Job overview

Venn Group is proud to be working in exclusive partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) to recruit an Estates Operations Manager (mechanical bias). This is a vital leadership role supporting the infrastructure of one of the world’s most renowned paediatric hospitals.

This is a unique opportunity to join the forward-thinking Space & Place Directorate at GOSH, where engineering excellence underpins life-changing care for children and young people. As Estates Operations Manager, you’ll lead the Maintenance & Engineering team and contractors, ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of mechanical and building services across the Trust.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing planned and reactive maintenance, statutory compliance, and engineering governance across critical systems including medical gases, ventilation, boiler plant, and water safety. Acting as an Authorised Person (AP), you’ll ensure robust risk management and contribute to strategic estates planning, backlog maintenance reduction, and sustainability initiatives.

This role offers the chance to shape operational standards, lead service innovation, and work closely with senior stakeholders to deliver safe environments for patients, staff, and visitors.

Please note: your application details will be shared with Venn Group.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for engineering Mechanical services within the hospital sites

Facilitate a quality Estates service that is responsive to the Trust operational needs, ensuring that the service provided is efficient and effective and delivered to the highest possible standards maximising the Trust's assets for its patients, visitors and staff within the resources allocated.

Provide detailed professional and technical estates advice and support to the senior leadership team within Estates, Trust staff external contractors and consultants covering any issues relating to or that have an impact on the delivery of the operational service.

 Ensure compliance with all Statutory Standards, Codes of Practice, Health and Safety Guidance, Health Technical Memoranda, COSHH, Building Regulations and NHS Executive Directives, relating to Estates Services

Ensure robust and detailed planned maintenance teams work to the highest standards, ensuring efficiency and continuous Improvement

Monitor the compliance performance of teams and manage improvements and efficiencies that meet our KPI Targets and Space and Place Strategy

To oversee and manage the annual Performance Appraisal Development 
Review (PDR) /VBA for the team

To complete and maintain all relevant training as captured within the performance appraisal development review process

Undertake training and development to support the directorate in performance management and HR processes

Working for our organisation

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.