Estates Operations Manager

Epsom & St Helier NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Band 8b

Main area: Estates and Facilities

Grade: Band 8b

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be expected to work additional hours as required)

Job ref: 343-7088857-FM-HM

Site: St Helier Hospital

Town: Carshalton

Closing: 24/04/2025 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job Overview

To ensure the safe and effective operation of the Estate so that it remains fully fit for purpose.

To provide inspirational leadership to a large team of skilled multi-disciplinary trade staff and external contractors ensuring that they are efficiently and effectively deployed to deliver planned and reactive maintenance.

To deliver the maintenance plan to ensure that all hospital assets work when required in line with agreed budgets.

To be the focal point for effective communications with key internal and external stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

• Provide inspirational leadership to a large team of Directly Employed trade staff and contractors.
• Manage the performance of the team to ensure they deliver outstanding service within agreed budgets.
• Continuously explore ways to improve delivery to services, patients and visitors and through this achieve excellence in safety, service efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ensure that trade staff and contract resources are effectively planned and scheduled to optimise efficient delivery of work plans.
• Ensure that KPI reports outlining the performance of assets and resources are derived using the CAFM system.
• Ensure that the skills and competencies of trade staff and contractors are constantly developed to meet the needs of the future work plan, ensuring that the minimum resource is deployed necessary to complete the works and that non-productive time is minimised/eliminated.
• Ensure that resource deployment is managed in accordance with demand forecasts, that attendance is managed and accurately recorded and that skills and competencies are accurately recorded such that work scheduling is effective.
• Ensure all trade staff have their performance reviewed as part of the appraisal process and that poor performance is addressed.
• Manage the maintenance team to successfully implement change through the effective communication of compelling messages.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Apprentice or higher level.
• 10 years experience in line management role.
• Communication to stakeholders.
• Authorised person.

Desirable criteria

• Asset Management using CAFM system.
• Communicate to trust Senior Leaders.

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.

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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