QE Facilities (QEF) is a well-established wholly owned subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, based in the North of England. The company is a separate legal body set up to provide a range of non-clinical Estates and Facilities services. Due to our success, QEF have also expanded into a number of exciting projects that are delivering significant savings and efficiencies. In this very difficult economic environment our expanding business is providing a unique option to traditional full third party outsourcing. QEF deliver a number of real and tangible financial benefits in a way that does not disadvantage the organisations existing employees. QEF has been established on the solid foundations of the NHS and is able to provide a flexible, proactive range of high quality services, delivered on the lines of a commercial organisation. The following statement applies to all QE Facilities vacancies: QE Facilities (QEF) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (GHNT), based in the North East of England. We provide a range of non- clinical services to GHNT and other NHS organisations. Our services include: estates, facilities services, procurement, medical engineering and devices, endoscopy decontamination and sterile services, transport, out-patient pharmacy, and prevention & management of violence & aggression training (PMVA). In addition we provide consultancy services, advising clients on all aspects of establishing a subsidiary company within an NHS body to the provision of VAT compliance advice.