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Job summary

Main area
Mechanical
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call arrangement)
Job ref
361-6663508-A
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/12/2024 23:59

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East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust logo

Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist – Mechanical

NHS AfC: Band 5

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The job role is busy and varied, working as part of the Mechanical team, as well as the rest of the maintenance team and managing your own workload. You will be required to liaise with people within your department and around the Trusts Sites. 

The role will require attending maintenance requests, on call urgent call outs and weekly Planned Maintenance work orders. 

You will be expected to commute between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility.

Our Values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

You will be a technician with a mechanical or plumbing background and will carry out, with minimum supervision, maintenance and installation work on all facilities, plant and equipment throughout East and Norther Herts NHS Trust Estate, to deputise for the Team Leader in their absence.

You will also provide technical engineering advice and support for the maintenance of equipment, fabric, and utility services for the trust.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

 We run the following hospitals:

  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision.  If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. 

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • Approved Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, or City Guilds Technicians Certificate, BTEC ONC or equivalent in relevant topics.

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Proven relevant experience working on breakdowns and PPM on mechanical/plumbing plant & equipment in a hospital environment.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous hospital experience
  • Recognised M&E hands on experience with DHWS, Heating services
  • Working knowledge of maintenance of medical gases

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Keyboard skills
  • High motivation
  • Able to work unsupervised

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
John Berry
Job title
Estates Supervisor
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438 284141
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