Job vacancy: Energy Manager, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Basingstoke or Winchester

Job summary

Main area: Energy Management
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 251-CORP3254-EM

Employer: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: BNHH or RHCH
Town: Basingstoke or Winchester
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/07/2025 23:59

Energy Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsible for leading the Trust’s energy and decarbonisation strategy and policy. Monitoring and managing the Trust’s energy and utilities portfolio. Including managing efficient energy usage across the Trust and the transition to generation of onsite renewable energy and heat in line with the requirements of the Green Plan and HHFT Strategy.
Development of long-term sustainable efficiency saving strategy linked to a programme of energy reduction initiatives to cut energy consumption and reduce CO2 emissions. Establish detailed energy reduction action plans and renewable energy generation plans with long, medium, and short-term goals. Incorporating options at all levels including no-cost, low, medium, and high cost with consideration of payback periods and long-term benefits.
Develop and implement behavioural change initiatives to improve awareness and reduce energy usage.
To act as corporate lead in relation to energy procurement and management, working with procurement teams to achieve best value for money in the purchase of utilities and renewal of energy supply contracts.
Identify and manage the implementation of energy efficiency projects to improve the energy efficiency of Trust buildings and deliver on-going cost savings.
Deliver energy efficiency and carbon reduction in line with the NHS England Estates ‘Net Zero’ Carbon Delivery Plan. To meet the commitments laid out in the NHS’s decarbonisation strategy (as set out in the ‘Delivering a Net Zero National Health Service’ report) and in line with HHFT’s net-zero carbon reduction targets.
To keep abreast of energy and utilities legislation, industry developments and good practice and then use that knowledge to devise and implement initiatives which deliver service improvements.
Prepare detailed reports for Senior Management, relating to energy management and performance, costs, and carbon reduction. Establish and implement robust and verifiable measures to enable consistent reporting, internally and externally, on the Trust’s overall energy use, energy saving, energy generation and carbon reduction performance.
Utilise the existing systems and platforms (such as Building Energy Management Systems, and web portals) to identify areas for improving energy utilisation, produce related reports and presentations.
Collate energy information from varying sources, for example, invoices, sub meters and AMR (automatic meter readings). Manage meter readings, monitor, analyse and report on energy use.
Ensure that Display Energy Certificates are current and procured in a cost-effective manner and recommendation reports utilised for implementation of efficiency saving measures.
To liaise with the Capital and Projects Teams to ensure that due account of building insulation, energy efficiency and renewable energy generation are appropriately incorporated within the planning of capital schemes for both new buildings and refurbishments.
Undertake energy audits of buildings, wards & departments to establish levels of energy usage and to establish performance indicators for building comparison purposes. Identify areas of good and poor practice and in conjunction with Senior Managers provide required behavioural, equipment and building fabric changes.
Maintain clear records of energy and carbon reduction initiatives implemented and costs and benefits of each initiative. Carry out periodic audits of installed energy-efficiency, carbon reduction schemes and renewable energy generation systems to assess their performance and identify improvements to be made on future schemes.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Degree in technical subject or equivalent knowledge

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

Experience securing funding for energy management projects

Desirable criteria

Experience with BMS systems
Project management qualification
Membership of relevant professional body

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Project Management experience

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.