Band 5
Band 5
Estates Officer
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time — 37.5 hours per week (08:00 to 16:00, M‑F)
Job ref: 287-CEF-365-25
Department: LUH – 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site: Royal Liverpool, Liverpool
Salary: £31,049 – £37,796 per annum
Closing: 05/12/2025 23:59
Job Overview
We are seeking to recruit a suitably experienced Estates Officer at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital site. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Trust’s Estates Engineering department. The successful candidate will demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and professionalism, working within a fast‑paced healthcare environment. We are looking for a self‑starter who will work effectively both individually and as part of a team.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
* Provide efficient and effective administrative and technical support to the Estate Maintenance Department.
* Supervise and co‑ordinate a group of multi‑skilled maintenance staff and other trades, including maintenance assistants and apprentices.
* Be responsible for the effective planning and efficient use of labour and financial resources.
* Promote a positive culture within the workforce with regard to health and safety, manual handling, permits to work and risk assessments.
* Monitor performance, standards and audit completed works carried out by directly employed staff, agency labour and contractors.
* Supervise maintenance and/or minor works schemes and activities.
* Allocate labour to the Works and Estate Response Desk, planned preventative maintenance and minor works schemes, ensuring agreed response times are achieved and statutory programmes completed.
* Be involved in the successful resolution of complex faults on all types of building services systems and equipment.
Person Specification – Qualifications
* Essential criteria
HND or equivalent (engineering or management)
* Desirable criteria
A City & Guilds of London Institute Certificate Course 205 Mechanical Engineering Maintenance Part II (Course ref 232‑2)
Experience
* Essential criteria
Line management experience in a building services environment (managing staff and contractors)
* Desirable criteria
Attendance at the NHS Training Centre in Steriliser Testing and Maintenance would be an advantage.
Fully time‑served Fitter.
Skills
* Essential criteria
Proven knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and statutory obligations relating to Estates operations and compliance.
Good oral, written and presentation skills.
Ability to interpret spreadsheets and analyse spend/performance data.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Ability to prioritise work and cope with competing demands.
Analytical, IT and computer skills.
* Desirable criteria
The ability to carry out both gas and electric arc welding would be an advantage.
Knowledge of NHS Estate code, Health Technical Memorandums and Codes of Practice relating to health and safety and engineering services.
Experience using a CAFM system.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly, as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right‑to‑work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work‑life balance and fair, equitable and consistent practice. Flexible working requests will be considered from day one of employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following under‑represented groups: black, Asian and minority ethnic, LGBTQ+, disabled, male and age 16‑24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant’s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (enhanced). From April 2017, skilled visa applicants and their adult dependants will be required to provide a criminal record certificate for each country they have lived in for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website – https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
All staff must adhere to the organisation’s safeguarding children and adults policy and comply with local safeguarding procedures. All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain safeguarding knowledge and skills through mandatory training.
The Trust has adopted the Merseyside Domestic Abuse Workplace scheme to support staff experiencing domestic abuse and sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process, please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges: (information omitted for brevity).
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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