Estates Team Leader - Building | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 per annum and Recruitment & Retention premium |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 February 2025 |
| Location: | Steveange, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6800258/361-6800258 |
Summary
We are recruiting for an Estates Team Leader who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will provide technical support and advise for the maintenance of equipment, building fabric and utility services for East and North Herts NHS Trust.
You will lead a team of skilled craft and semi-skilled staff and take the day-to-day supervisory management responsibility for the team and estates contractors.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
To provide and receive complex information requiring tact or persuasive skills; provide and receive complex or sensitive information.
To be able to work to a range of work procedures and practices majority non-routine.
Plan and organise complex activities or programmes requiring formulation, adjustment Plans maintenance and upgrading programmes, plans and adjusts staffing levels.
To lead with the day-to-day management of maintenance staff and contractors
Understand the working, layout and operation of Healthcare Building Services
To quality check a proportion of completed jobs on a regular basis and to liaise with customers to ensure customer satisfaction with service.
Must be responsible for ordering engineering spares, materials and equipment needed to undertake the works.
To provide estimates and quotes for minor engineering and building works
To maintain personnel records of staff and to include annual leave requests and absence and lateness monitoring.
To be willing learn new techniques and undertake training.
To complete data entry
To undertake surveys or audits, as necessary to own work Completes e.g., staff surveys.
To work within broad occupational parameters, manages areas of maintenance work.
Carry out frequent light effort for several short periods; occasional/ frequent moderate effort several short periods Climbing, lifting equipment.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025