Band 6 Estates Officer - Bath

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Bath; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is seeking an Estates Officer to help deliver safe, compliant estates services across its operations. Based primarily at Bath NHS House, the role may be deployed across the Trust to support maintenance, projects and migliorment initiatives.

You will work with clinical and corporate teams, contractors and external partners to meet statutory health and safety requirements and best practice standards, contributing to sustainability and

Responsibilities

• Oversee contractor performance and ensure value-for-money estates services.
• Support delivery of maintenance, capital projects and estates initiatives.
• Monitor estates compliance, performance data, and health and safety obligations.
• Act as Responsible Person for designated technical compliance areas.
• Collaborate with staff, managers and external partners to deliver safe, effective estates services.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Estates Officer to support the delivery of safe, compliant, and high-quality estates services across the Trust. This varied and rewarding role will involve overseeing contractor performance, supporting maintenance and capital projects, monitoring estates compliance and performance, and ensuring the Trust meets its statutory, regulatory, and health and safety obligations.

Working closely with clinical and corporate colleagues, service managers, contractors, and external partners, you will contribute to estates improvement initiatives, sustainability objectives, and the development of environments that support high-quality mental health care. You will also play a key role in designated estates compliance areas, helping to ensure services are delivered in line with legislative requirements, Health Technical Memoranda, and best practice standards.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated estates professional to make a meaningful contribution to the Trust's operational and strategic objectives, ensuring the estate remains safe, effective, sustainable, and fit for purpose for patients, staff, and visitors.

Please note: The base for this role is Bath NHS House but the postholder could be deployed anywhere in the Trust.

The post is responsible for supporting the management and delivery of the Trust’s Estates services, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, health and safety standards, and Trust objectives. Key duties include overseeing contractor performance, acting as a Responsible Person for designated technical compliance areas, supporting capital and maintenance projects, developing estates initiatives, monitoring estates performance and compliance data, contributing to sustainability and energy efficiency objectives, and working closely with staff, service managers and external partners to ensure safe, effective and value-for-money estates services across the Trust.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen Robbins Job title: Estates Officer Email address: [e-mail]