Estates Officer (Engineering) Band 6

The Band 6 Estates Officer plays a pivotal role in supporting the effective management and development of the Trust's estate, ensuring that buildings, engineering systems, and infrastructure are maintained to a safe, compliant, and high-quality standard. Reporting to the Estates Manager, the post holder is responsible for overseeing day-to-day estates operations, managing maintenance programmes, monitoring contractor performance, and ensuring statutory and mandatory compliance requirements are met across the organisation.

The role requires close collaboration with clinical and non-clinical departments to ensure the estate supports the delivery of safe patient care and operational services. In addition to operational management, the Estates Officer provides leadership to estates staff, supporting workforce development, performance management, and service improvement initiatives.

The role also contributes to the planning and delivery of capital and backlog maintenance projects, assists with financial and resource management, and provides technical expertise on engineering, building, and compliance matters. As part of the Estates management team, the post holder is expected to manage competing priorities, respond to emergency situations, and drive continuous improvement to ensure the Trust's estate remains safe, efficient, sustainable, and fit for purpose., The Estates Officer is responsible for managing and coordinating the day-to-day delivery of estates maintenance services across Trust sites, ensuring that engineering systems, buildings, and infrastructure are safe, reliable, and compliant with statutory requirements. This includes overseeing planned preventative maintenance programmes, responding to operational issues, monitoring contractor performance, undertaking technical inspections and surveys, and ensuring that all estates activities support the effective delivery of healthcare services. The post holder provides technical advice to staff and stakeholders, assists with compliance monitoring, and supports the management of risks associated with the Trust estate., The role also involves leading and supporting estates staff, including allocating workloads, monitoring performance, identifying training needs, and promoting high standards of service delivery. The Estates Officer contributes to the planning and delivery of capital and backlog maintenance projects, manages budgets and resources within agreed limits, and supports the implementation of service improvement initiatives. Working as part of the Estates management team, the post holder is expected to investigate faults and incidents, contribute to emergency response arrangements, and ensure that the Trust's estate remains efficient, compliant, sustainable, and fit for purpose.

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).