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Estates operations manager

London
Barts Health NHS Trust
Operations manager
Posted: 16h ago
Offer description

Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for the integrity of the Mechanical, Electrical, Building and Fabric infrastructure and for providing specialist technical advice to the day-to-day management of the Trust’s buildings with regard to breakdowns, planned preventative maintenance and minor works projects whilst providing expert advice on all aspects of Estates Specialist Services.

This role includes responsibility for the development and implementation of the maintenance strategy for all estates assets, ensuring full compliance and identification of risks/issues as they arise management of all estates building and engineering staff, specialist contractors and consultants.

The post holder shall ensure that all plant and equipment is serviced and maintained throughout the Trust’s property, in accordance with Statutory and Trust requirements.

The post holder will be responsible for the supervision and management of the Estates Officers and their team of in-house multi-skilled maintenance team, as well as coordination of specialist contractors.

The post holder will assume the role of the site lead electrical Authorised Person and provide specialist advice and duties as defined by HTM 06.

The role will also include responsibility for ensuring that the site has compliant value-for-money service contracts for all specialist Estates maintenance services.

Main duties of the job

Oversee the Estates Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) system.

Ensure an appropriate system of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) is in place and kept up to date.

Ensure that the PPM schedules within the CAFM system are updated as required.

Ensure that an accurate asset register is collated and maintained.

Oversee the Estates Department’s information management system to ensure that appropriate records and certificates are retained to ensure that the hospital can readily demonstrate maintenance statutory and mandatory compliance.

Ensure that all work, undertaken by both in-house resource and external contractors, is compliant with all legislation.

Carry out and document regular audits to measure quality and performance of the tasks undertaken.

Adhere to standing financial instructions and ensure value for money on all tenders and purchases. Additionally, place orders for materials and services.

Through audit processes demonstrate compliance with all relevant legislation, Safety Alerts, HTM’s, safe systems of work, Approved Codes of Practice.

Be responsible for updating the hospital and Trust Risk Register. Collate key estates information required by NHS England Premises Assurance Model (PAM).

Ensure Authorised Person (AP) and Responsible person (RP) accreditations

Provide specialist engineering technical support and advice to the Estates operations team.

Be responsible for ensuring appraisals and Statutory and Mandatory training.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1. Educated to HND/Degree level in a Building Services Engineering or Electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
2. Quality Improvement training or qualification

Desirable criteria

3. Project management training or qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

4. Detailed working knowledge of HTM’s and HBN’s
5. Detailed working knowledge of Preventative and Reactive maintenance regimes.

Skills

Essential criteria

6. Good leadership skills – with the ability to motivate and facilitate in order to deliver results.
7. Excellent communication skills and ability to discuss Estates issues with all levels of management.
8. Takes the initiative to establish immediate credibility with a range of internal and external stakeholders
9. Ability to deliver quality work in a fast-paced environment with conflicting priorities.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

10. Extensive knowledge of the maintenance of building services in large complex buildings
11. Knowledge gained through the route of craft/technician and estates management level and preferably in the NHS and up to Post Graduate Education level

Desirable criteria

12. Previous knowledge of health sector Estate management

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