Estates Officer - Electrical

This opportunity is to join the Estates Management team delivering a planned, coordinated, and pro-active maintenance service and to support the overall objectives of the Trust.

You will be an integral part of the team and will provide a wide range of duties to manage, support and assist the Estates Department. You will be qualified to the appropriate level with a building services electrical trade background. You will be responsible for organising and managing planned and reactive maintenance alongside out-sourced service contract providers within a complex estate.

Main duties of the job

1. You will manage, develop, co-ordinate and maintain documentation, registers and log books for electrical engineering services including Health & Safety, Risk Assessments and method statements.

2. You will monitor compliance in specialist areas of work e.g. low voltage systems, fire alarm, nurse call, and BMS systems.

3. You will assist the Head of Estates in achieving departmental budget objectives. You will have delegated budget responsibility for a particular budget (e.g. backlog revenue budget) and will make decisions regarding this including authorising invoices etc., and reporting on progress etc.

4. You will have responsibility for proposing, implementing and reviewing departmental policies/practices.

5. You will provide out of hours emergency call out services as and when required in accordance with the on call rota.

The Trust's services are provided from three locations:

o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds.o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire.

The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&E, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery