Estates Manager

Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.

The role of Estates Manager supports people using our services by ensuring our buildings are safe and warm environments to work in, visit and be treated.

The Estates Manager oversees all building related operations of a public estate, managing staff and contractors, coordinating maintenance & repairs, handling budgets & finances, planning and approving works, and liaising with clinical colleagues to ensure smooth, efficient, and secure property management.

You’ll also contribute to service improvements and help us live our values every day. You will be the main representative and operational point of contact between site based colleagues and the wider support function.

• To contribute to delivering the Trust's estates strategy by assisting in the evaluation of site and usage options and proposing creative and inspiring suggestions for improvements.
• To develop strong and positive working relationships with clinical colleagues to maximise the potential of the estate and its development.
• Ensure that the fabric and fixtures and fittings of the estate is maintained to a high standard and meets the Trust's current and future needs.
• Ensure daily and short-term maintenance of all areas of the Estate. This will involve both reactive maintenance and prioritising a short, medium and long term maintenance programme.
• To ensure appropriate safeguarding and health and safety compliance and that all risk assessments and contractor safety checks are carried out.
• Build and amend reports and data dashboards as required to meet business needs and contractual process.
• Carry out monitoring of data to ensure that Helpdesk work orders have been accurately created, assigned, prioritised and categorised in line with contractual KPI's and SLA's.
• Support Estates and Facilities Teams in the production of customer satisfaction surveys and the analysis/reporting of responses.
• Update and maintain key contractual documentation and records as required.
• Ensure services are delivered safely and in line with the requirements of the Health and Safety.

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.

We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under‑represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway.

Rated “Good” by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple:
We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.