Estates Officer - Mechanical | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare institution in Bristol is seeking an experienced professional to manage compliance and maintenance within its estates and facilities. The role involves ensuring safety, adherence to legislation, and providing a cost-effective environment for healthcare delivery. Ideal candidates will have a background in engineering and maintenance, along with experience in team management. This position offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits, including an industry-leading pension scheme and generous leave provisions.

Benefits

Competitive salary

National and local discount schemes

Industry-leading pension scheme

27+8 days annual leave

Responsibilities

• Be professionally responsible for compliance with various legislative requirements such as asbestos, fire safety, environmental protection, and building regulations.
• Work within the estates and facilities management team to provide a safe, appropriate, and cost-effective environment for effective healthcare delivery.
• Exercise professional judgement across a wide range of estates compliance and maintenance issues.
• Plan and organise a broad range of activities, adjusting plans or strategies as needed.

Job description

Do you have experience of engineering and maintenance? Have you got experience of managing a team? Are you looking for your next step?

This role will work to ensure that the land, buildings, and property are safe and fit for purpose in accordance with statutory legislation codes of practice and Divisional business plans.

You will work to ensure parity of service and compliance and adherence to procedures and policies, including all statutory & non statutory instruments including but not limited to Health Technical Memorandums, Hospital Building Notes and best practice.

Responsibilities

• Be professionally responsible for compliance with various legislative requirements such as asbestos, fire safety, environmental protection and building regulations.
• Work within estates and facilities management team to provide a safe, appropriate and cost effective environment for effective healthcare delivery.
• Exercise professional judgement across a wide range of estates compliance and maintenance issues taking into account legislation, complexity of systems or interactions and the conflicting demands of the service.
• Plan and organise a broad range of activities, adjust plans or strategies. Including planning multi-discipline projects which may run concurrently and be inter related. Projects may include conflicting requirements/solutions and the post holder will assist and make judgements to find the preferred solution.

Benefits

• A competitive starting salary and unsocial enhancements.
• Access to a raft of national and local discount schemes including shopping, holidays and insurance.
• An industry leading pension where your employer pays in 20.6% of your annual salary!
• 27+8 days annual leave per year, paid leave including absence.

About the Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

This advert closes on Sunday 4 Jan 2026