Asset Manager

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a full-time Asset Manager to join its Estates Team in Oxford. The role involves managing the asset management program, ensuring compliance with industry standards, and promoting best practices for asset lifecycle planning. Candidates should possess strong problem-solving skills and effective communication abilities. This role offers opportunities for significant career progression within the NHS framework.

Benefits

Excellent opportunities for career progression

27 days annual leave, rising to 33

NHS Discount

Competitive pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of asset management practices.
• Experience maintaining statutory compliance in asset management.
• Ability to develop and implement an asset lifecycle program.

Responsibilities

• Schedule and manage compliance requirements for all Estates.
• Update asset registers in the CAFM system.
• Monitor and analyze asset performance metrics.
• Develop life cycle asset management schedules.
• Identify under/over-maintained assets using call data.

Skills

Asset management

Problem-solving

Communication

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for a full-time Asset Manager to join our Estates Team. This pivotal role will see you managing the Trust’s asset management programme, ensuring buildings, infrastructure and equipment are not only maintained to the highest standards but also future-ready through smart lifecycle planning.

You'll lead and maintain the Trust's asset management program ensuring assets are maintained to statutory and industry best practice standards, ensuring a well maintained, safe and secure environment for the Trusts patients, staff, and visitors. You'll ensure all buildings, plant & infrastructure are maintained safely and cost effectively within agreed statutory requirements, in accordance with NHS and the Trust’s policies and procedures.

We’re looking for someone who thrives on problem-solving, can communicate confidently with colleagues and contractors, and is motivated to innovate. You'll need to have a detailed understanding of asset management, tagging, logging and maintaining trust assets as well as developing and implementing an asset lifecycle program, to ensure all assets are being replaced appropriately.

If you want to make a real impact by safeguarding the places where care happens, we would love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the testing, validating, certification and registering of all the Trusts Estates Statutory Compliance requirements are scheduled and undertaken by either the in-house team, PFI service providers or qualified sub-contractors to ensure the Trust complies with its responsibilities; including but not limited to: Water safety, electrical work, lifting equipment, asbestos, PAT testing, fixed wiring, constructure design and management, permits to work, health and safety, electrical and mechanical operational management, fire detection and suppression systems, ventilation and air conditioning, generator testing, security systems.
• Ensure that the asset registers uploaded into the CAFM system are up to date through the management of asset validation surveys
• Monitor and analyse asset performance, including utilisation, maintenance costs and downtime.
• Provide regular reports and updates on asset management activities to senior management.
• Develop a life cycle asset management program and produce a schedule to include all assets, life cycle information and estimated cost for replacement.
• Assist the E&F senior management in identifying assets which could be under or over- maintained on planned maintenance by analysing reactive call data.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and best practice relating to asset management

Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”

Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Adea Celestino Job title: Compliance Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07795824966

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.