North Bristol NHS Trust
Senior Maintenance Manager – Decontamination Lead

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North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Merger
North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) have merged as of 1st July 2026 to become Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. This creates an exciting future that brings together the best of both organisations. As a single, strong and sustainable organisation, we will not only be able to deliver better outcomes for our patients and fairer care for our population, but it will also provide greater opportunities for our people.
Flexible Working
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
Diversity and Inclusion
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
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Job Overview
As a subject matter expert in your sphere of expertise your main responsibility is to represent and ensure the safety and wellbeing of all staff, patients and visitors using the Trust premises with regards to the Decontamination Services mechanical and electrical environment.
Accountable for planned and reactive maintenance, testing and validation across CSSD/ and Pathology sterile-services decontamination plant and supporting critical utilities, ensuring safe, compliant operation, high uptime and audit-ready documentation in line with the HTM framework and infection-prevention standards, including all statutory and mandatory compliance requirements.
Main Duties of the Job
- To be the lead engineer for the respective discipline (Decontamination) providing advice to the Trust and department both strategically and operationally.
- Carry out detailed servicing on all equipment that aligns with the HTM specific to weekly, monthly, quarterly and Annual requirements.
- To be the line manager for your respective subject matter team covering all aspects of individual and team management.
- To provide technical advice to the maintenance department staff and capital project team, or managers when required.
- To meet with contractors and other service providers to reach technical solutions referring to the Decontamination Lead FM if required.
- To ensure, by developing and undertaking audit, that safety programmes, safe systems of work, access control, permits to work and risk assessment are completed, issued or undertaken as appropriate. To instil in others the need to plan effectively and undertake appropriate risk assessment. To take control and issue management instructions (including the suspension of work) if any deficiencies in safety policies, procedures, assessments or work plans are discovered and such action is warranted.
- To ensure maintenance activity is managed to prevent, risk to the health, safety and wellbeing of persons directly involved or as a consequence of maintenance activity.
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Working for Our Organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of 2.6 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom.
Chaired By Ingrid Barker And Led By Maria Kane As Chief Executive, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Aims To Transform The Way Healthcare Is Delivered Locally With a Clear Focus On Making a Difference For What We Call Our Four Ps
- Better outcomes for our Patients
- More opportunities for our People
- Fairer more consistent care for our Population
- Best Value for Public Purse
Our Vision For Five Years From Now
- Patients will wait less time to be diagnosed and treated, and they will have the same high-quality experience and outcomes, regardless of who they are or where they live.
- We will meet rising demand by maximising the use of our available resources.
- More care will be delivered nearer to patients, in their homes or the community.
- Digital technologies will have transformed the way we work and the way we deliver care.
- Our people will feel engaged, energised and empowered by their work.
- We will be known as a place where people enjoy working, training and building a career.
- Our volume of globally renowned research and innovation will have grown significantly.
- We will contribute to system financial balance
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Educated to Masters equivalent level in building services/healthcare engineering/mechanical engineering or equivalent relevant experience
- Registered with the Engineering Council at Engineering Technician (EngTech) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
- Experience gained as a senior manager of a Decontamination service provider, either in a provider contract or inhouse provision.
- Completion of an accredited Health & Safety Risk Management training course (IOSH Managing Safety or similar) or associated Decontamination standards such as ISO13485 and ISO19001 quality management.
- Experience of creating, reviewing and developing risk assessments, method statements, safe systems of work and permit to work.
- Effective people management skills to lead, develop and motivate teams and individuals.
- To manage and support staff with sensitive and personal circumstances in a professional, fair and consistent manner and in line with Trust policy and procedures.
- Sound project management skills to plan and organise resource effectively, efficiently and economically including coordination of resource and availability of equipment and areas released for maintenance activity.
Person Specification
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters equivalent level or equivalent relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
Essential criteria
- Financial management skills, including assuring best value, assessment of economic repair or replacement
- Experience of computer based control, management and database systems associated with helpline (reactive maintenance) and planned programmes; Creation and manipulation using Microsoft Excel for data analysis.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of Planned Preventative Maintenance programme creation, implementation or operation management


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Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic to learn & develop new ideas and support or suggest new ways of working that may or will improve efficiency, efficacy or customer satisfaction. Enthusiastic to learn of new technologies or processes that may be considered useful at the Trust or NHS.
Joining Us
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Staff Care
The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
Safeguarding
BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
Immigration Act 2016
To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
Sponsorship
If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
Data Collection
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system. By applying for this post, you are agreeing to Bristol NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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Please be aware of scams – unless specified above, we will only communicate with you via @recruit.trac.jobs or nhs.net e-mails and we will never ask you for any payments.
Important
Please note that if you apply for a position with this Trust, you may be contacted via Trac or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your Trac account and email accounts. We may also contact you by texting the mobile number, if provided, on the application form.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
When providing employment reference details, please provide correct work-related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your referee must all be known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.
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