Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-EA094-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Officer
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to join our busy Estates Team as an Estates Officer.
The purpose of this role will be to support the Estates Manager to ensure the Trust’s electrical/mechanical equipment is maintained to statutory and mandatory standards which will ensure a well maintained safe and secure environment for our patients, staff and visitors.
Main duties of the job
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.
The responsibilities also include maintaining and refining the planned preventative maintenance, repair and replacement programmes, minor projects work, and ensuring that current legislation, regulations and safe systems of work are adhered to.
You should be qualified to Degree level or equivalent experience, plus specialist NHS knowledge in a relevant engineering discipline and have experience in the management of both contractors and in-house staff.
This position will require you to participate in the Estates emergency on-call rota which includes out of hours working.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or HND (or equivalent) in Engineering plus equivalent significant demonstrable experience and knowledge
- Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience of leading and managing staff within an Estates function
Desirable criteria
- Corporate/full member status with a relevant engineering body/institution
- Authorised person for Low Voltage electrical systems, lifts, medical gases, hot and cold water systems (legionella) and/or management of asbestos in buildings
- IOSH certificate for Managing Safety
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of a wide range of Estates operation and compliance systems, processes etc
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing day to day professional and technical Estates and Facilities services within a mental health environment.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and statutory obligations relating to Estates operations and compliance.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of NHS Estate code, Health Technical Memorandums in relation to engineering services and Codes of Practice relating to Health and Safety and Engineering services
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jason Rual
- Job title
- Operational Maintenance Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976677279
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