Job overview
Epsom and St Helier trust are recruiting an experienced person who is compliant, resilient, safe estate and deliver an efficient and cost-effective maintenance service with a focus on Ventilation systems.
Responsible to Estates Director/Head of Estates for ventilation with responsibility for overseeing contractors and inhouse engineers delegated under your supervision.
You will act as a specialist on behalf of the Trust for all aspects of Engineering & Building Services with emphasis on Ventilation and will be responsible for ensuring the reliability of the engineering infrastructure, systems and equipment, acting in the role of AP Ventilation.
Responsible for ensuring that engineering maintenance, including contract work, is carried out to the appropriate standard and specification, act as the Trust Clerk of works and commissioning specialist for site inspections, testing and commissioning to all new and refurbishment works carried out on both sites.
Main duties of the job
Provide detailed professional and technical estates advice and support to the senior leadership team within Estates, Trust staff external contractors and consultants covering any issues relating to or that have an impact on the delivery of the operational service.
Ensure compliance with all Statutory Standards, Codes of Practice, Health and Safety Guidance, Health Technical Memoranda, COSHH, Building Regulations and NHS Executive Directives, relating to Estates Services.
Be a point of Escalation for critical ventilation systems, ensuring service continuity, quality and resilience to areas delegated under your supervision.
Under the direction of principle engineer Lead on rectification of faults and defects on critical ventilation systems identified from reports.
Lead on fault finding on critical Ventilation systems and rectification of faults including troubleshooting.
Provide effective day to day support and liaison to both the operational estates team and specialist external agencies (contractors) delegated to your area of supervision.
Deputise for the Estates Director/Head of estates for ventilation and take responsibility for decisions, works, budgets quotations and people management as necessary
Create and develop ventilation SOPs and monitor their adherence to those delegated under your supervision.
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Carry out the duties of AP for Asbestos, working from heights and confined spaces trust wide
To collect and maintain the asset base for all sites and work
in conjunction with the CAFM manager on compiling the
Preventative Maintenance Schedule
Will be responsible for ensuring that all matters related to the
estates department quality control are implemented and the
trust gains and remains statutory compliant to HTMs, HBNs,
Person specification
Previous experience
Essential criteria
1. Relevant previous experience in similar role
2. previous experience as AP
Qualification
Essential criteria
3. Qualified as CP in relevant disciplines
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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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.
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Further details / informal visits contact
Namechris riversJob titleDirector of Estates and FacilitiesEmail addressTelephone number07971 301790