City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE)
Formed in December 2013, CHoICE is the subsidiary company of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. Working in partnership with the Trust, CHoICE provides a Managed Health Care Facility to facilitate patient care.
CHoICE delivers a range of services including both Hard and Soft FM, and it is the Hard FM element (Estates) that we are seeking to recruit. CHoICE currently delivers services across several premises within South Tyneside and Sunderland. Very much One Team, but geographically based to provide responsive services, we have a vacancy for a Senior Estates Officer (Mechanical Ops & Maintenance), South Tyneside based. The successful applicant will lead and ensure compliance of the mechanical section of the Hard FM team, a team of around 10 employees which is motivated and experienced, and this role offers an exciting opportunity for development and a range of experience.
The Estates team provide a co-ordinated approach in delivering services in-line with all our Statutory requirements and Key Performance Indicators, by which CHoICE's effectiveness is measured and monitored. The workload is varied, challenging and rewarding in equal measures. Health Care premises have complex Building Services, which are managed and maintained to extremely high standards, in order to deliver a suitable facility for providing health care to those same exacting high standards. The satisfaction of supporting healthcare delivery cannot be understated.
Main duties of the job
As Senior Estates Officer (Mechanical), you will be required to lead the in-house mechanical team and specialist contractors. The service provides reactive, planned maintenance & contract works in a busy acute hospital setting. The position's objectives are to ensure that all maintenance works are provided within pre-designated times & costs and provide technical input, to ensure compliance with all statutory regulations and legislation.
You will be responsible for ensuring acceptable standards of quality, productivity and workmanship of work is maintained.
To manage and arrange shutdowns, connections and adaptations to hospital services which facilitate progress on major capital and minor work schemes of a more complex work content. Carrying out estimates for works and working within defined budgets.
You will be based at South Tyneside District Hospital, although you will be required to work at other properties owned or maintained by the Trust as required.
The postholder will be educated to degree level or equivalent in a Building Services related subject and have a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role or working towards degree level or equivalent in a relevant field with relevant experience.
You will participate in the emergency on-call rota as required.
As per HTM compliance, the applicant will be an Authorised Person in several areas, which offers opportunities for training, development and gaining valuable experience.
Job responsibilities
The role will require the post holder to undertake the role of Authorised Person (AP) as defined within Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 00 for multiple engineer services. The responsibility will provide the post holder with key operational responsibilities for ensuring that appropriate engineering services are maintained to current statutory, mandatory and best practice requirements.
The role will also require the individual to have substantial management skills and experience to ensure that external contractors and directly employed labour are managed in the most efficient manner. Furthermore, the role will also require participation in the current CFS shift pattern/system, current on-call rota and undertake overtime when the service needs dictate for which appropriate payments will be made.
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level qualification or equivalent in relevant field,
* OR working towards degree level qualification or equivalent in relevant field supplemented with relevant experience
* Specialist knowledge of mechanical electrical systems acquired through specialist courses and CPD
* Basic Numeracy & Literacy Skills to Level 1 or equivalent
* Membership of a professional body
* Registered with the Engineering Council UK
* Management Qualification/Training
Physical Skills
* Undertake moderate moving and handling activities with the ability Requirement for physical dexterity, hand and eye coordination.
* Perform testing and asset condition surveys using a range of technical and non-technical devices and instruments.
* To sit at workstations for a prolonged period of time then adapt to undertake site surveys or respond to emergency situations.
* May be required to travel, work and manage at all of CFS managed sites
Experience
* Significant mechanical experience of systems typically found within a large Acute NHS Trust
* Experience of undertaking an engineering management role within a large acute hospital or similar industry
* Experience of undertaking a similar role within an NHS environment
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to work to tight deadlines and targets using own initiative where necessary and manage more than one project simultaneously whilst balancing conflicting demands
* Effective staff management and leadership skills with the ability to motivate, encourage and lead a team from diverse profession disciplines
* Good communication skills with the ability to use appropriate techniques to a range of differing audiences
* Flexible in and out of working hours to meet the service needs
* Able to participate in out of hours on-call arrangement as per the agreed Rota
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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