Job vacancy: Energy and Sustainability Manager, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Dartford

Job summary

Main area: Estates
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 252-7083962

Employer: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Darent Valley Hospital
Town: Dartford
Salary: £55,877 - £62,626 per annum inclusive of allowances
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59

Energy and Sustainability Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities:

This role acts as the Trust expert in all matters relating to sustainability, ensuring that the Trust is fully compliant with all elements of legislation and NHSe directives.

Accountable for all elements of utilities from strategic planning and tendering of services to obtain best value for money as well as ensuring utilities are sustainable.

Responsible for Waste Management. This will involve sourcing and implementing the correct receptacle for each waste source and/or finding solutions for limited space in particular areas to ensure the Trust is using the waste contract effectively and complying with the Green Plan.

Accountable for ensuring the Trust is compliant with environmental and waste legislation by identifying obligations and ensuring all relevant departments have processes & procedures in place.

Accountable for developing the Trust’s sustainability Green Plan and ensuring that the Trust are on target for delivering new zero by 2040/45. This includes ensuring that the working group leads and champions are fulfilling agreed objectives and actions.

The role is responsible for ensuring accuracy in respect of provision of data for the ERIC return (Estates Return & Information Collection), ICS/ICB reporting and reporting on carbon reductions as detailed in the Green Plan.

There will also be a requirement to manage reporting on utilities, including collation of meter readings and checking of utility invoices. In addition, there is a requirement to forecast usage and budget requirements. Therefore, the role will need extensive analytical skills.

The post-holder will contribute to a wide range of environmental activities, including behavioural change programmes, sustainability and net zero initiatives, and support the delivery of the Trust’s environmental objectives and relevant commitments with the Green Plans.

Collate, analyse and present waste and environmental performance data / information to a wide range of stakeholders for the purpose of exploring opportunities to improving the Trust’s waste and environmental performance.

There is also a requirement for longer term planning as this role is responsible for reviewing and updating sustainability strategy, amending as legislative requirements or the Trust changes.

The role will need to ensure that the strategy and day to day activity align, engaging management as necessary to reinforce directives.

Responsible for devising and implementing audits across all subject matters and management systems to ensure the Trust is fully compliant. Devise action plans with teams where necessary and oversee to ensure actions are completed within agreed timescales.

Please see attached job description for more information.

Person specification

Education and Training

Essential criteria

Masters degree in one of more subject matter relative to the post (sustainability, environmental, waste) or extensive relevant experience
Evidence of CPD

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Proficient in using MS Project or similar
Knowledge of risk management techniques
Ability to work with people at all levels
Ability to write strategy and reports, pulling on data from various sources
Presentation and training skills
Negotiating skills
Analytical skills
IT skills
Ability to remain focussed under pressure
Ability to prioritise workload
Ability to evidence training and knowledge
Current knowledge of legislation and market trends

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of working in an environmental or sustainability environment either within the public sector of private sector
Project management experience and knowledge gained from managing major projects
Programme management experience and knowledge gained from managing transformation programmes
Training over the course of the career in waste, environmental and sustainability

Desirable criteria

Experience in transitioning teams from on-premises file repositories to cloud-hosted
Previous experience in a similar, senior, position within the NHS or Private sector
Significant experience of Microsoft Power Apps suite including integrations between Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate in a multitenant environment.
Significant experience of Microsoft SharePoint file management best practice and integrations into existing teams

Our staff are our most valuable asset. We are committed to making staff feel appreciated, supported and included in the Trust’s successes. Our mission is to be an outstanding place to work providing the very best care for our patients and excellent career opportunities for our staff. Everything we do is guided by our core values and behaviours, identified by our staff and embedded throughout the organisation.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement

We have the highest CQC rating of all Acute NHS Trusts in Kent and Medway (Good). The CQC highlighted that managers promoted a positive culture that supported, valued staff and created a sense of common purpose based upon shared values.

The Trust is a great place to work, stay, develop a career and enjoy a healthy work life balance. We have made and are delivering on a wide range of commitments to staff; health and wellbeing; equality; diversity and inclusion; access to education and career development. During 2020 we sett up quality councils, driven by our staff to create a culture of shared governance and quality improvement.

We have a strong focus on innovation and improvement. Part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ (GSTT) ‘Healthcare Alliance’ we are introducing new models of care to improve clinical outcomes for patients. Our association with GSTT also gives staff wishing to develop their skills excellent opportunities to work across numerous specialities.

As our local population increases, our services and skills are expanding and adapting to meet demand. We are continuously looking at best practice models to enhance and improve the services we offer.

The Trust provides services at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, for a local population of over 500,000 people.

If you would like to be part of our innovative and forward thinking team putting patients at the centre of all we do, we invite you to #joinourfamily.

The NHS are striving towards “we work flexibly” as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Please note this vacancy may close earlier than stated to aid efficient processing of applications. To ensure your application will be considered please submit it at your earliest convenience. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of the closing date please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.

Please note, that due to the limited number of car parking spaces, car parking permits will be allocated subject to compliance with the Trusts eligibility criteria and availability of spaces. Permit holders are not guaranteed a car parking space.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is a smoke free organisation. To improve public health smoking or vaping is not permitted anywhere on the hospital site.