Job summary
The Carbon and Energy Manager will be the Trust lead specialist with anoverall responsibility for establishing, monitoring and overseeing energy management and policy across the Trust. The post-holder will lead on and co-ordinate the Trust's strategic approach to energy management and carbon reduction, embedding the approach across the Trust's policies and practices. Working within the wider sustainability team to support the organisations net zero transition.
Main duties of the job
Main responsibilities include:
- Responsibility for managing the annual energy budgets, maintaining an audit trail, ensuring compliance with the Trust's standing financialinstructions.
- Responsibility for managing the outsourced energy managementcontracts at all sites, ensuring contractors meet their contractualrequirements.
- Develop systems and procedures to ensure compliance with relevantlegislation and ensure adoption of these procedures across the Trust.Audit and review relevant procedures.
- Produce regular reports on energy and carbon reduction performance to the Committees and the Trust Board.
- Programme manage the implementation of energy and carbon reduction schemes.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click herehttps://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities include:
- Responsibility for managing the annual energy budgets, maintaining an audit trail, ensuring compliance with the Trusts standing financialinstructions.
- Responsibility for managing the outsourced energy managementcontracts at all sites, ensuring contractors meet their contractualrequirements.
- Develop systems and procedures to ensure compliance with relevantlegislation and ensure adoption of these procedures across the Trust.Audit and review relevant procedures.
- Produce regular reports on energy and carbon reduction performance to the Committees and the Trust Board.
- Programme manage the implementation of energy and carbon reduction schemes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main responsibilities include:
- Responsibility for managing the annual energy budgets, maintaining an audit trail, ensuring compliance with the Trusts standing financialinstructions.
- Responsibility for managing the outsourced energy managementcontracts at all sites, ensuring contractors meet their contractualrequirements.
- Develop systems and procedures to ensure compliance with relevantlegislation and ensure adoption of these procedures across the Trust.Audit and review relevant procedures.
- Produce regular reports on energy and carbon reduction performance to the Committees and the Trust Board.
- Programme manage the implementation of energy and carbon reduction schemes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or with equivalent experience within an environmental discipline
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience in relevant area
Desirable
- Membership of relevant professional body such as the Energy Institute or equivalent
- Formal Project Management / auditing training qualification
Experience
Essential
- A robust track record of delivering an environmental or sustainability role within a complex organisation
- Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
- Negotiating and influencing experience on a wide range of issues
- Demonstrable financial management experience
Desirable
- Demonstrable operational experience
- Experienced project management of a diverse portfolio of schemes including deadlines, standards and budget constraints
- Experience of designing and implementing new systems and processes for managing and reporting information
- Experience within a pressured change orientated environment with ability to plan and prioritise work effectively
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of national and local environmental and sustainability policies
- Knowledge of relevant NHS guidance
- Working knowledge and understanding of the application of relevant British legislation and good practice in respect of energy and environmental issues
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS procedures and structures
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work across all levels both within the organisation including at senior management level and outside the organisation
- Excellent communication skills in order to communicate complex information effectively to a range of technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to develop, implement and monitor policies, procedures and systems to support core areas and disciplines
- Excellent report writing, strategy development, consultation and presentational skills
- Good negotiation skills, excellent influencing skills, raising the profile and commitment to energy and environmental issues.
- Procurement and contract negotiation with suppliers including performance and contract management
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable development of good working relationships with personnel outside the direct control of the individual. Able to establish credibility and good relationships and manage those relations with sensitivity and diplomacy
- Innovator and decision-maker with the ability to communicate new and controversial ideas
- Good computer skills to develop or create reports, documents, spreadsheets and presentations. High levels of computer literacy are required in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail and internet
Desirable
- Facilitation skills and Train the Trainer qualification
- Able to think strategically and contribute to the management of the organisation as a whole, and to the development of the organisational culture and management of change
- Statistical analysis skills
- Excellent leadership skills with an open and participative management style and an ability to motivate others and work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Use of Microsoft Project
Other
Essential
- Highly self-motivated with a demonstrated ability and confidence to work on own initiative. Good team player
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload independently
- Very organised with attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and fair access
- Multi-tasking and management of competing priorities. Able to work quickly, accurately and under pressure to multiple deadlines
- Works best in a challenging environment
Desirable
- Ability and confidence to challenge current working practices
- Innovative and creative in problem solving
- Strong networking with other NHS and nonNHS energy and environmental managers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or with equivalent experience within an environmental discipline
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience in relevant area
Desirable
- Membership of relevant professional body such as the Energy Institute or equivalent
- Formal Project Management / auditing training qualification
Experience
Essential
- A robust track record of delivering an environmental or sustainability role within a complex organisation
- Experience of working collaboratively with other organisations
- Negotiating and influencing experience on a wide range of issues
- Demonstrable financial management experience
Desirable
- Demonstrable operational experience
- Experienced project management of a diverse portfolio of schemes including deadlines, standards and budget constraints
- Experience of designing and implementing new systems and processes for managing and reporting information
- Experience within a pressured change orientated environment with ability to plan and prioritise work effectively
Knowledge
Essential
- Specialist knowledge of national and local environmental and sustainability policies
- Knowledge of relevant NHS guidance
- Working knowledge and understanding of the application of relevant British legislation and good practice in respect of energy and environmental issues
Desirable
- Knowledge of NHS procedures and structures
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work across all levels both within the organisation including at senior management level and outside the organisation
- Excellent communication skills in order to communicate complex information effectively to a range of technical and nontechnical audiences at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to develop, implement and monitor policies, procedures and systems to support core areas and disciplines
- Excellent report writing, strategy development, consultation and presentational skills
- Good negotiation skills, excellent influencing skills, raising the profile and commitment to energy and environmental issues.
- Procurement and contract negotiation with suppliers including performance and contract management
- Strong interpersonal skills to enable development of good working relationships with personnel outside the direct control of the individual. Able to establish credibility and good relationships and manage those relations with sensitivity and diplomacy
- Innovator and decision-maker with the ability to communicate new and controversial ideas
- Good computer skills to develop or create reports, documents, spreadsheets and presentations. High levels of computer literacy are required in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, e-mail and internet
Desirable
- Facilitation skills and Train the Trainer qualification
- Able to think strategically and contribute to the management of the organisation as a whole, and to the development of the organisational culture and management of change
- Statistical analysis skills
- Excellent leadership skills with an open and participative management style and an ability to motivate others and work under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Use of Microsoft Project
Other
Essential
- Highly self-motivated with a demonstrated ability and confidence to work on own initiative. Good team player
- Able to plan and prioritise own workload independently
- Very organised with attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and fair access
- Multi-tasking and management of competing priorities. Able to work quickly, accurately and under pressure to multiple deadlines
- Works best in a challenging environment
Desirable
- Ability and confidence to challenge current working practices
- Innovative and creative in problem solving
- Strong networking with other NHS and nonNHS energy and environmental managers
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
