Facilities Manager

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Bristol; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity in Bristol is looking for a Facilities Manager to oversee facility services ensuring high operational standards. The role requires proven experience in a similar position, strong people management skills, and a NEBOSH or relevant Health & Safety qualification. In this position, you will manage teams, ensure compliance with regulations, and develop strong internal and external relationships. The position offers a range of benefits designed to enhance your wellbeing, including gym memberships and health assessments.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a facilities management role.
• Ability to motivate and inspire a team.
• Excellent interpersonal and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of facilities services for high standards.
• Lead portering and housekeeping teams.
• Project manage minor refurbishment works.

Skills

People management

Communication

Budget management

Relationship building

Education

NEBOSH qualification or similar

Job description

Facilities Manager

Bristol Hospital | Facilities | Permanent | Full time

Up to £45,000 per annum depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

As our 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.

You will have proven experience in a similar role with people management responsibilities, as you will be a confident and supportive leader, able to motivate and inspire a team, in addition to this you will have excellent communication and IT skills, as you utilise your interpersonal skills to build positive working relationships. The ideal candidate with be familiar with budget management and have a NEBOSH or relevant Health & Safety qualification.

Key responsibilities include:

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

To succeed as a Facilities Manager, you will need;

• Experience of managing outsourced contracts
• A NEBOSH qualification or similar
• Experience of managing people
• An ability to develop strong relationships with a multi disciplinary staff group
• To be able to work through personal influence
• To be diligent on prioritising and completing key tasks under your remit

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

About Bristol Nuffield Health

Situated in the beautiful village of Clifton, Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital - The Chesterfield, has a long and distinguished history of looking after the people of Bristol. With the latest equipment, and designed to meet the needs of all of our patients, we are constantly developing our services to ensure our patients receive the finest quality treatment. A 30 private bed hospital which houses 4 theatres and combinesleading-edge clinical facilities with an outstanding customer experience. We cater 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. Working with leading consultants, Bristol hospital prevents and treats many medical conditions and offers a wide range of complex surgery and services. The working atmosphere is innovative, highly professional, yet friendly and collaborative like that of a large family unit.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

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. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.

It starts with you.