Estates Officer

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Winwick; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Estates Manager to lead the electrical estates team across multiple sites. You will manage planned maintenance, compliance, capital projects, and energy management while ensuring safe systems and statutory requirements.

You will supervise staff and contractors, drive service improvements, oversee budgets, and provide expert Estates advice to senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified in an Electrical related discipline
• Degree in an Estate related subject or equivalent experience
• City and Guilds NVQ 3
• Experience in leading estates teams in a healthcare environment
• Knowledge of HTMs, HBNs and NHS estate standards

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and develop a building services and engineering Planned Preventative Maintenance and Repair system across the Trust.
• Act as authorised person for low voltage (LV) systems and ensure compliance with electrical safety regulations.
• Supervise and monitor performance of delegated staff and contractors.
• Develop and implement energy conservation strategies and manage Building Management Systems.
• Project manage minor capital projects and support business cases for capital schemes.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, safety, infection control and security across estates.

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To operate, maintain and develop a building services and engineering Planned Preventative Maintenance and Repair system across the Trust, continually reviewing and updating all records in response to changing techniques and service developments.

To act as authorised person (AP) for low voltage (LV) systems including all associated duties

To ensure and maintain compliance with the HTM, HBN & Electrical safety Regulations

To supervise and monitor performance of delegated trade staff

Line management responsibility for the divisions directly employed engineering staff, regular contractors and service contractors ensuring effective day-to-day running of the operational estates team.

Responsible for recruitment, induction, appraisal and development for Estates team with responsibility for HR issues i.e. disciplinary, grievance, PACE etc.

To manage the performance of all engineering maintenance works and to monitor and assure the quality of work undertaken by contractors and in-house estates maintenance team.

To develop and implement effective strategies for the conservation of energy and to reduce energy consumption by the Trust by being responsible for managing, monitoring and rectifying faults on the Building Management system. To undertake surveys, develop schedules of work, specifications and contract documentation for all in-house small capital and maintenance projects.

To check the standard of works on engineering projects within the Trust, including the approval of contractors' invoices prior to submission for payment to ensure that value for money has been obtained.

To monitor the existing engineering planned maintenance system to ensure that contractors are complying with all requirements including frequencies, statutory and non-statutory regulations and guidance, health and safety and the trust's policies and procedures.

To provide estimates and advice on potential projects to senior managers to enable them to make budgetary decisions.

To monitor and maintain building and plant surveys from which information is stored on a database to enable forward planning of building maintenance and a fully priced rolling programme.

To project manage minor capital works meetings with consultants, contractors and other professionals to inform and discuss progress of projects to ensure planning and work carried out meets the requirements and specifications.

To ensure that all aspects of support services, control of infection, fire safety etc and security are completed prior to a particular area becoming operational.

Responsible for the security systems throughout the estates which include complex engineering equipment, perimeter intruder detection CCTV, secure entry systems, staff alarm and control room.

To oversee energy electrical and mechanical maintenance and operational works to ensure that all necessary mandatory and statutory regulations are complied with.

To ensure all allocated capital schemes are progressed and delivered on time, to quality and within budget and in compliance with Trust SFI's.

To develop and implement strategies that enhance estate performance, seeking to improve the service user carer experience.

To act as the single point of contact for all estates issues applicable to Maghull Health Park.

Liaising with Directors, senior manager and staff in the development of business cases and in the signing off, of capital schemes following completion and formal hand over.

Providing expert estates advice to Directors and Senior Managers.

Take part in divisional and trust wide meetings and committees as a representative for the department.

Take part in the management and provision of an out of hours emergency on call system.

To implement safe systems of work, ensuring statutory and non statutory compliance i.e. legionnella, maintenance of risk register/estates risks assessments electricity at work act regulations etc.

To act as the custodian of the Trust's physical and financial assets within the designated zone, ensuring investment decisions and the use of the Trust's property portfolio effectively supports the organisations' business activities.

To control, monitor and manage expenditure of the building maintenance and engineering maintenance budgets.

Responsible for ensuring that the testing, validating, certification and registering of all Trust Estates Statutory requirements are carried out either buy in-huse or external contractors so that the Trust complies with its current responsibilities including, gas safety testinf, fixed wire testing, fire alarm maintenance, PAT testing, asbestos and LOLER etc.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professionally qualified in an Electrical related discipline
• Degree in an Estate related subject or equivalent experience
• City and Guilds NVQ 3

Desirable criteria

• Diploma/Certificate in Management
• IOSH/NEBOSH
• Associate, or equivalent membership status, of a recognised professional Institution
• BS7671 Wiring Regulations 18th Edition.
• AP training (HTM or equivalent)

Experience/Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Management experience in the public sector or equivalent experience in the private sector
• Demonstrable ability of leading teams in providing complex multi site operational estates services.
• Demonstrable ability to understand financial management systems and effectively manage significant operational budgets.
• Computer literate with a good working knowledge of information systems and their role in managing the service.
• Ability to analyse complex data.
• Excellent knowledge of health & safety and risk management
• HVAC and wider building services knowledge.
• Knowledge of planned preventative maintenance (PPM), reactive maintenance, and minor works projects
• Operational understanding of Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Understanding of HTMs, HBNs, and NHS estate standards

Desirable criteria

• Significant demonstrable management experience in delivering estate services in a health care environment
• Working knowledge of NHS/public sector financial regimes
• Working knowledge of information systems which support Estate services.
• Understanding of the NHS Controls Assurance framework and experience of managing the standards specific to estate services
• Experience of working with service users and the public in delivery/development of health care services and facilities

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent team member with the ability to maintain objective relationships with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
• Demonstrable ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of building good working relationships with stakeholders including trade unions, professional associations and external agencies
• Use of hand and power tools in relation to electrical and mechanical services
• Use of computers and associated applications
• Use of BMS systems
• Use of CAFM systems
• Use of diagnostic equipment