Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. There are over 4,000 dedicated members of staff delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering a region of 2,200 miles.
To improve our in-house estates services we are seeking to recruit to our Bank team a highly competent, enthusiastic, motivated individual as Estates Officer to assist in managing the upkeep of the AWP estate on an ad-hoc basis.
The postholder will assist in managing the maintenance contract arrangements of the trust, liaise with operational service staff to ensure the estate meets their needs, contribute to developing programmes for refurbishment where needed, and take responsibility for some aspects of technical statutory compliance of the estate.
To successfully achieve this, a wide-ranging experience of estate maintenance is needed, together with areas of detailed knowledge or specialism in either a building fabric construction/maintenance discipline or a building services mechanical/electrical discipline. Experience of supervising work in the healthcare environment, particularly mental health or elderly care, would be beneficial.
For full details of the requirements of this role please see the job description and person specification attached.