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Job overview

An exciting opportunity is now available to strengthen the existing workforce and to promote and enhance the Operational Estates Team.

Your base will be Salford Royal Hospital where you will carry out plumbing repairs and planned maintenance, breakdown maintenance and diagnosing faults including a degree of new installation work.

This is a great role to work with likeminded people within one of the biggest employers.

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the above you will work to plumbing systems including pipeline, water tanks and various sanitary fixtures and fittings, remedial roof repairs and various equipment items as managed by the Estates Department.  Many of the repairs will need to be attended to urgently. 

You are required to carry out maintenance of complex systems including Heating and DHW systems, pressurised systems, water systems, tanks, rainwater systems, building management systems, plant and equipment contained within the theatres and throughout the hospital and peripheral sites.  You will be required to partake in a hospital site on-call system after a familiarisation period and overtime may be available, both enabling a boost to earning potential.

You will have a minimum NVQ 2 Plumbing  qualification (City & Guilds) or equivalent and proven post apprenticeship experience.

Working for our 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.