Employer: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Estates Department
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/11/2024 23:59
Electrical Maintenance Engineer (Estates Manager – Electrical)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Sheffield Children’s Hospital is seeking an experienced Electrically qualified Maintenance Engineer (NHS Job title – Estates Manager – Electrical) to join our busy Estates Maintenance Team. Candidates will be qualified to at least HNC / HND level in Electrical Engineering and have significant supervisory or management experience in a maintenance or installation environment. Applications are welcomed from candidates outside of the NHS who meet the essential criteria. Previous NHS experience or knowledge is not required.
Applicants with good supervisory experience, who are looking to move to the next level, are invited to apply as much as those who already have an established management track record.
Resilience is built into all our building services systems to ensure that we can support our clinical colleagues to deliver a 24/7 service, so this is an interesting and varied role looking after a wide range of specialist as well as more typical building services equipment. Patients are at the heart of everything we do, so if you would like to apply your engineering skills in a caring environment, we look forward to welcoming the right candidate to our committed engineering team.
Main duties of the job
The role includes on-call duties on a roughly 1 week in 6 basis and attracts a generous NHS pay rewards package as follows:
Band 7 AFC Pay scale £46,148 pa rising to £52,809 pa after 5 years NHS experience
On Call payment circa £2,400 pa
Annual leave 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 33 days plus Bank Holidays after 10 years
NHS Pension Scheme (Career average) with Contributory rate of 10%
The department also operates a flexi time policy.
The post holder will be responsible for providing effective, operational estates management services to the Sheffield Children’s Hospital estates portfolio, ensuring that the Trust operates within all relevant regulatory, advisory, compliance, financial and service delivery frameworks.
They shall coordinate the day-to-day planning and delivery of operational and maintenance functions, primarily but not exclusively for engineering, services and buildings. This will involve day-to-day management of the in-house maintenance team and specialist contractors or service providers that the department relies upon to provide a normal hours service and out of hours emergency service.
Working for our organisation
At Sheffield Children’s, our purpose is clear: to provide healthier futures for children and young people. Our three strategic aims are:
* Brilliant Place to work
* Leaders in Children’s Health
We work successfully with local, regional, and national partners to provide physical and mental healthcare across acute and community settings. Many of our clinicians are amongst the best in their field, recognised nationally and internationally for their expertise.
As well as having enormous pride in what we do, we are a friendly, welcoming, and motivated NHS Trust who are guided by our CARE values: Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. Our nearly 4000 colleagues live these values, ensuring kind and compassionate care that makes patients and their families feel safe and at home.
As we approach our 150th anniversary in 2026, we remain committed to enhancing our reputation in children’s health leadership, improving the experiences of both patients and colleagues, and focusing on our communities and population health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Responsible for writing and updating all Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPMs) procedures relating to Estates plant, equipment and buildings. Ensure all PPMs take account of current best practice and HTM, HBN guidance.
Responsible for ensuring that maintenance specifications and contracts provide the same detail and requirements as PPMs.
Contribute to the development and update of the Trust’s Major Incident Plan and ensure the resilience of estates and facilities through the development of business continuity plans.
To be a ‘Responsible Person’ for ensuring best practice in delivering and working to the technical disciplines within the HTMs 01,02,03,05,06.
Support the Senior Estates manager in development and review of the operational service function, highlighting any cost pressures and capacity plan requirements.
Be an authorised signatory for delegated budgets, ordering of supplies/equipment and processing of staff timesheets.
Check and report any inconsistencies with budget and highlight these to the Estates finance Management Accountant and/or line manager.
Support the development and implementation of contingency and business continuity strategies and processes to ensure the smooth running of the service in the event of major disruption/disaster.
Ensure adequate stocks of estates operational related materials, parts and equipment. Ensure non-stock parts are sourced or offsite repairs are completed in a timely manner.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Degree Level, HNC/ HND in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Building services
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development and ongoing learning
* A commitment to undertake further training and qualifications aligned to the job role
* Qualified to master’s degree Level in an Engineering discipline (Electrical).
* Membership of engineering or building professional institution
* Authorised persons status in Estates engineering services
Experience
* Experience in a management position of the operational management of a large Estate, to include building fabric, building services and associated engineering systems and equipment.
* Extensive experience in electrical/mechanical or building services engineering
* Contribution to and implementation of Estates services strategies and action plans, including experience of writing action plans, reports and planning
* Experience in Managing Health & Safety in an Organisational setting
* Achieving best value in procurement of projects and contracts, and the planning and delivery of cost improvement programmes.
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge of key areas of regulatory compliance for health and safety including electricity, asbestos, fire, legionella, falls from height, LOLER
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to overcome barriers to engagement by stakeholders using negotiating and influencing skills
* Benchmarking, market testing and value for money processes and exercises
* In-depth knowledge of decontamination and sterile services processes, ligatures and self-harm risks, medical gases
* Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of NHS Estates management, including CQC outcomes and NHS Premises Assurance Model
* Knowledge of relevant NHS specific guidance associated with Estates and Facilities Infrastructure including HTMs and HBNs
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
If you wish to discuss this role prior to application please contact.
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