Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Grade E
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 166-DSFS-6796568
- Employer
- Derbyshire Support Facilities Services
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- DSfs Ltd - Chesterfield Royal Hospital
- Town
- Chesterfield
- Salary
- £35,566 - £39,447 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Officer Mechanical
Grade E
Job overview
DSFS requires a highly motivated Estates Officer (Mechanical) who will be based within the estates department at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. The role will work within a team of Estates Officers and the team will be contribute towards managing safe systems of work for the complete range of mechanical disciplines - Water, Ventilation, Medical Gas, Pressure Systems, Natural Gas & Boiler House Management.
The role would be required to participate in any future estates on-call manager rota. This would attract additional payments on top of the stated salary range. There will be regular requirements to work outside the normal estates hours (08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Friday) to manage service isolations to facilitate capital projects and hospital operations work and so a flexible approach to working hours is required.
The post-holder will be responsible for ensuring the department meets all statutory requirements with regards to management of the above safe systems of work and can evidence that if requested.
The role will require occasional travel to our customers based outside of Chesterfield Royal Hospital, such as the community clinics that we manage for Royal Primary Care.
Main duties of the job
Managing defined areas of responsibility within mechanical disciplines as determined by the line manager, ensuring that we operate safe systems of work in accordance with HTMs and relevant statutory documents for all mechanical disciplines.
Being appointed and acting as an Authorised Person for the site for multiple mechanical disciplines, including Lead Authorised Person roles in line with previous experience and training.
Providing AP support and engineering advice to Capital Projects Managers, including isolations where appropriate.
Supporting the Senior Estates Officer in dealing promptly with actions identified in meetings, Authorising Engineer audits and internal audits as appropriate.
Ensuring PPMs for all mechanical disciplines are kept up to date in MICAD and Zetasafe.
Producing governance reports to demonstrate full compliance with HTM documents and presenting them at Technical Advisory and Safety Group meetings as appropriate.
Ensuring the online file repositories for mechanical specialisms remain tidy and organised and that all relevant documents are filed in a logical manner and easy to find.
Managing specialist contractors and estates team members in accordance with relevant policies, specifications, HTMs and regulations.
Providing training to workshop staff as required.
Working for our organisation
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.
DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.
Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered
Please see below link for the DSFS website.
DSFS - Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Limited | DSFS
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments section on this page. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are, along with the criteria that are required for the role
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree in a Building Services Engineering (or equivalent qualification or experience).
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- IOSH.
- In date training for Authorised Person roles.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Technical estates management experience within an acute NHS trust or similar complex organisation such as the MOD.
- Evidence of setting up electronic reporting systems and processes to simplify the process of providing assurance to Safety Group meetings.
- Experience of managing a wide range of estates issues around procurement, contractors, planning, quality standards, governance and H&S matters.
- Proven track record of managing risk and prioritising limited funding accordingly.
Desirable criteria
- Previously appointed and has already acted as an Authorised Person for mechanical disciplines
- Experience of delivering training to a workshop team.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to apply strong technical knowledge to make improvements to the estates department and mentor team members as required.
- Good knowledge of CAFM systems (MICAD) and able to analyse complex data and make informed decisions from it.
- Fully conversant with statutory requirements that apply within an estates department and able to reference where to find said information.
- Excellent IT skills, able to create complex Excel, Word and Powerpoint documents and produce quality reports as required
Desirable criteria
- A recognised computer skills course.
- Knowledge of Building Management Systems.
- Able to use Computer Aided Design Software
- Demonstratable project management skills
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic, highly motivated and able to determine priorities and achieve them using initiative and with minimal external input.
- High standard of written and spoken English
- Able to communicate effectively with a wide-ranging audience, particularly able to explain technical issues without using jargon
- Effective negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Committed to continuous improvement and learning to bridge skill gaps
- Able to continuously appraise situations and ‘challenge the norm’, creating new ideas in the process
- Able to operate with high integrity in the work environment
- Flexible and able to adapt to change quickly.
- Able to use empathy and tact plus effective listening skills to resolve occasional difficult situations with staff and customers
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- brian steele
- Job title
- Senior Mechanical Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01246 513301
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