Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join The Hillingdon Hospital as a Estates Maintenance Manager. 

It is an exciting time to join the Trust as it is also part of the new hospitals programme. 

Main duties of the job

1. To ensure the continuity of all electrical, mechanical and building site services at The Hillingdon Hospital site by the implementation of maintenance regimes which enable the Trust to demonstrate compliance with its statutory obligations and anticipate service failures allowing corrective action to be taken in advance.
2. Direct line management of the in-house Estates Maintenance multi-skilled workforce at the Hillingdon Hospital site.
3. Direct line management of the Estates Maintenance Supervisor, Estates Maintenance Administrator, Estates Maintenance Helpdesk Coordinator (Hillingdon Hospital) and Estates Maintenance Stores Person.
4. To manage and oversee the performance of the in-house Estates Maintenance multi-skilled workforce at the Hillingdon Hospital site in regard to work orders being attended to and completed within the SLA allocated.
5. Undertake Authorised Person responsibilities, in line with Health Technical Memoranda, for relevant engineering elements.
6. To efficiently manage the Estates Maintenance budgets and control expenditure on stores and reactive maintenance which will be regularly reviewed by the Head of Estates Maintenance and Deputy Head of Maintenance.
7. Support/cover for the Estates Officer (Mechanical), Estates Officer (Electrical), and Estates Officer (Buildings) as and when required with specific tasks being designated/assigned which are acceptable to the level of competency of the post holder.
8. Deputise for the Deputy Head of Estates Maintenance.

Working for our organisation

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.