Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 427-6910313
- Employer
- Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Junior Estates Officer (Operations)
Band 5
Job overview
Join us and play a vital role in maintaining high standards across our healthcare environment, ensuring optimal performance and safety for all of our patients, visitors and staff.
As a Junior Estates Officer at the Royal United Hospitals Bath, you will work closely with the Estates Officers ensuring that our trade staff carry out planned and reactive activity in a timely manner, meeting both high-performance standards and compliance requirements.
You will also assist in managing contractors engaged in estates related tasks. Your expertise will be essential in managing backlog maintenance, planned maintenance programmes, and asset registers.
Additionally, you will play a key role in inspecting planned and reactive maintenance works to continuously improve standards of work and meet the service level agreement targets, whilst building strong working relationships within the organisation.
This role presents an exciting opportunity to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and leadership behaviours to progress onto a Estates Officer role in the future.
Main duties of the job
This role involves providing local support for operational services, focusing on monitoring statutory compliance, ensuring safe work practices, and facilitating minor capital works. The officer will also assist in managing contractors engaged in estates related tasks.
- Implement and monitor safe work practices for all estates and facilities contractors
- Ensure statutory compliance throughout the Trust
- Coordinate works with contractors and in-house staff to ensure timely completion of planned and reactive activities
- Monitor and improve performance in accordance to the existing service level agreement
- Inspect planned and reactive maintenance works to uphold quality standards and compliance
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are proud to be in the top 20 best hospitals to work for in the country.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description in section "documents". They contain all the details of the job description and the main responsibilities for the role
Person specification
Qualifications & training
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of a full range of trade procedures acquired through a 4 year accredited training course, level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent plus relevant or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a hospital environment or similar
- Educated to degree level in a related discipline or equivalent qualification and experience
- Project management qualification
- Recognised Health and safety qualification
Specific skills
Essential criteria
- Confident communicator, capable of liaising at a technical level with external consultants and non-technical internal clients/customers
- Ability to lead and positively negotiate with and influence others
- Change management skills
- Highly organised and ability to prioritise tasks
- Able to accommodate frequent interruptions/disruption and recover concentration
- Able to work independently and exercise a high degree of professional judgement
- Willingness to develop additional skills to assist the Trust.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to carry out inspections and testing of various estates related systems, e.g. Water, electrical, ventilation, medical gases, etc
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of estates functions within a healthcare environment
- Experience of reviewing and updating Trust policy and procedure documentation, including safe systems of work
- Knowledge of risk management including reviewing contractor risk assessment and method statements
- Understanding of confidentiality and Information Governance
- Computer literate and fluent with all Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completing estates related projects within a healthcare environment
- Experience of working in a hospital environment or similar
- Competent person status for various estates related functions, e.g. Water, electrical, ventilation, medical gases, etc.
- Knowledgeable of improvement methodology: lean, 6 sigma, improving together
Values
Essential criteria
- Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
- Willing to learn, open to change
- Team player
- Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Belen Garcia
- Job title
- Senior Estates Officer (Operations)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825230742
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