Trainee Estates Officer

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Trainee Estates Officer to support the Estates maintenance team. This role involves ensuring adherence to safety regulations, providing engineering support, and participating in on-call rotas. Applicants should have an HND or equivalent in Building Services or relevant engineering discipline, along with 1 year's experience in a similar environment. The position offers extensive development opportunities and benefits, including NHS pension and annual leave of up to 33 days.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Access to staff benefits

Annual leave of up to 33 days

Qualifications

• 1 year's relevant experience in NHS hospital environment or similar.
• Experience of building maintenance and systems.
• Experience with specialist hospital equipment.
• Working knowledge of H&S legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist engineering support to hospital's Estates maintenance team.
• Ensure adherence to Health and Safety control measures.
• Maintain working relationships with non-specialist recipients.
• Conduct Authorised Person duties as trained and qualified.
• Participate in Estates On Call rotas.

Skills

Ability to prioritise own work

Desire and ability to work as part of a team

Good numeracy and literacy skills

Versatile in approach to maintenance services

Judgements on estates issues

Ability to provide expert advice

Computer literate

Ability to work under pressure

Ability to lead and motivate a team

Education

HND/Degree in Building Services, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Masters Qualification in relevant engineering discipline

Associate membership of relevant professional body

Job description

A permanent vacancy has arisen within the Estates & Facilities Directorate for a Trainee Estates Officer to join the Barts Heath NHS Trust. The job is based at Whipps Cross Hospital but may be required to work at other hospitals and health care premises within Barts Health NHS Trust.

Duties cover the full range of Estates engineering services including planned and breakdown maintenance, servicing, and repair of buildings and fixtures work across the hospital estate.Key Responsibilities of the post will include developing the hospitals digital estates information systems and providing specialist support of the hospital's critical security infrastructure systems. The post is designed to develop an ambitious engineering graduate into a potential NHS Estates senior leader of the future whilst building key skills and experience improving the estates systems at the hospital.The basic working week is 37.5 hours, Monday-Friday 08:30 to 16:30. You must however, have the ability and willingness to work flexible hours including overtime and call outs as workload demands, for which additional payment is made. The position is also eligible for the NHS pension scheme along with access to a wide range of staff benefits, and in addition to public bank holidays annual leave of 27 days on appointment rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be employed on a wide range of Estates operational services to provide specialist engineering support to the hospital's Estates maintenance team and gain the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to develop into a future NHS Estates senior leader.

She/he will be responsible for supporting the full breadth of all acute hospital Building services and specialist hospital engineering systems:

• To ensure all Health and Safety Control and Asbestos, COSHH and permit to worksystems are adhered to at all times. Reporting any non-safe practices or faultyequipment which could affect their own safety and that of any employee throughoutthe Trust, or Trust property.
• To follow departmental and the Trust's operating policies and procedures whenundertaking this role.
• Required to work on his/her own initiative unsupervised within the standard operatingprocedures and prioritise the work schedule.
• To maintain good working relationships and communicate effectively, especially onthe routine technical information with the recipients who may not be specialists in thetechnical field.
• The post holder shall hold AP accreditations and perform Authorised Person (AP)duties for which they are suitably experienced, trained, qualified and appointed.
• To participate in the Estates On Call rotas covering various Trust sites as directed.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to HND/Degree level in a Building Services
• Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering discipline, or have equivalent experience.
• Masters Qualification in a relevant engineering discipline
• Associate membership of a relevant professional body administered by the Engineering Council.

Experience

• 1 years' relevant experience of NHS hospital environment or similar establishments
• Experience of building maintenance and systems
• Experience of working on specialist hospital equipment
• Working knowledge of H&S Legislation and hospital specifics (HTM's)

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of H&S Legislation and some knowledge of COSHH

Skills

• Ability to prioritise own work.
• Desire and ability to work as part of a team
• Good Numeracy and literacy skills
• To be versatile in their approach to maintenance services and will have the ability to work on their own initiative as well as an integral part of a team.
• Flexible to multi-skilling and responsive to changes in technology.
• Judgements across wide range of Estates issues taking into account legislation, H&S, conflicting demands, content of expert advice on estates operations matters.
• Ability to provide expert advice to service end users on a wide range of Estates management issues.
• Computer literate. Ability to maximise the use of allocated resources in the achievement of set objectives.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Ability to lead and motivate a team.

Other

• Committed to undertake the personal and development plan as identified or as agreed in the individual appraisal process.
• Ability to deal with all levels of people in and around the trust.
• Ability to lift/push/pull weighs in accordance with the Trust Manual Handling policy
• Full Clean Driving License

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.