Estates and Facilities Monitoring Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Monitoring Officer to join our award winning Estates and Facilities Department on a permanent basis. The post will support Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, its partners and other services as part of the NHS Strategic Transformation Plans and property management services, to deliver professional estates services in support of estates strategy, operations and environmental initiatives whilst determining and delivering positive quality standards but with particular focus on the service user environment and contractual obligations in-line with the Trust Partners. The role of the Estates and Facilities department is to ensure the provision of an appropriate, safe, secure and high-quality environment which meets the needs and expectations of our patients, staff, visitors and provider partners., The role of the Estates and Facilities Monitoring Officer is to carry out audits to ensure the PFI contract provides value for money to the Trust and the best services to patients, visitors and staff, by independent and joint audit monitoring of facilities services. Carrying out regular audits of the hospital environment in clinical and non-clinical areas. The post-holder will create verbal and written reports on the above

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.