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Job summary

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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-472-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Estates Officer (Mechanical)

Band 5

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a suitably experienced Estates Officer (Mechanical) 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 need to be able to demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and professionalism, working within a fast-paced healthcare environment. We are looking for a self-starter who will be able to work effectively both individually and as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

You will be experienced in the supervision of operation and management within a large organisation, managing specialist contractors along with directly employed staff.

The permanent position is contracted to 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday; however you will be required to join our out of hours on call service. Overtime and on call payments will be made in addition.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Manages all building maintenance services and responsible for the day to day delivery of building and engineering maintenance:

  • To provide efficient and effective administrative and technical support to the Estate Maintenance Department.
  • To supervise and co-ordinate a group of multi-skilled maintenance staff and other trades including maintenance assistants and apprentices.
  • To be responsible for the effective planning and efficient use of both labour and financial resources.
  • To be responsible for engendering a positive culture within the workforce with regard to health and safety, manual handling, including permits to work and risk assessments.
  • To be responsible for performance, standards monitoring and auditing of completed works, carried out by the directly employed staff, agency labour and contractors.
  • To supervise both maintenance and/or minor works schemes and activities.
  • To allocate labour to the Works and Estate Response Desk, planned preventative maintenance, and/or minor works schemes resulting in agreed response times being achieved, and monitor maintenance and statutory programmes being completed and minor works schemes meeting agreed deadlines.
  • To be involved in the successful resolution of complex faults on all types of building services systems and equipment.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • HND/equivalent
  • A City and Guilds of London Institute Certificate Course 205 Mechanical Engineering Maintenance Part Il (course ref 232-2)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Fully time served Fitter
Desirable criteria
  • Attendance at the NHS Training Centre in Steriliser Testing and Maintenance would be an advantage

Skills

Essential criteria
  • The ability to carry out both gas and electric arc welding would be an advantage

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran Aware

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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Chris Flowers
Job title
Operational Estates Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 529 2928