Environmental and Sustainability Consultant

**Our client** has an exciting opportunity to join their team as an **Environmental and Sustainability Consultant**. You will join on a **full-time, permanent basis**, and will be based at**Kent and Canterbury HospitalinCanterbury.** In return, you will receive a competitive salary of **£45,000per annum.**

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Our client prides itself on the delivery of high-quality Facilities, Property and Estates, Procurement, Equipment Management,and Professional Services.

They put customer service and quality at the heart of everything we do across all of their areas of expertise, from Cleaning and Catering to Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

Encompassing five Hospitals across East Kent, (William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, Buckland Hospital in Dover, Royal Victoria Hospital in Folkestone; and Kent and Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury), they areworking hard to become an employer of choice by improving pay, and providing opportunities for learning and development in the workplace for all of their employees.

**About the role**:
The Environmental and Sustainability Consultantis an integral part of the team. This position offers a great opportunity to lead with an overall responsibility to develop and embed sustainability principles within East Kent Hospitals University NHS FoundationTrust (EKHUFT) and work 2gether Towards Zero.

**Why work for them?**
- 25 days annual leave allowance
- The opportunity to buy or sell up to 10 days annual leave each year
- Company Pension
- Training and development opportunities including BICS and functional skills training
- Career progression
- Discount in selected high street retailers
- Onsite childcare facilities at their three acute sites
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme with Health Assured

**Your responsibilities as theirEnvironmental and Sustainability Consultantwill include**:

- Providing a high quality, customer focused and efficient delivery of environmental and sustainability services ensuring that these meet statutory and contractual requirements
- Brand the environmental & sustainability image of EKHUFT and communicate effectively
- Reviewing and setting environmental targets and objectives for each site within the portfolio
- Setting, monitoring and reporting performance against targets
- Reviewing and appraising each site's energy and water consumption that is monitored
- Cascade sustainability requirements to the supply chain
- Developing and establishing Trust-wide policies and initiatives for carbon management and related environmental improvements whilst ensuring all risks are fully assessed in order to develop savings and cost efficiencies across the Trust
- Establishing targets, detecting and investigating consumption or cost exceptions to increase efficiency and minimise carbon wastage

**What they are looking for in their idealEnvironmental and Sustainability Consultant**:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences or Environmental Management or Sustainability Communications
- Experience of implementing and managing ISO 14001 or similar
- A minimum of 3+ years experience in sustainable working practices, environmental and energy management within a large organisation
- Well versed in policy writing and able to train this information to colleagues
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written) to be able to get people on board and share your information messages, which will include presentation skills
- Ability to influence and engage with and train staff at all levels within an organisation
- Data gathering and reporting using Excel Report writing Influencing skills
- Extensive experience of leading and driving sustainability within a large organisation
- A minimum of 3+ years working within the sustainability sector
- Experience of working collaboratively and influencing without directly managing
- Researching relevant sustainability journals, conferences and practices to enable you to be a leader
- Experience of implementing environmental management systems

If you feel you have the skills and experience to join them as their **Environmental and Sustainability Consultant**, click “**apply**” now - they’d love to hear from you