Estates Manager - Estates Department B7

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

• Hours : 37 hours per week
• Shift pattern : Monday to Thursday - 09:00 to 17:00, Friday - 09:00 to 16:30
• This post is permanent
• This post may close early to the volume of response. Please submit your application form as soon as possible.  
  
  

Gartnavel General Hospital Estates Department are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, resilient and hardworking Mechanical bias Estates Manager to join the team to meet the operational and where required strategic objectives of the service within the site also associated health centres and Clinics. Provide technical expertise when required including operating and maintaining safe and efficient systems of work for all engineering and building related issues. Ensure compliance of service within agreed statutory, mandatory, safety, environmental, quality standards, policies and procedures and providing a safe working environment for patients, staff and visitors.

Implement Estates Maintenance, work to NHS GG&C Health and Safety and SHTM Policies and Procedures. Assist the supervisors to organise and manage on a day-to-day basis the work load and priorities of the staff. Hours of work are Monday to Thursday 09.00-17.00 hrs, Friday 09.00hrs-16.30hrs and applicants will participate with on-call duties as part of the on-call team to ensure that emergency repairs occurring out of normal hours are attended to as per the current local agreement.

Designated individuals will require to undertake training to be certified as an Authorised Person attending specialist and refresher training as required to undertake the duties of the post.

It is a prerequisite that applicants must have undertaken an apprenticeship in an engineering or building related core trade, qualified to Degree level in either an Engineering or Building Discipline and are willing to undertake further training in non-core skills across all service requirements. We are committed to the delivery of outstanding care for our patients.

The successful candidate will need to share this commitment and demonstrate our values while undertaking their duties in this role. This job role includes site responsibility for estates management issues in and out with normal working hours of operation as part of a 24/7 maintenance team providing operational maintenance & emergency response for all building services (e.g. electrical, mechanical & building fabric) within the Hospital Campus. This includes working on HV/LV, MGPS, Ventilation and Water Systems all managed and controlled under formal safe systems of work as per operational policy & procedure. The successful candidate will manage a team of Coordinating Supervisors, Multi Skilled Technicians, Maintenance Assistants and a variety of specialised contractors on a day to day basis.

Informal Contact : Hugh McCartan, 07773 052 124, [email protected]

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