Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £28,860 – £31,671 Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a Mental Health Authority covering Surrey and North Hampshire.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to help shape the Facilities Services within the Property Directorate for the future.
Reporting to the Facilities Manager you will oversee the safety, quality and maintenance of designated buildings ensuring that these properties are to standard, safe and compliant. Recommending and coordinating improvements to the property as needed to ensure a safe, functional, and appealing space. To achieve this, you will need to be the focal point for several streams of work including outsourced soft and hard facilities management contracts, improvement initiatives, compliance obligations.
Main duties of the job
To act as building custodian.
Responsibility for the supervision of the day-to-day operational facilities management across several sites including property maintenance, grounds and gardens, compliance, minor works, building management, cleaning, waste management, pest control, parking, security, post and service help desk.
Provide a visible on-site presence and the first point of contact for building users either via telephone or in person, regarding maintenance issues, complaints, emergencies etc. assisting where appropriate or referring to the Facilities Manager.
Undertake system and compliance testing across sites to include fire alarms, fire extinguishers, water flushing and temperatures.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
“Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.”
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- An appropriate qualification in facilities management or property management or demonstrable experience.
- IoSH Managing Safely
- UK driving license
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of HTM for estates and Facilities management
- L8 water management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have a minimum of two years’ experience in a facilities management function.
- Experience of managing both outsourced and directly employed staff to provide an integrated service and seamless customer experience.
- Experience of bringing a range of services and delivery structures together to deliver a seamless customer experience.
- Work independently.
- Staff development experience.
- Good communication skills with ability to communicate at different levels.
Desirable criteria
- Line management experience.
- Working in the NHS.
- Experience Working within an inpatient service preferable on a mental health service.
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
