Project Manager

The Children's Trust; Tadworth; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Children's Trust in Tadworth seeks an Estates & Health & Safety professional to support the Head of Estates in delivering the estate strategy and to manage capital and small works. You will ensure contractor vetting and health & safety compliance across all projects, while maintaining documentation and safeguarding requirements.

The role requires strong organisational skills, excellent stakeholder engagement, and the ability to coordinate across a large, diverse workforce to deliver safe,

Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex environment with a large, diverse workforce.
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong organisational skills and high attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support the Head of Estates and Health & Safety in delivering the estate's strategy outputs.
• Understand and determine project scope and objectives, developing specifications, cost estimates and timescales for delivery.
• Prioritise projects according to organisational priorities, availability of funds and accessibility to work areas, ensuring stakeholders are included.
• Manage capital works and small works in accordance with the capital project process.
• Measure project performance/outcomes using appropriate tools and define milestones with key stakeholders.
• Undertake other duties within your skills as the organisation may require.
• Manage all moves, adds and changes to all areas of the Trust.
• Ensure all contractors are vetted, inducted and monitored per contractor management procedures.
• Verify contractor competence, insurance, training and statutory documentation prior to commencement of works.
• Monitor contractor performance and address health and safety non-conformances.
• Ensure contractors comply with safeguarding requirements, site rules and supervision when children are present.
• Promote a positive health and safety culture across all projects and estates activities.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety, fire, environmental and statutory requirements.
• Support CDM Regulations and organisational project governance processes.
• Review and approve contractor risk assessments, method statements and permits to work as required.
• Monitor site inspections to ensure safe delivery of works.
• Ensure projects do not adversely affect safety, wellbeing or safeguarding of children, families, visitors or staff.
• Maintain project risk registers and escalated significant risks through governance structures.
• Support incident investigation and implementation of corrective actions.
• Ensure all project documentation, certificates, health and safety files and compliance records are accurately maintained.
• Adheres to all Health and Safety guidelines, principles, and regulations and The Children's Trust policies.

Job description

Role Requirements

• Support the Head of Estates and Health & Safety in the delivery of the estate's strategy outputs.
• Understand and determine project scope and objectives, ascertaining technical user requirements to develop specifications, cost estimates and timescales for delivery.
• Prioritise projects according to organisational priorities, availability of funds and accessibility to work areas, ensuring that relevant stakeholders are included within discussions.
• Manage capital works and small works in accordance with the capital project process.
• Measure project performance / outcomes using appropriate tools and techniques, working with key stakeholders to define project outcomes and milestones.
• To undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time.
• To manage all moves, adds and changes to all areas of the Trust.
• Ensure all contractors are appropriately vetted, inducted and monitored in accordance with organisational contractor management procedures.
• Verify contractor competence, insurance, training and statutory documentation prior to commencement of works.
• Monitor contractor performance and address health and safety non-conformances.
• Ensure contractors comply with safeguarding requirements, site rules and supervision arrangements when working in areas occupied by children and young people.
• Promote a positive health and safety culture across all projects and estates activities.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant health, safety, fire, environmental and statutory requirements.
• Support compliance with CDM Regulations and organisational project governance processes.
• Review and approve contractor risk assessments, method statements and permits to work as required.
• Monitor contractor performance and undertake site inspections to ensure safe delivery of works.
• Ensure projects do not adversely affect the safety, wellbeing or safeguarding of children, families, visitors or staff.
• Maintain project risk registers and escalated significant risks through appropriate governance structures.
• Support incident investigation and implementation of corrective actions
• Ensure all project documentation, certificates, health and safety files and compliance records are accurately maintained.
• Adheres to all Health and Safety guidelines, principles, and regulations to perform your role and comply with The Children's Trust policies and procedures.

With experience of working in a complex environment, across a large and diverse workforce, you will be exceptionally organised with a high-level of attention to detail. You will naturally possess excellent inter-personal skills, and an ability to consult and positively engage with key stakeholders across the organisation.

About the Children's Trust

The Children's Trust is the UK's leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment. We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service. Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, Car Scheme (subject to eligibility), subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher's pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment. As a charity organisation independent of the NHS, we do not follow Agenda for Change terms and conditions. Consequently, we are unable to take into account NHS incremental dates or continuous service for salary, annual leave, or related entitlements such as absence pay at the point of recruitment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children's Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children's Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.