Estates Officer | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Liverpool is seeking an Estates Officer to provide technical and administrative support in the Estates Engineering department. The role involves supervising maintenance teams, ensuring efficient resource utilization, and fostering a positive safety culture. Ideal candidates will have experience in managing maintenance operations and resolving complex faults in building services. This full-time position requires a commitment to excellence in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced in supervising maintenance staff and trades.
• Effective planning and resource management skills.
• Ability to resolve complex faults on building systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and technical support to the Estate Maintenance Department.
• Supervise multi-skilled maintenance staff and apprentices.
• Plan and utilize resources efficiently.
• Monitor performance and standards of work completed.
• Supervise maintenance and minor works activities.

Skills

Supervision of operation and management

Ability to work effectively individually and as part of a team

Experience with managing specialist contractors

Commitment to health and safety

Job description

This post is open to employees of the five LAASP organisations. By proceeding, you are confirming that you are a current employee of The Clatterbridge Centre, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool Women’s Hospital or The Walton Centre.

We are seeking to recruit a suitably experienced Estates Officer at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, based at the Royal Liverpool Hospital site.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Trust's Estates Engineering department. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate commitment, enthusiasm and professionalism, working within a fast‑paced healthcare environment. We are looking for a self‑starter who can work effectively both individually and as part of a team.

You will be experienced in the supervision of operation and management within a large organisation, managing specialist contractors along with directly employed staff.

The permanent position is contracted to 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday; however you will be required to join our out of hours on‑call service. Overtime and on‑call payments will be made in addition.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 November 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single‑site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient and effective administrative and technical support to the Estate Maintenance Department.
• Supervise and co‑ordinate a group of multi‑skilled maintenance staff and other trades, including maintenance assistants and apprentices.
• Plan and use labour and financial resources effectively and efficiently.
• Engender a positive culture within the workforce with regard to health and safety, manual handling, permits to work and risk assessments.
• Monitor performance, standards and audit completed works carried out by directly employed staff, agency labour and contractors.
• Supervise both maintenance and/or minor works schemes and activities.
• Allocate labour to the Works and Estate Response Desk, planned preventive maintenance and/or minor works schemes to achieve agreed response times, and monitor maintenance and statutory programmes being completed and minor works schemes meeting agreed deadlines.
• Resolve complex faults on all types of building services systems and equipment.

This advert closes on Monday 15 December 2025.