Trainee Estates Officer | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 22 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £44,485 - £52,521 Per Annum Inc |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E11 1NR |
| Cwmni: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7697061/259-7661633WXH-A |
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A permanent vacancy has arisen within the Estates & Facilities Directorate for a Trainee Estates Officer to join the Barts Heath NHS Trust. The job is based at Whipps Cross Hospital but may be required to work at other hospitals and health care premises within Barts Health NHS Trust.
Duties cover the full range of Estates engineering services including planned and breakdown maintenance, servicing, and repair of buildings and fixtures work across the hospital estate.
Key Responsibilities of the post will include developing the hospitals digital estates information systems and providing specialist support of the hospital’s critical security infrastructure systems. The post is designed to develop an ambitious engineering graduate into a potential NHS Estates senior leader of the future whilst building key skills and experience improving the estates systems at the hospital.
The basic working week is 37.5 hours, Monday-Friday 08:30 to 16:30. You must however, have the ability and willingness to work flexible hours including overtime and call outs as workload demands, for which additional payment is made. The position is also eligible for the NHS pension scheme along with access to a wide range of staff benefits, and in addition to public bank holidays annual leave of 27 days on appointment rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
The post-holder will be employed on a wide range of Estates operational services to provide specialist engineering support to the hospital’s Estates maintenance team and gain the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to develop into a future NHS Estates senior leader.
She/he will be responsible for supporting the full breadth of all acute hospital Building services and specialist hospital engineering systems:
• To ensure all Health and Safety Control and Asbestos, COSHH and permit to work
systems are adhered to at all times. Reporting any non-safe practices or faulty
equipment which could affect their own safety and that of any employee throughout
the Trust, or Trust property.
• To follow departmental and the Trust’s operating policies and procedures when
undertaking this role.
• Required to work on his/her own initiative unsupervised within the standard operating
procedures and prioritise the work schedule.
• To maintain good working relationships and communicate effectively, especially on
the routine technical information with the recipients who may not be specialists in the
technical field.
• The post holder shall hold AP accreditations and perform Authorised Person (AP)
duties for which they are suitably experienced, trained, qualified and appointed
• To participate in the Estates On Call rotas covering various Trust sites as directed.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Monday 5 Jan 2026