Senior Estates Officer

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Liverpool Women's delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. Each year we deliver over 8,300 babies, carry out over 10,000 gynaecological procedures, and care for over 1,000 poorly and preterm newborns, making us the specialist provider of health services for women, babies and their families in Europe.

We have some of the leading experts in their field, and, after featuring on One Born Every Minute, Miracle Babies and Special Baby Unit, our teams are famous across the world for their professionalism, skill and compassion.

Liverpool Women's Hospital clinical services are currently being reviewed by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, following work done by our clinicians in presenting a powerful case for change in the Future Generations Strategy.

A useful information booklet is available about the proposed changes which can be downloaded from the Healthy Liverpool website facebook.com/healthylvpool. This booklet clearly states that 'there is absolutely no threat to the services themselves - this is about making what we have even better and protecting services for the future'.

Liverpool Women's has an excellent reputation and is a centre of excellence. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career for many years to come.

We invite you to review why Liverpool Women's Hospital is a great place to work: https://vimeo.com/556197652

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Job overview

• The post holder will have technical, managerial and supervisory control over subordinate staff and specialist contractors.
• Working within the relative specialties of building, electrical, and mechanical engineering. Ensure that planned preventative and reactive maintenance work; undertaken by in-house maintenance staff and specialist contractors, is provided within pre-designated time spans at a competitive cost, providing technical input as required, to ensure compliance with all statutory regulations and legislation.
• To minimise disruption to the running of hospital departments.
• To manage and arrange shutdowns, connections and adaptations to specialised hospital services which facilitate progress on major capital and minor schemes . Carrying out estimates for works within defined budgets. Acting as authorised person for specialist services when appropriate.
• Responsible for ensuring that departments receive technical support with regard to the following specialties; Decontamination equipment (sterilisers / washer disinfectors), medical gases, ventilation systems, steam systems, building construction, water systems including drainage, natural gas systems, boiler plant, electrical systems (HV and LV), energy monitoring & reporting, fire alarms, mechanical engineering systems, legionella, building management systems, emergency standby generators, lifts, general and special waste, etc.

Main duties of the job

• Ensures planned and reactive maintenance work is completed within designated time spans and meets current legislative requirements; .
• Planning and implementing planned preventative maintenance programmes for all areas of the hospital including patient sensitive areas such as operating theatres, aseptic suites, ITU, HDU & CCU etc. This work also includes the revalidation plant performance against initial design figures.
• Instigation and development of a strategic H&S plan for the control of contractors. This is in conjunction with external H&S Professional i.e. HSE.
• Producing reports for backlog maintenance, site infrastructure upgrades to take into account long term growth and progressive plant degradation from which recommendations are formulated.
• Presenting complex contingency plans to all levels of the Trust prior to the commencement of major changes to service infrastructures or in the event of service failure.
• Communication to and from command centre during implementation of Trust major incident plans.
• Day to day management of operational staff, in regard to allocation of work and technical support. Applying Liverpool Hospitals NHS FT Human Resources policies regarding Managing Absenteeism, Disciplinary, and Grievance etc. Monitoring absence rates to meet the trusts annual target for sickness absence rate.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool Women's delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.

We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests for flexible working on hiring.

Our core value is to 'Be Kind' and we have an ambition to 'Be Brilliant' with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.

The Trust is constantly innovating and evolving it's services to provide the most cutting edge care possible. We have long-term aspirations for the future. https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/about-us/our-future/planning-for-futu...

We are committed to creating a greener Liverpool Women's https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/media/4095/our-green-plan.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

please see what is stated within the above job overview and main job descriptions for the details of this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• degree in electrical mechanical or building related subject of HNC with relevant experience with appropriate extensive experience of man management contract administration or project

Desirable criteria

• recognised professional qualification
• asbestos awareness
• legionella / water systems
• a qualification in building services would be an advantage

Experience

Essential criteria

• qualification or an equivalent level of knowledge in a minimum of 3 authorised responsible or test person roles associated with HTMs
• management of directly employed staff
• management of external contracts
• manual handling

Desirable criteria

• Operational experience within acute Trust
• previous experience in a large acute trust
• undertaken role of authorised person or one or more disciplines
• experience working in an NHS environment and the management of PPMS

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• detailed knowledge of statutory legislation
• able to manage and resolve conflict within the area of responsibility
• able to share expertise with others

Desirable criteria

• management of multisite operations
• evidence of developed leadership skills
• autocard certification and willingness to attend various training

Skills

Essential criteria

• ability to apply good problem solving skills
• enthusiastic and motivated with the with the ability to motivate the team
• computer literate with good keyboard skills
• ability to analyse facts and make decisions
• knowledge in procurement design and specification
• ability to develop client brief to produce feasibility designs and carry approved designs to handover
• ability to provide clear instruction when working under pressure or in an emergency situation

Desirable criteria

• conversant with CDM legislation

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust has a responsibility and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility and is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Trust policy requires the cost of DBS applications be recovered via salary. The amount of £21.50(standard) or £41.50(enhanced) can be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement in post.

The Trust is committed to creating a well-managed,flexible working environment that supports staff & promotes welfare & development. We are 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 operate Zero Tolerance to aggression, violence, bullying and harassment.We will make reasonable adjustments to ensure our recruitment & selection process is accessible to all.Flexible Working applications will be considered.

If you are disabled and have special support needs in applying for a job, attending for an interview or in undertaking any tests as part of a selection process, please contact the Trust's recruitment team on 0151 7064666 and someone from that team will ensure that the recruiting manager is aware of your particular needs.

Please Note:new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.

LWH has a responsibility & is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of children, young people & vulnerable adults & for ensuring that they are protected from harm. Every employee of the Trust has a responsibility & is duty bound always to act in the best interest of a child or adult about whom we may have concerns.

Liverpool Women's Hospital is committed to having a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve. To this end, we particularly welcome applicants from racially minoritised backgrounds, who have a disability, or are members of the Armed Forces, Reservists or Veterans.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Senior Estates Officer (PDF, 520.6KB)
• Recruitment Pack (PDF, 9.7MB)