Welcome to Estates
Operational Estates Team
Offering expertise across all aspects of designing, managing and operating buildings and estate. For both conventional and specialist environments and for a wide range of patient and staff needs, our teams are highly motivated with experience to provide best value and skills to support your needs.
The in house team provides a 24 hour 7 days a week high quality, dedicated maintenance service across all of the Trusts premises and sites. We directly employ highly qualified Estates staff in;
Mechanical and Electrical engineering
Joinery
Painting and Decorating
Grounds and Gardens
Maintenance
Specialist and Property Team
Our Specialist and Property Teams look after a wide range of important services, including compliance, our energy and sustainability work, and management of our property portfolio.
The NTW Solutions Property Team manage all of the space across CNTW, making sure all of our office and clinical spaces are used efficiently and that teams have the space they need to carry out their work.
We manage space allocation within all CNTW buildings and manage leased properties for the Trust too. This means we are responsible for all office and ward moves.
The team manages our PFI contracts and works to ensure that PFI hospitals are maintained well and provide best value for money.
We also work on major projects with developers where the buildings are leased to us such as at Benton House in Newcastle and at Monkwearmouth Hospital in Sunderland.
Numerous schemes that have been managed by the team have gone on to achieve national recognition and have become a beacon for best practice within the sphere of mental health environments. Innovative solutions to complex problems are constantly sought and detailed project evaluations are undertaken to ensure that the product offered to our client is not only bespoke to their needs but offers the very best in terms of quality that aid clinical staff in providing world class care.
Capital Team
The capital services team offer a complete project management solution to both small works and major construction schemes. Working productively alongside all stakeholders the team has developed a proven track record from inception to completion including a structured and supported soft landings approach of delivering high-end project outcomes.
Numerous schemes that have been managed by the team have gone on to achieve national recognition and have become a beacon for best practice within the sphere of mental health environments. Innovative solutions to complex problems are constantly sought and detailed project evaluations are undertaken to ensure that the product offered to our client is not only bespoke to their needs but offers the very best in terms of quality that aid Clinical staff in providing world class care.
With dedication, commitment, motivation to succeed and by adopting a personable approach the team possess the below capabilities;
- Detailed Brief and Business Case population support
- Extensive knowledge of specialised mental health guidance, standards and regulations. Forensic, Dementia, Adult Autism, PICU, Children and Young people services et al.
- Diverse array of project management experience and expertise available for construction techniques, standards, regulations and components. Including Fire Safety, Water Quality, Building Regulations, CDM, BREEAM, HBN’s and HTM’s.
- Commercial and contractual acumen to ensure expenditure against budget allocation and appropriate contract negotiations.
- In-House Design capabilities
- Quality Management
- Detailed planning and dedicated support for all stakeholders through the commissioning and initial occupation phase of a scheme
- Post completion support including service integration with the environment and defect management
- Undertaking post project evaluations providing benchmarks for future schemes
Behind the scenes
Meet Ethan, an Estates Apprentice
Hear about Ethan’s role and his training, and why he is proud to work at NTW Solutions
Meet Gayle, A Property Officer
Hear from Gayle about the Property Team about the complex
work that goes on to make sure clinical teams have the space they need to do
their jobs
Meet Daryl, an Estates Officer
Hear from Daryl what it is like at NTW Solutions, what we are all about and what his job involves
Meet some of the women in our teams
Our Estates services, like the sector as a whole has traditionally been male dominated. Read more about some of the women who work across our teams in Estates.
