Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 151-LC389
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough, Berkshire
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum Incl HCAS + on call £3,120 pa, + additional £1.45 ph
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Technical Supervisor
Band 6
Job overview
Join Our Estates Team at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced and motivated electrical professional looking to take the next step in your career?
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a proactive and skilled Estates Electrical Supervisor to join our dedicated Estates team. This is an essential role in ensuring the safe, efficient and reliable operation of our hospital’s electrical and mechanical systems — supporting the delivery of exceptional patient care every day.
Main duties of the job
As an Estates Electrical Supervisor, you will play a vital part in maintaining and improving the hospital’s building services and infrastructure. You’ll oversee the day-to-day delivery of maintenance and repair works, ensuring all activities meet regulatory standards and Health & Safety requirements.
You will also:
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Supervise Estates staff and contractors, ensuring work is carried out safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
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Act as the Trust’s Authorised Person (AP) for Electrical Safety (HTM 06-02).
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Manage and monitor reactive and planned maintenance tasks using the Trust’s electronic systems.
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Lead and support your team in achieving compliance and service excellence.
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Take part in the Estates Manager on-call rota (1 in 4) — enhancing your overall earning potential.
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Be responsible for ordering and managing materials and stock, ensuring best value and efficient use of resources.
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Provide technical advice to colleagues and departments across the Trust.
This role offers the opportunity to make a tangible difference to patient and staff environments, while developing your leadership, compliance and technical expertise in a forward-thinking NHS Trust.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note: This post does not offer visa sponsorship.
For further details, please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification.
About You
We’re looking for someone with:
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A sound background in electrical and mechanical systems, ideally within a healthcare or large-scale estates environment.
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Strong technical knowledge of Building Management Systems (BMS) and the ability to diagnose and rectify faults.
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Experience in supervising trade staff and contractors, maintaining high standards of safety and compliance.
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Excellent organisational and communication skills.
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A flexible, proactive approach — with the ability to work on-call and across sites when required.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Good general education
- Recognised trade apprenticeship. NVQ level 3 or equivalent electrical installation/maintenance
- • City and Guilds BS 7671 18th edition in Electrical installation
Desirable criteria
- HNC Mech/Elec Eng
- City & Guilds Authorised Person – LV AP (HTM 06-02)
- C&G 2391 inspection & testing
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills and ability to address and develop solutions to problems.
- Good communication skills for effective working relationships throughout the organisation.
- Ability to work on own initiative and part of a team.
- Organised approach to work.
- Basic IT skills for material ordering.
- Evidence of good written and spoken communication skills.
- Able to follow written instructions and procedures.
- Ability to train other members of the estates team.
- High standard of workmanship and high quality completion on all work undertaken.
- Experience in an engineering service
Desirable criteria
- Service within the field of maintenance, focus on service supply, problem solving keeping the client informed.
- Trend BMS experience fault finding and operating
- Knowledge of HTMs
- Experience with CHP systems
- NHS Experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with demanding scenarios.
- Demonstrate dedicated and committed member of the team.
- Flexibility to cope with new and changing demands.
- Good attention to detail.
- Approachable and tactful.
- Ability to work overtime at short notice.
- Ability and willingness to undertake emergency situations repairs.
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- To have relevant previous working experience within the building trades.
- Experience of working within a large industrial/ commercial environment.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in an Acute Hospital Environment.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Martin Sheehan
- Job title
- Interim Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07393254002
- Additional information
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