Estates Officer

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Winwick; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites an Estates Lead to oversee the management, maintenance, compliance and development of our estate infrastructure across designated sites. The role drives planned maintenance, building services, energy systems, and minor capital projects while ensuring safe working practices and high-quality patient environments.

The post holder leads estates staff and contractors, manages budgets and assets, supports strategic planning and service improvement, and acts as

Responsibilities

• Oversee planned maintenance, repairs and engineering services across Trust sites.
• Ensure statutory compliance and safe systems of work for estate infrastructure.

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; and 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, and act as the primary estates contact for Maghull Health Park. The role also includes participation in Trust-wide initiatives, emergency on-call support, and 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 ensuring statutory compliance and safe systems of work, managing in-house maintenance teams and contractors, delivering minor capital projects, and conducting engineering and building condition surveys and audits. The post holder is also responsible for improving estate performance, maintaining a high-quality patient environment, and engaging regularly with staff, service users, and carers to support continuous service improvement.

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 and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. 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 organisational 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.