Estates Operations Officer | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7333345/214-CEN-7333345 |
Summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking a proactive and technically skilled Estates Operations Officer to join our Hard FM team. This pivotal role is responsible for the technical oversight, monitoring, and regular review of all Hard FM PFI contract-related matters, ensuring high-quality service delivery across our three hospital sites.
You will work closely with the Senior Hard FM Estates Manager to drive improvements in service provision, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, legislation, NHS standards, and industry best practices.
Key Responsibilities
• Monitor and audit Hard FM services, including reactive maintenance, grounds and gardens, telecoms, utilities, and general estates.
• Witness testing and routine inspections to ensure systems are maintained effectively.
• Lead on estates services outside the PFI red line, ensuring responsiveness to patient needs.
• Collaborate with PFI partners to uphold Sherwood Forest Hospitals Care Values.
• Support the development and implementation of Estates and Facilities services as outlined in the PFI Project Agreement.
• Drive service improvements through robust monitoring and reporting systems.
Why Join Us? At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, you’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your expertise will make a real difference to our patients and communities.
Apply now to join our team!
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Sep 2025
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