Asset, Lifecycle & Compliance Manager

Main area Facilities Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08:30 to 16:30) Job ref 339-FM2764-CCC

Site Southmead Hospital Town Bristol Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (FTE) or pro-rata for part time roles Salary period Yearly Closing 21/04/2025 23:59

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Job overview

Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic, high-performing Retained Estates team dedicated to ensuring Statutory and Mandatory compliance excellence? Do you want to join a team of subject matter experts and professionals who are passionate about achieving technical hard facilities service compliance in order to keep our patients, visitors and staff safe?

You will equally be supporting the compliant delivery of a brand new 40 bedded Bristol Surgical Centre that is currently under construction on our Southmead hospital site, due to be opened to our patients in the summer of 2025.

About us

We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.

In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including:

• The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK.
• A minimum of 27 days annual holiday allowance (not including bank holidays), plus the option to buy and sell. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Salary sacrifice scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Free staff counselling service.
• Free stop smoking service.

Main duties of the job

This role is a crucial post in ensuring that NBT is compliant with statutory and mandatory requirements for all Retained Estates service provision across a complex and multi-site organisation.

The role will provide assurance of hard services compliance to the Facilities Operations Director, and collate and monitor asset and lifecycle performance. Supporting the Trusts agenda of providing an appropriate and compliant environment to all patients, visitors and staff.

Pro-actively monitoring compliance metrics and producing dashboards identifying trend for remedial and/or improvement programmes to enhance the NBT estate and its infrastructure.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Produce asset management policies, processes and associated procedures with engagement from project and operational teams.
• Use of the CAFM system (Planet) to utilise Asset Management Information to generate reports and inform capital spend budgets.
• To provide support and guidance to the operational teams to ensure compliance with statutory legislation and critical maintenance of buildings services equipment.
• To produce an asset hierarchy to ensure any future asset data captures are done in line with an agreed asset structure.
• To complete a review of the asset database for each building, assessment and allocation of asset criticality including engagement with operational teams.
• Assistance with producing data to inform the development of future planned maintenance budgets and labour structures.
• To carryout statutory compliance audits and track rectification against any actions, working and advising the operational teams responsible for the rectification.
• Liaison with project and operations teams to ensure handover of newly installed assets is captured into planned maintenance tasks, whether this be through asset change or through data from O&Ms.

Person specification

Shortlisting Criteria

• Certificate or Diploma in Asset Management
• Health & Safety training (IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH General Certificate)
• Experience of producing, managing and updating mechanical and electrical forward maintenance registers and lifecycle databases
• Experience of carrying out statutory and mandatory compliance audits and assisting in the production of rectification plans
• Experience of Computer Aided Facilities Management systems, using them to import new asset data and amend PPM regimes
• Experience of creating asset structures
• Experience of deploying and managing asset change processes

If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Please note that North Bristol NHS Trust does not reimburse travel expenses relating to interview attendance.

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North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Paul Jenkins Job title Associate Director of Estates and Support Services Email address paul.jenkins@nbt.nhs.uk Telephone number 01179 505050 Additional information

Contact by email Monday to Friday 08:00-16:00