Estate Manager

NHS; Salford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Salford seeks an Estate Manager to manage a team within the Estates department, delivering improvements impacting patient care. Key responsibilities include overseeing building services, managing emergencies, and ensuring compliance with UK regulations. Candidates with a passion for excellence and experience in healthcare will thrive in this role. The position offers a competitive benefits package and a commitment to personal development.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working opportunities

Annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in a managerial position in estates and facilities management.
• Evidence of successful projects within budgets and time constraints.
• Track record in estates management/supervisory roles.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for electrical, engineering, and building services.
• Manage emergencies and activate the Trust estates emergency plan.
• Oversee contractors and estates trades staff efficiently.

Skills

Leadership and motivational skills

Ability to work effectively with others

Ability to achieve demanding tasks against deadlines

Education

HNC/HND level qualification

Professional development in EFM disciplines

Job description

Job summary

Based at The Royal Oldham Hospital, as one of our Estate Managers, you will manage a team within the Estates department.

With the opportunity to manage a range of works across the hospital site you will deliver improvements that provide a positive impact on operations affecting patient care.

While the job description does lean into M&E disciplines, if you have a broad range of experience within general buildings services and a solid understanding of UK compliance we are very keen to hear from you.

While we are not restricting our search to candidates within the NHS (National Health Service), a background in healthcare would be advantageous. What is key for us, is an individual with a passion for delivering excellence with great communication skills and experience successfully managing a team.

Main duties of the job

The below is a high level view of the main duties of this role, for more detail please see the job description;

• Provide electrical, engineering and building services leadership.
• Responsible for dealing with all Estate emergencies and for the activation and escalation of the Trust estates emergency plan.
• Take the role of Authorised Person across specific building, electrical and engineering services.
• The efficient/effective management of professional estates trades staff.
• Responsible for the efficient/effective management of contractors.
• Required to have a comprehensive knowledge of estates services.
• Understanding of building, mechanical and electrical engineering services.
• Responsible for the interpretation and implementation of legislation and technical guidance.
• Financial management.
• Risk analysis.
• Receive, interpret and disseminate complex and specialised information from outside agencies.
• Responsibilities for organising team workload.
• Provide technical advice to craftsmen and clients.
• Participate in providing 24-hour emergency cover to the NCA.
• Continually audit, develop, introduce and improve the systems and procedures.
• Maintain accurate, timely and legible records in accordance with Group Policy.
• Compliance mandatory training.
• Ensure all estates records are accurately maintained.
• Provide cover on other Group sites as required to support the estates department.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Person Specification

Registration

Desirable:

• Member of the British Institute of Facilities Management
• Member of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management

Qualifications

Essential:

• Professional/academic qualification at HNC/HND level
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development in EFM disciplines.

Desirable:

• Professional/academic qualification at degree level

Experience

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience in a manager position, ideally in the estates and facilities management sector
• Evidence of successful projects/programmes of work within agreed constraints e.g. budgets, timescales
• Demonstrable track record in estates management/estates supervisory roles with ability to think and work across a range of activities
• Experience of procurement through tendering
• Performance Management and development of staff

Desirable:

• Detailed knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations

Skills

Essential:

• Ability to achieve demanding tasks and objectives against deadlines
• Well-developed leadership and motivational skills
• Ability to work effectively and inclusively with a wide range of people

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.