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Job overview

Come and be part of a great team that delivers NHS Property leasing and commercial landlord responsibilities throughout North Essex & East Suffolk. 

One of the responsibilities of The Property team is to ensure safety and compliant clinical & administrative locations for staff and patients whilst ensuring value for money.

The role would include liaising with landlords to obtain statutory service & PPM records whilst undertaking gap analysis of any Trust assets to ensure service contracts are fit for purpose and cover all our statutory obligations, seeking opportunity to merge contracts and other economies of scale.

Whilst undertaking site audits, condition surveys and maintaining accurate records of occupancy, the successful candidate would be a face of the team and contact point for some maintenance escalation matters therefore good rapport skills and the ability to convey technical information clearly, is required.

We are looking for an competant individual with experience of compliance management or where they have held contractors or alike to account. An awareness of Health Safety and statutory obligations relating to all Hard & Soft FM matters from as well promoted as fire alarm testing to lesser known national cleaning standards; risk levels of water sampling results or the obligations upon the NHS to meet HTM’s.

Main duties of the job

• To provide effective support in liaison with the Property Team and Landlord Management teams to ensure compliance across the sites within the portfolio.  
• Working on both simple and complex estates projects over a wide range of values from inception through to commissioning, ensuring performance and monitoring against those contracts.
• Researching PPM requirements of mechanical plant and systems, undertaking gap analysis and  to ensure all mechanical and wider statutory compliance PPMs are undertaken and raising orders to ensure these are in place.
• Impose good governance practices to ensure evidence exists of such maintenance and PPMs
• Prepare service user briefs for potential projects identifying the user service requirements, objectives to be achieved and standards (HTMs and HBNs) to be met.
• Proactively provide updates on all schemes to the Property Managers and Head of Property undertaking direct tasks as required.

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.   

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