Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust • London SE1 4YB
About this role
The Energy Manager will be the Trust lead specialist with overall responsibility for establishing, monitoring and overseeing management of utilities across the Trust. The post holder will lead the staff who collate the metering data and ensure accurate records for electricity, gas, fuel and water consumption across the entire GSTT estate. The post holder will be responsible for checking the accuracy of payments to our energy suppliers and ensure timely billing/recovery of costs from the Trust’s tenants / partners. Where opportunities arise, the post holder will look to find innovative solutions to streamline energy management processes and support the Trust’s sustainability agenda by working closely with the sustainability team.
- Manage Trust utilities consumption, costs, and carbon footprint and drive down cost and carbon emission savings
- Manage the Trust utility supplier contracts including supporting the timely validation and processing of invoices to ensure service continuity
- Accountable for the invoice validation audit process and accurate tenant recharges for utilities, recovering c.£10 million in income for the Trust, per year
- Responsible for developing a metering, monitoring and targeting strategy to help the Trust track, analyse and manage its consumption of utilities, across complex utilities distribution networks at multiple sites with ageing infrastructure, to monitor trends and target efficiencies in relation to utilities consumption and cost
- Develop systems and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant legislation/regulations relating to non-operational management of utilities, ensuring that these processes and records are audit ready
- Accountable for the provision of utility consumption, cost and carbon footprint data for the completion of the Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC), Premises Assurance Model (PAM) as required and for carbon reporting
- Regular reporting on utilities consumption, costs and carbon footprint to the Trust executive in comparison to the annual set budget and advise on resources required to more efficiently manage utilities
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark
The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member, and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
- Interest free Season Ticket Loan
- Long Term Service Awards
- Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
- A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'
- Ride to work scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Free stop smoking service
Our Trust values
We are Caring / Ambitions / Inclusive
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Sunday 31 May 2026