Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (2 posts one working 2 days a week 15 hours per week and one working 22.5 hours a week 3 days)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0765
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority house Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Facilities Officer
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Here are some clips of our Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust staff, speaking about their role and why they enjoy working for us
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
KMMH will shortly be taking on NEW sites in Kent
As a Facilities Officer you will line manage for House Keeping staff who work varying shifts across various sites in Kent. supporting the management of soft FM contracts, a working Knowledge of Health & Safety, Fire Regulations & Trust Policies, including HR, Waste Regulations, NHS Cleaning Standards 2025, Infection Control and Sustainability.
You will act as a point of contact and maintain excellent working relationships with all stake holders, service managers, matrons, general managers, external contractors and colleagues.
The role will support our patients utilising our services within our properties and you will provide service improvements and help us live our values every day.
Days and Shifts to be agreed
Main duties of the job
- Visit all sites within the remit once a month to check on all staff’s health and well-being, maintain good communication skills via telephone, emails and face to face.
- Manage your team including MAPS. 1-2-1’s, annual appraisals, annual leave, sickness and disciplinary procedures.
- Completing annual risk assessment reviews inside the directed timeframes internal and external Workplace Check lists and report back any new findings, ensuring compliance is being met at all times
- Attend monthly meetings with the Facilities teams and the Wider Senior Management team, meeting, and assisting with any queries or concerns raised.
- Remain in the annual financial budgets allocated per site and raise concerns identified.
- Maintain and update MICAD for all of the directorate compliance reporting.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Supervision of House Keeping Staff, whilst ensuring our sites are cleaned to the required standard within the National Cleaning Standards 2025, attend cleaning and efficacy audits for your sites.
- Attend Trust Facilities/Wider Senior Management Team, Building User Group, Green Champion Meetings on a monthly basis.
- Assist Estates and Capitol Planning Team and attend meetings for update on our sites to ensure all staff are aware and assist where necessary
- Attend Fire Risk Assessments for your sites annually
- Maintain excellent communication for all Service Managers General Managers, Matrons, Service Leads for your sites.
- Assist External Contractors with our sites and access as and when required
- Maintain communication and address any financial findings to our Finance and Procurement colleagues, Also look into saving money across our sites.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- National General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health NEBOSH, NVQ or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience in a supervisory role
- Undertaking Health and Safety Audits
- Use of TEAMs, and other Microsoft packages
- Risk Management experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written communication skills
- Manual Handling Risk Assessments Training
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of MICAD (CAFM)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vanessa Rank
- Job title
- Facilities Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07889150314
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