Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Whilst not exhaustive, the following duties represent an indication of the key duties and responsibilities expected of the post holder.

Energy and Environment
• Responsible for development and implementation of Energy and sustainability policy
• Responsible for Energy and Utility budgets
• Trust lead on matters relating to Energy and Utility management
• Management of energy and utility contracts and accounts
• Use of ‘Key Performance Indicators’ to demonstrate energy performance on a monthly basis
• Working with staff and management at all levels to develop a carbon reduction strategy within the Trust
• Use of BMS and other systems to ensure optimum energy use and produce recommendations to Estates Manager on changes required
• The post holder is the nominated person for CHPQA and Climate Change Levy exemption application.
• Research to identify and apply for funding opportunities
• Delivery of NHS energy saving targets and CO2 targets
• Research and Evaluation of new technologies
• Forecast budget outturn to identify ‘Spend to Save’ available funding and demonstrate business case for adequate provision of funds
• Development of business cases for the implementation of CO2 and energy reduction projects alongside implementation of energy management schemes
• Monitoring and targeting of all energy and utilities
• Use of benchmarking to identify, and where possible adopt, best practice
• Working with capital project managers and maintenance staff to ensure energy conservation is appropriately incorporated within engineering and construction schemes
• Influencing procurement to improve sustainability
• Energy surveys as required to meet statutory requirements throughout the Trust

Sustainability
• Lead, advise and advocate sustainable practice across Atlas and the Trust estate. Developing and implementing sustainability strategies and programmes.
• Support the client in the delivery of the Green plan.
• Integrate sustainability goals into business processes by leading the Atlas sustainability plan and provide evidence of delivery through updating the sustainability dashboard.
• Organise the training and upskilling of Atlas employees on energy saving and sustainability issues
• Ensure the Trust sustainability steering group is adequately represented on behalf of Atlas.
• Grown the relationship between the Atlas and the Trust green leads.
• Own, lead and move forward the Sustainability Action plan using the agreed SDAT (Sustainable Development Assessment Tool).
• Lead and organise the Atlas Sustainability Group ensuring action plans are lead and progressed.
• Ensure relevant initiatives are identified to deliver on the Atlas sustainability and support the Green Plan and they are costed within the sustainability budget.

Environmental and Energy Compliance
• Monitor compliance with environmental and social standards
• Identification of statutory and NHS standards applicable to Estates function
• Working with Estates staff and other stakeholders ensure policies, procedures and systems of evidencing compliance are in place
• Risk rating of any non-compliance and, with responsible manager, development and monitoring of action plans relating to Estates and sustainability governance
• Use of IT systems to collect, report, and monitor compliance evidence

Sustainability and Energy Reporting and Data management
• Prepare sustainability reports (reporting) and ensure Atlas has quality data
• Collection and validation of data for loading on to ERIC and similar database
• Generation of reports on request from data stored
• Use of data to assist Finance department to re-charge site overheads including energy and utilities to end users.
• Structure of data stored