM systems to minimise disruption to clinical services and preserve our historic estate.
• Fostering a culture of excellence, providing the training, technical guidance, and business case support your team needs to succeed.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jun 2026