Main area Facilities Site Management - Trust Wide Support Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 350-TWS6103375
Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Leigh Moss Town Liverpool Salary £35,392 - £42,618 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/05/2024 23:59 Interview date 14/05/2024
Facilities Site Manager
Band 6
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Job overview
Appropriate advert has been requested from appointing manager - included with non-compliance request.
Main duties of the job
To provide operational and professional leadership to Facilities support staff, ensuring the provision of a high quality FM service to the Liverpool Mersey Care Trust economy at the following sites.
Heys Court L19 5NG, the Hope Centre L15 2HE and Leigh Moss L14 5NX
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To undertake the daily operational responsibility to ensure that all sites run smoothly, in direct relation to all Facilities services including housekeeping, portering, and catering services, waste management, security, fire safety, H&S signage, cleanliness including external areas such as grounds and gardens and general operational maintenance across all sites.
To be the first point of contact for both clinical and non-clinical services with regard to ensuring that usage of the sites responsible, including storage space is provided in an equitable and effective manner and any unwanted items are disposed of in the appropriate manner and to monitor this on a regular basis.
To manage relevant external contractors to ensure an effective value for money service. To look for ways to improve current services and contracts in the best interest of the Trust.
Responsible for managing the lift/door access system, developing improved methods / systems of accessing the lift and working with all parties using the building to maximise efficiency. To work with external contractors and consultants to develop, implement and review effective systems of work within the sites responsible.
To manage and ensure that all security systems and procedures are effective and known throughout all of the sites responsible. Work with NHS SMS to ensure that the sites responsible comply with SMS Directives and H&S legislation. Where necessary to develop/enhance security systems to ensure the safety of service users, carers, staff and visitors to the site. To further develop existing internal communication channels to achieve
this.
To be responsible for all internal and external contractual arrangements; to include being the main source of communication, coordinating, monitoring to minimise disruption. This will include external suppliers and their representatives.
To be responsible for the management of all non-clinical complaints within Trust guidelines and to look for and implement corrective actions and / or problem solving techniques to reduce reoccurrences, as appropriate.
To be fully aware and trained in the latest Health and Safety requirements in connection with managing an NHS site. To use this knowledge in every day issues that arise as appropriate and when necessary and through routine matters, utilising expertise from Fire Safety Service and / or Estates Officers.
To facilitate the equitable use of space and the allocation of any available accommodation, where appropriate consulting with users and where necessary operating as an independent arbitrator. To ensure all MCT Directorates receive an equitable Facilities Management services within the sites responsible. To liaise with all Mental Health Care Division and Trust Wide Support Service Managers to deliver an equitable service.
To work collaboratively with the Facilities Management Team on the development of Services.
To operate an affective system of reporting and monitoring both incidentals, emergency and planned maintenance requirements to include monitoring the LSHP contract and other SLA’s in place.
To manage multi-departmental budgets, to deliver a balanced budget, and generally to ensure that all financial actions accord with the Trust’s SFI’s and guidelines. To have management responsibility for the procurement, maintenance and monitoring of all physical assets and supplies for multiple departments within the sites responsible.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
* Minimum 5 years experience within a management role
* Minimum 2 years experience in Facilities Management
* Minimum 2 years Health Service experience
* Experience of working at both operational and strategic levels
* Evidence of successful and practical application of service review and redesign techniques
* Involvement of service users in planning and review
* Involvement in mental health services
* Experience in identifying, designing, developing, managing and delivering business planning processes
* Experience in local authority or voluntary sector
* Experience of change management
Knowledge
* Educated to degree level or equivalent managerial experience
* Health & Safety qualification IOSH/NEBOSH
* Knowledge of budget management
* Knowledge of change management process
* Understanding of current NHS policies and their implications for service delivery
* Membership of the British Institute of Facilities Management
* Knowledge of project management methodology
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Leadership and management skills
* Excellent listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
* Ability to analyse information and gain a clear understanding of the issues
* Ability to work with a wide range of health professionals
* Ability to work corporately
* Excellent keyboard skills
* Evidence of continued professional development
* Car driver/access to transport
* Ability to develop and create innovative solutions to problems
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team is able to prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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