Sustainability Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
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Role summary
The Sustainability Officer will support the Sustainability team in delivering strategic objectives and projects outlined in the Trust Green Plan. This involves assisting with various workstreams like energy, waste, and travel, promoting sustainable behaviour change through engagement, and maintaining internal and external communications. The role also includes project support, data collection for environmental reporting, and assisting with audits and report preparation. This is a hybrid role with flexible remote and on-site working across Trust sites.
Essential criteria
- A degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in a relevant subject area such as sustainability, environmental science or management, or healthcare related.
- Demonstrable knowledge of sustainability and climate change issues
- High level of planning and organisational skills, experience of meeting competing priorities and working independently
- Excellent non-verbal and verbal communication skills
- Evidence or experience of stakeholder management and relationship building
- Values
Desirable criteria
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
- A degree or equivalent qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience in a relevant subject area such as sustainability, environmental science or management, or healthcare related.
- Demonstrable knowledge of sustainability and climate change issues
- High level of planning and organisational skills, experience of meeting competing priorities and working independently
- Excellent non-verbal and verbal communication skills
- Evidence or experience of stakeholder management and relationship building
- Values
- Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
- Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
- Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
The Sustainability Officer will assist the Sustainability team with delivery of strategic objectives and projects outlined in the Trust Green Plan. Reporting to the Sustainability Manager, they will provide support across a range of workstreams including energy, water, waste, travel and transport, procurement, green spaces and biodiversity.
The role will include progressing stakeholder and staff engagement, maintaining sustainability communications both internally and externally using the Trust intranet, newsletters, and Teams channels. Promoting sustainable behaviour change by visiting sites, attending events, providing engagement on team away days, information sharing, and developing and supporting the sustainability champions' network.
Project support and delivery will be required through data collection and input for a range of metrics across environmental reporting, completion of surveys and internal audits and assisting with the preparation of reports. They will offer support to other Trust departments with Green Plan workstreams and targets and help monitor risks and issues and escalate these to the Sustainability Manager where necessary.
This is a hybrid role, offering a flexible combination of remote and on-site working. The successful candidate will be expected to work across Trust sites as required, supporting project delivery.
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