Facilities & Estates Manager

Responsibilities

The role holder’s responsibilities include overseeing all operational estates management across the Trust’s two sites, with professional oversight for:

• Fire Safety management
• Health & Safety (non-clinical)
• Asbestos management and control
• Water Hygiene (including Legionella and Pseudomonas control)
• Building, Electrical & Mechanical services (including piped medical gas)
• Financial management of building and engineering budgets, including:
  • Control of minor works and Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts
  • Management of staff, external consultants, and contractors’ activities

Special Duties

The role requires the post holder to act as one of the following Trust Authorised Persons:

• High Voltage Electricity
• Low Voltage Electricity
• Piped Medical Gases

Additionally, duties include:

• Acting as the Trust Responsible Officer for Legionella Prevention and Control
• Availability to respond to emergencies, including outside normal working hours where necessary

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Estates function to optimise use of owned/leased buildings, plant, and land while delivering customer-focused maintenance services.
• Plan, direct, and control maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to ensure statutory compliance and performance standards for:
  • Building services
  • Plant
  • Equipment
  • Structures and fabric
• Manage Estates Department sections, including building and engineering teams.
• Conduct systematic inspections of mechanical, electrical, and related services to identify:
  • Maintenance needs
  • Replacement requirements
  • Items underperforming below design/acceptable levels
• Enforce remedial action for defects during inspections.
• Develop and manage an out-of-hours maintenance and emergency repair service, ensuring:
  • Effective ‘on-call’ systems
  • Appropriate response times
  • Suitable escalation protocols
• Align with the Trust’s major incident/business continuity policies and plans.