Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Estates Officer
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Job Description
This role is responsible for the management, maintenance, compliance, and development of the Trust's estate infrastructure. Key duties include:
- Overseeing planned maintenance, repairs, and engineering services
- Acting as the Authorised Person for Low Voltage electrical systems
- Ensuring compliance with all statutory, regulatory, and safety requirements
The post holder leads estates staff and contractors, manages budgets and assets, delivers maintenance and minor capital projects, and oversees energy efficiency, security systems, and building management systems. They:
- Monitor service quality and performance
- Provide expert estates advice to senior leaders
- Support strategic planning and business cases
- Act as the primary estates contact for Maghull Health Park
The role also includes:
- Participation in Trust-wide initiatives
- Emergency on-call support
- Driving continuous improvements to estate performance, compliance, and the patient environment
The role serves as the Trust's lead electrical estates specialist, with responsibility for the safe and effective management of electrical services across designated sites. Key duties include:
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- Ensuring statutory compliance and safe systems of work
- Managing in-house maintenance teams and contractors
- Delivering minor capital projects
- Conducting engineering and building condition surveys and audits
The post holder is also responsible for:
- Improving estate performance
- Maintaining a high-quality patient environment
- Engaging regularly with staff, service users, and carers to support continuous service improvement
About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer:
- Specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health
- Specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services
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Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Kevin Ready
- Job Title: Contracts and senior estates project manager
- Email Address: Kevin.ready@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0151 295 3101
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