Estates Group Energy and Carbon Manager | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust in Salford

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) is seeking an experienced and motivated Group Energy and Carbon Manager to join the Estates Technical Team. This is an excellent opportunity to lead and influence energy, utilities, and carbon reduction activity across a large and diverse estate spanning Salford, Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, and a wide range of community properties.

Working at Group level, you will play a key role in delivering the NCA’s Green Plan and wider sustainability objectives through technical leadership, continuous improvement, and effective change management. You will provide expert advice on energy performance, carbon reduction, compliance, and sustainable estates management, ensuring alignment with relevant legislation, standards, and guidance.

The role requires close collaboration with Estates and Facilities teams, clinical and non-clinical services, contractors, consultants, and other stakeholders across the organisation. We are looking for a candidate with a strong background in energy management, decarbonisation, and sustainability delivery, ideally within a large, complex, multi-site organisation.

You will be confident operating at both strategic and operational levels, with a proven track record of improving energy performance, driving innovation, and delivering measurable results in support of Net Zero ambitions. This is a high-profile opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to a more sustainable future across the NCA estate.

We are looking for an experienced and proactive professional to lead on energy, utilities, and carbon management across the organisation. The role will focus on reducing energy use, improving sustainability, controlling utility costs, and ensuring compliance with energy and environmental legislation.

You will help develop and deliver strategies, policies, and improvement plans that support the organisation’s carbon reduction and sustainability goals. You will be responsible for monitoring energy and water use, managing utility data and reporting, checking invoices, setting budgets and forecasts, and identifying areas where performance can be improved.

The role also includes supporting carbon reporting, compliance requirements, energy efficiency projects, renewable energy initiatives, and the effective use of systems such as metering and building management systems. You will also help prepare reports, business cases, and updates for senior managers.

This is a key role that requires persuasive communication and relationship-building skills. You will work closely with Estates teams, senior managers, contractors, suppliers, and external organisations to promote energy efficiency and sustainable working practices.

The successful candidate will be confident using data to identify issues, recommend solutions, and support positive change across the organisation. The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.

Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners.

We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.

The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.