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We have an amazing opportunity available to join our well-established and forward-thinking organisation of NHS Blood and Transplant.
If you’re experienced in facilities or maintenance management or working as an assistant facilities manager, you would experience valuable growth and support in working with our state-of-the-art systems in a well-structured and progressive organisation.
You will be supporting the Estates and Facilities Manager in managing the maintenance of our Oxford site and other sites in the surrounding area. You’ll manage a small team of administrators and contractors to ensure a safe working environment for your colleagues, donors, and visitors. You’d be a core member of an organisation that’s fundamental to the health and resilience of the nation.
We are always keen to appreciate the experience of new staff, whether you have private sector experience of building maintenance or you have worked within other NHS trusts. You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
In this role, you’ll help the Estates & Facilities Manager in managing the effective and efficient delivery of local NHSBT site services. Your responsibilities will include:
Support the delivery of high-quality estates and facilities services across multiple sites, helping ensure safe, compliant, and well-maintained environments.
Act as a key point of contact for local stakeholders, building strong relationships and responding to service needs effectively.
Lead and support teams, contractors, and service providers, creating a positive, collaborative environment focused on performance and continuous improvement.
Contribute to planning and delivering facilities projects, ensuring work is completed on time, within budget, and to required standards.
Promote a strong safety culture by supporting risk assessments, health and safety compliance, and emergency response arrangements.
Help manage contracts, budgets, and resources, ensuring services are efficient and deliver value for money.
Contribute to business continuity planning, responding effectively to incidents or unexpected events.
Support the development and implementation of best practice, procedures, and quality systems.
You will be required to travel and spend time away from base, which will involve working irregular hours when required, with prior notice.
Experience and Knowledge
Proven experience managing contractors and working within facilities or estates services.
Experience of managing people and leading teams to deliver objectives.
Experience of working collaboratively across functions and building relationships.
Knowledge and application of Health and Safety regulations and statutory compliance.
Experience managing facilities services and operations.
Experience managing budgets within a service environment.
Knowledge of risk management and continuous improvement.
Qualifications and Training
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Either a degree in Facilities Management, Building Services, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering or equivalent demonstrable experience.
It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you’ll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.
Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do.
By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too. Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever.
You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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Flexible working options we promote flexible working where the role allows. We’re happy to discuss what flexibility might look like for you.
- Generous annual leave - 27 days annual leave (pro rata for part-time) plus Bank Holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and to 33 days after 10 years.
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Inclusive pension scheme - the NHS Pension Scheme is a defined benefit scheme (not dependent on investment returns). Further details and outline of benefits can be found at: http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/information-about-nhs-pensions
- Supportive learning culture - we’ve fostered a culture of continuous learning where colleagues are well-led, engaged, and encouraged to grow. We support you in reaching your full potential, both in your current role and future career. Our Thrive program embodies our commitment to learning and development, offering a wide range of activities to support your personal and professional growth. It’s open to everyone at NHSBT, ensuring you have the resources to succeed and shine in your role.
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Health and wellbeing support we offer confidential services including occupational health, employee assistance programme, and wellbeing resources. Our support is available to all colleagues and we endeavour to provide tailored workplace adjustments where possible.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from disabled candidates. We will talk with you to explore any adjustments that may help you during the recruitment process.
You can find more information about accessibility, our culture, and how we support applicants on the NHSBT Careers website:
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Read about our application process
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Learn more about our culture at NHSBT
To learn more, please see the job description and person specification. These can be accessed via the link below, or by clicking ‘Apply’ if you are viewing this advert on another site.
This vacancy will close at 23:59 on Thursday 4 June 2026.
The assessment process for this role will be a single in-person interview in Oxford. Interviews are anticipated to be held on Monday 15 June, subject to confirmation.
For informal enquiries about the job please contact Matthew Parr, Estates & Facilities Manager at [email protected].
