Facilities Maintenance Officer - NW Sector

• Hold responsible for the delivery of delegated projects in the estate and facilities investment programme, including design, obtaining tenders, liaison with consultants and statutory bodies, agreeing standards and ensuring they are meet acceptance standards.
• Line manage all cleaning staff under your direction to include recruitment, training monitoring of work activity, authorising of hours worked and dealing with any performance issues.
• Ensures compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, codes of practice, technical guidance; develops policies in waste disposal, pest control, landscape maintenance, premises cleaning and ensures their implementation by regularly undertake site inspections to complete quality assessments of all matters relating to facilities and maintenance, raising and resolving issues with suppliers.
• Hold regular meetings with Local Group Managers to ensure all items relating to facilities & maintenance are identified and resolved within agreed timeframes.
• Capture and record building data to ensure we hold all relevant information relating to building components and building safety.

Main duties of the job

Be accountable to the Senior Facilities & Maintenance Officer for:

• Exchange specialist information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors, suppliers, statutory agencies, utility companies.
• Able to make judgements across specialist estates and facilities issues taking into account legislation, H&S, conflicting demands with the ability to resolve complex faults.
• Undertake and record monthly audits relating to all facilities and maintenance performance, this includes reviewing contractor invoices are in line with contract arrangement
• Line manage cleaners under your control to ensure the standard and frequency is maintained at all times.
• Collect data in respect of buildings assets and condition.
• Working closely with all colleagues to ensure team objectives are achieved.
• Deliver small projects in relation to improving our sites.
• Working for our organisation

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year. Our strategy 2023-2028 outlines how we plan to achieve this, and is centred upon three missions focused on:

• Our care – delivering outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed.
• Our organisation – being an increasingly inclusive, well-led and highly skilled organisation people are proud to work for.
• Our London – using our unique pan-London position to contribute to improving the health of the capital.

To achieve these three missions we have set ourselves 50 commitments to deliver over the next five years. In developing these ambitious commitments, we have engaged extensively both inside our organisation, with our partners and with our patients, and we have analysed population trends and horizon scanned the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the busiest ambulance Trust in the UK. We are seeking someone who will fit with the Trust values of Caring, Respect and Teamwork.

For further details of main responsibilities, please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications, Accreditations, Education

• Hold specialist works and building or facilities knowledge including legislation to degree level or equivalent, post graduate knowledge through training, experience
• Proven planning and organisational skills
• Ability to deliver deadlines through effective time management skills; including ability to prioritise work and manage distractions and conflicting demands

Experience

• Proven experience on how to plan, organise complex activities, requiring formulation, adjustment within a building and facilities field
• Able to contributes to review and development of estates projects related policies
• Working in dusty and unpleasant conditions

Knowledge and Skills

• Demonstrable experience at managing employees within estates facilities and maintenance operations function
• Knowledge/understanding of statutory and local requirements relevant to estates & facilities management operations
• Able to prepares technical drawings using CAD, use of drawing measurement, surveying tools and equipment
• Able to work at height using surveying equipment