Deputy Facilities Manager / Assistant Facilities Manager

Deputy Facilities Manager / Assistant Facilities Manager

Location: Bristol Hospital Department: Property and Facilities Contract: Permanent, Full time Hours: 37.5 hours per week Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

About the role

As Deputy Facilities Manager at Bristol, you'll manage the delivery of facilities services for the hospital to achieve high standards of operational performance, cleanliness and infection prevention. This is an opportunity to develop into a facilities manager with hands-on mentoring and structured training.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of facilities services to achieve high operational, cleanliness, and infection prevention standards
• Lead and line-manage portering and housekeeping teams, while overseeing third-party providers for Hard FM and Catering services under group-managed contracts
• Project manage minor refurbishment works and support centrally led projects
• Oversee local IT operations, escalating and resolving issues in collaboration with IT teams
• Manage compliance with Health & Safety, Fire, Risk Assessments, COSHH, Water Safety, Cleanliness, Waste Management, and Car Park Management
• Work closely with Heads of Departments, implementing group policies to ensure smooth hospital operations
• Develop and maintain key internal and external relationships, including the Regional Property Manager, national H&S and procurement leads, national FM contractors, local suppliers, and Fire services
• Report to the Director of Operations, providing internal support to hospital departments while managing contracts to maintain a high-functioning hospital environment

Requirements

• Experience of managing outsourced contracts
• NEBOSH qualification or similar
• Ability to develop strong relationships with a multidisciplinary staff group
• Ability to work through personal influence
• Diligence in prioritising and completing key tasks under your remit
• Familiarity with budget management

Benefits

• Free gym membership
• Health assessments
• Retail discounts
• Pension options
• Range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards

About Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital

Situated in Clifton, Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital - The Chesterfield has a long and distinguished history of caring for the people of Bristol. It is a 30 private bed hospital which houses 4 theatres and combines leading-edge clinical facilities with an outstanding customer experience.

The hospital caters for both inpatient and day case surgery, providing a broad range of surgical specialties including: General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Endoscopy, Gynaecology, Urology, Ophthalmology, ENT, Vascular, Plastics and more.

The working atmosphere is innovative, highly professional, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

About Nuffield Health

Nuffield Health is the UK's largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we've been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. We operate a family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and into our social impact programmes designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services.

Application note

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.