Energy and Sustainability Manager

We are recruiting for a Energy and Sustainability Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Energy & Sustainability Manager will provide strategic and operational leadership for energy management and sustainability across the Trust estate.

The post holder will be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring energy and carbon reduction strategies (including sustainable and active travel), ensuring compliance with statutory, NHS, and government requirements.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

The role supports the Trust’s Green Plan Refresh 2025_2028 and contribution to the NHS Net Zero agenda including, improving environmental performance, reducing energy consumption and costs, and ensuring safe, efficient, and sustainable healthcare facilities.

The ESM will be expected to liaise with a wide variety of Trust staff and external organisations and provide specialist knowledge to ensure effective service delivery including those services related to the environment within Trust Policies, Procedures and Service Level Agreements.

The ESM will analyse complex information to assist in securing funding where available and deemed necessary for the implementation of Energy and Carbon Saving initiatives, and Sustainability Programmes, as well as the production of Trust Policies on Environmental Management and associated issues.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We Run The Following Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Helen O'Keefe Job title: Head of Compliance and Sustainability Email address: helen.o'***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07769993410