Job summary
- Main area
- Management of Estates, buildings and engineering
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: NA
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 435-E022-24
- Employer
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Blackburn
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Manager- Operations
NHS AfC: Band 7
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
The post holder will support the Head of Estates and manage the service delivery of the Estates Department, taking the lead in the delivery of Statutory Compliance. The role will maintain a close and effective working relationship with the Estates and Facilities teams to ensure an effective integrated service is delivering a safe and compliant environment for patient’s staff and visitors. This role will lead on the management of the Estates Department and oversee staff, contractors or consultants working on schemes across the diverse estate of the Trust. The post holder will also provide expertise and technical advice to the Trust on issues relating to compliance with Health Technical Memoranda (HTM) and act as the Trust’s Authorised Person for a building engineering discipline in line with HTM.
Main duties of the job
- Take the lead on Statutory Compliance for the Estate Dept
- Ensure the Trust has adequate Competent and Approved Persons to cover for the following; Ventilation, medical gas pipeline systems, Water, Low Voltage, Lifts, ( and any other as requested)
- To act as Authorised Person for the following: MGPS, Water, Low Voltage, Ventilation, Lifts, in line with all HTMs
- Liaise with Local Authority agencies i.e. planning, building control or Local power distribution network operators (eg. Electricity Northwest Limited) when necessary.
- Contribute to Estates led committees such as ventilation, water safety, medical gases, Electrical Safety and asbestos management committees.
- Contribute to the Trust Premises Assurance Model and chair sub working groups as required.
- Provide specialist knowledge in relation to all site Electrical, Mechanical and Building services.
- Ensure statutory compliance and appropriate record keeping.
- Implement and review procedures to ensure waste is minimised in all forms, whilst keeping control of budgets, cost and compliance.
- Input into the Estates strategy to protect the Trust’s future estate requirements and the fulfilment of that requirement.
Working for our organisation
At East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care.
This is an exciting opportunity for an Estates Manager(operations) to join the Estates and Facilities Department to support the team in providing Estates Management leadership across all Trust sites. You will be based at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospitals or Burnley General Hospital and will work closely with and report to the Head of Estates. Each day, task or challenge on the healthcare estate is different. This role gives the right candidate an opportunity to make a difference to patients and staff everyday as they manage maintenance teams within healthcare estates, facilities and engineering environments. If this is what you are looking for, then this is the right job for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Manage the team’s business support function including developing and managing the team’s business plan progress and identifying and reporting risk using established governance processes.
- Liaise with appropriate stakeholders across the organisation
- Manage all performance returns including business planning and workforce
- Develop and implement service transformation and improvements
- Management of the department’s budget and annual release of Cost Improvement savings schemes
- Maintain service quality systems and procedures
- Ensure annual training and development plans are completed
- Undertake annual evaluation of service provision via stakeholders
- Identify commercial opportunities for the areas within your scope of responsibility
- Define service level agreement with all customers ensuring that education of service expectations are identified and are accepted
- High levels of customer and patient care are maintained
- Market the services both internally and externally
- Contribute to the Trusts Estates strategy and plans of its future estates requirements and assist in the delivery of that requirement.
- Liaising with the Trust’s Specialist Fire Safety Advisor, Infection Control, Finance Department, the Health and Safety Adviser, Department Managers, Supplies Procurement Manager, and other Trust Advisers as required.
- Selection and appointment of contactors in accordance with best practice, SFI’s and procurement legislation.
- Liaise and co-ordinate inputs from External Agencies, including Local Authority Planning, Health and Safety Executive, Building Control and Environmental Health, Department of Health.
Person specification
Healthcare experience
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualifications or significant experience at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of continued professional development at a similar level
- Experience of managing Health & Safety compliance, risks, reporting them, and risk mitigation
- Experience of managing Estates and Facilities across Healthcare environments, public sector or NHS
- Experience of monitoring budgets and business planning processes in the construction or maintenance environment
- Management of maintenance teams, staff, external consultants and contractors
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrew Appiah
- Job title
- Head of Estates and Facilities
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07984407121
- Additional information
NA
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