Senior Sustainability Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are recruiting for a Sustainability Lead to act as the Trust's professional adviser on all Sustainability & Waste matters at Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust. Along with implementation lead for all matters under this remit including taking a project lead role in Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service as this is now in legislation, through the Health and Care Act 2022.

Ownership of Merseycare Trust Green Plan, and embedding this in day-to-day trust business. To provide professional leadership on environmental statutory compliance, Waste energy/utility procurement, technical advice and guidance, energy/utility monitoring and reduction programmes, project management, reporting, governance, partnership working, including functions not directly under E&F direct control such as supply chain activity and where appropriate, wider integration with STP and national strategies.

The Head of Sustainability will be the Trust lead specialist with an overall responsibility to develop and embed sustainability principles within the organisation.

[...] [...] to promote sustainability at all levels of the organisation and with external partners.

[...] sustainability action plan,monitoring its’ progress against the targets and objectives set. The postholder will develop plan to assist in securing funding where available and deemed necessary for the implementation of Energy and Carbon saving initiatives.

Responsibilities also require the development and implementation of appropriate auditing, monitoring [...] aspects of the role.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

1. Lead the development and maintenance of the Trust’s Green Plan and associated action plans and targets.
2. Develop systems and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and ensure adoption of these procedures across the Trust.Audit and review relevant procedures.
3. [...] embedded and delivered in capital projects and associated enabling works.
4. Support relevant environmental consultants as required in relation to the redevelopment and enabling works projects, e.g., BREEAM.
5. Review Trustsustainabledevelopment policies at required frequencies.Align with GreenerNHS, local and NHS England priorities including social value, models of care, health and wellbeing andadaptation.
6. ReviewallTrustpoliciesandstrategiestoembedsustainabledevelopmentprinciples.
7. Produce regular reports on sustainable development performance to the Resources Committee and the Trust Board twice yearly.
8. Deliver Trust annual sustainability reporting requirements through the Sustainability Reporting Framework and other requirements.
9. [...]

1. [...] means to deliver service improvements to improve sustainability and patient health andwellbeing.
2. Establish a Green plan user group with Senior Stakeholder managers and set up a range of user groups to explore a range of initiatives.
3. Work with the Comms team to publish a case study per month related to the aims of the Green plan to ensure buy in from the Trust staff.
4. Providesupportandguidanceto theCapitalEstates,OperationalEstatesandFacilitiesManagers and relevant on-site staff across the Trust in all matters relating to environmental, energy, sustainable procurement, and waste management.
5. [...].
6. [...] including intranet, staff newsletters, events, campaigns and workshops.
7. [...] training and training on specific issues for all staff, both clinical and non-clinical.
8. [...]

1. Provide advice to the Trust on investment initiatives and recommend best use of Trust financialresources.
2. Deliver economies through sustainable environmental, energy, waste, procurement, workforce development and travel initiatives, defined through both financial savings and reduced carbonemissions.
3. Provide income generation advice, supporting the Trust to access charitable or local/ central government finance to fund sustainability initiatives.
4. Makesavingsandattractinvestment,becauseofimplementingsustainabilityschemes.
5. Work with the outsourced Hard FM contractor to maximise the potential of their sustainability commitments, monitor and report on outcomes.
6. [...] are achieved.
7. ManagestaffandtrainingbudgetforEnergy&Sustainabilityteam.
8. Responsibilityforensuringenergyandutilitiesbudgetsareagreedandmanaged.
9. Adoptprojectmanagementdisciplinesinthedeliveryoftherole.
10. Programmemanagetheimplementationofsustainabilityschemes.
11. Managestaffasrequiredanddelivertrainingonareaofexpertise.
12. Deliver accurate, reliable, and timely reporting systems for the Director, Executive, Resources Committee and Board on the performance of sustainability and environmental initiatives and associated impact. Monitor outcomes, highlighting good practice or contentious issues, such as targets not attained.
13. Ensure comprehensive monitoring and targeting systems for social value, carbon, energy, transport, procurement, waste and water are maintained to enable reporting on cost, [...] the Trust’s overall environmental performance.
14. Maintain clear records of sustainability initiatives implemented and costs and benefits of eachinitiative.
15. RaisetheprofileofsustainabilitywithintheTrust andtheTrust’senvironmental credentials across

1. Develop and maintain effective relationships with our partners including Government agencies, Department of Health & Social Care, Local Authority, Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership, universities and other external agencies and networks.
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This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025