Senior Estates Officer (Electrical)

Job responsibilities

• To establish and measure the quality of all Trust wide estate technical services and contribute to negotiations in relation to contracting matters provided against contract specifications, national/local standards, and Trust financial criteria.
• To assist the General Manager Technical Services to manage and develop the Trust estate, to ensure that all services meet statutory and NHS guidance

Responsible for ensuring services are delivered in compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory requirements, contract specifications, performance management systems, key performance indicators and contractual obligations.

Responsible for acting as AP and/or CP for associated estate services functions.

Provide professional and technical support to facilities management colleagues and wider Trust teams.

• To develop and implement and manage a robust Planned Preventative Maintenance system that ensures compliance with all associated HTMs, HSE statute and best practice guidance.

Provide technical support to the capital development team to ensure that capital schemes and minor works are delivered in compliance with any associated HTM and HBN requirements.

Provide advice, guidance and support to the Trust and its partners on estate maintenance management to encourage appropriate and innovative management solutions.

Contribute to the strategic planning process at Divisional level, to ensure that a full account of matters relating to sustainable estate maintenance management issues arising from internal and external trends are realised.

Contribute to the development and dissemination of policy and guidance in line with NHS and Trust priorities and operational needs to ensure that staff can make well-founded management decisions.

Act as local champion for sustainable property use and development by raising awareness, promoting the availability of expertise and the contribution that the function can make to Trust-wide objectives, to enable managers and other disciplines to take full advantage of the specialist advice available.

Maintain & develop the Trusts records as appropriate and contribute to the effective management and wider sharing of knowledge and information to develop and promote involvement in and understanding of the Trusts estate.

Participate in appropriate internal and external meetings and forums to ensure the delivery of a complaint estate service and assist in the future development of the Trust estate and to ensure that regional and national policy is implemented at local level.

As directed, to ensure that the management of notices from the Department of Health and NHS Estates are acted upon and objectives met.

To assist in the development and modernisation of the estate services in order that recognised best practice is adopted wherever possible.

Assist in the development and maintenance of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) as well as providing assistance to others towards the Trust's performance against any other appropriate standards.

Assist with the development of the Trust's interface and SLAs with its NHS and PFI partners.

Where possible measure performances of contracting bodies and inform the client body.

As directed by the General Manager Technical Services, undertake appropriate special projects.

Qualifications

Essential

• Membership of an associated professional organisation/institution e.g., CIBSE, BIFM, IHEEM etc
• Educated to a Degree level or equivalent, in an associated field e.g., building services, Mechanical Engineering
• Associated AP training certification
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Post Graduate qualification in an associated field

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of estates services
• A sound experience of managing asbestos containing materials (ACM's) within nondomestic properties
• A sound knowledge of building and engineering service maintenance and instillation, previous control of experience to budget control management
• Excellent personal organizational management skills
• To be able to act on their own initiative
• Excellent team working skills
• Ability to produce high quality written reports
• To be able to develop good working relationships with all levels of staff
• Experience of working under pressure and delivering to challenging deadlines
• Skilled at working with multi-disciplinary teams

Desirable

• Proven ability to produce detailed reports and Business cases to Board level relating to estates services provision
• Ability to manage own time
• Able to exercise independent judgment

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable post qualification at senior estates level within a public sector organisation or consultancy with experience in managing a range of NHS estates services
• Proven expertise in strategically and operationally managing day to day performance
• Able to participate in service evaluation activities and processes
• Able to support the development of supplier performance metrics and contract performance systems and in briefing Senior Management using Key Performance Indicators if appropriate
• Able to help develop associated estates works and service specifications and tender documentation as part of commissioning and procurement processes
• Demonstratable ability to assist senior managers with the establishment of new estates systems and service delivery models
• Able to ensure that all the estates services activity meets legislative requirements through professional knowledge and, where required, liaison with professional advisors
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and academic progression
• A good working knowledge of computers with exposure to related software and operating systems such as Microsoft, AutoCAD, and BIM

Desirable

• Experienced and understanding of the NHS Procurement process
• Experience of cross team working to determine best fit service provision through market testing and benchmarking activities

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).