Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-EA095-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £37,898 - £45,637 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Officer
Band 6
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Lead & co-ordinate the day to day activities of the complete maintenance service, so as to deliver a robust, technically strong customer responsive service which complies with relevant statutory directives.
Also to monitor and guide the staff who reports to them, and assist external contractors to complete their tasks and objectives.
To have made an effective contribution to reaching the Health Board’s vision, strategic objectives and key work programmes.
Main duties of the job
Do you want to work for an innovative and integrated healthcare organisation in a role which combines senior leadership and technical knowledge?
Then look no further - we are looking for bright and ambitious Operational Estates Officer to join our great team at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
We are looking for someone who has a strong track record of managing and delivering a customer focused Estates service at a similar level in a highly complex environment, preferably in healthcare.
We need Estates Officers who will lead a team, where the quality of service, a safe patient and staff environment, strong financial management and statutory compliance are the key drivers within all areas of the service.
This is a key role within our operational team, and we are keen to recruit motivated individuals who will help us to provide the levels of service that we continually strive to provide to our patients and clinical colleagues.
As a senior manager the post holder will assist in the production and delivery of the organisation's estates operational plans and will provide operational support in the delivery of capital projects. They will provide line management accountability for associated multi-skilled staff and will ensure appropriate financial, workforce and performance management arrangements are in place.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree / HND or equivalent, successful completion of a recognised apprenticeship, plus significant demonstrable experience. Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience of leading and managing staff within an estates function of equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Authorised person status IOSH Certification Corporate member of an appropriate profession to engineering or management
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of a wide range of estates operations at management level Day to day management of statutory and mandatory PPM Experience of managing large teams of engineering and maintence staff Management of policies and procedures in delivering estates functions Experience of delivering services to budget Management of H&S within the workplace
Desirable criteria
- Experience of management within a NHS or public sector estates or facilities function Experience of public sector procurement process Experience of capital project delivery
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Within an estates, maintence, facilities management function Proven knowledge of H&S legislation Knowledge of statutory compliance Knowledge of WHTM's Knowledge of HR process and policy
Desirable criteria
- Use of Microsoft office, report writing, CAD
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alan Martin
- Job title
- Head of Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747 012329
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