Job summary
- Main area
- Estates
- Grade
- Grade D
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-AGHS7130839
- Employer
- AGH Solutions Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £38,180 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist (Grade D)
Grade D
AGH Solutions is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. We are proud of our NHS heritage, and proud to be supporting Airedale’s clinical services.
We provide a wide range of services from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement, to clients both within and beyond the NHS.
Job overview
We are looking for an Estates Maintenance Worker Specialist to join us at Airedale as part of our AGH solutions team.
Main duties of the job
To undertake a multi skilled technician role to carry out highly complex maintenance tasks, detailed fault diagnosis, repairs, service, condition surveys and inspection of complex building, mechanical, electrical, gas equipment, associated systems, plant and equipment of a complex/non-routine nature in accordance with relevant standards and operational procedures and statutory regulations.
Supervise a team of Estates Assistants to ensure delivery of repairs and planned maintenance tasks in line with key performance indicators to a high quality standards.
Provide training to maintenance staff and contractors covering technical issues and communicate health and safety requirements to staff, patients and contractors to ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures.
Successfully achieve the specialist training qualification followed by a technical interview process to be appointed and act as the organisations “competent person” in the following areas:
• Healthcare Low voltage Competent Person
• Healthcare HVAC Competent Person
• Healthcare Medical Gases Competent Person
• Healthcare/M.O.D Mechanical Services Competent Person
Cover a 24/7 shift pattern to provide cover to attend to out of hours emergency breakdowns of patient critical services.
Working for our organisation
AGH Solutions was born out of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, a hospital and community services trust based outside Keighley, West Yorkshire.
We are privileged to operate in a beautiful part of the country. The clinical services we support reach far up into the Yorkshire Dales, across the Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven patch. We are also lucky to have excellent transport links to Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and beyond. Leeds city centre is 25 minutes by train from Keighley.
We provide a wide range of services, from traditional facilities management and estate maintenance, to sterile services, wheelchair engineering and procurement.
Our vision is to bring you a flexible, responsive, high quality, value for money service.
Our NHS heritage means we work to the values and ethics of the NHS, and to those of Airedale NHSFT specifically.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this job vacancy, please see attached full job description and person specification.
This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.
If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment which may result in the termination of your employment to comply with the relevant immigration legislation
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies.
- Completion of a recognised apprenticeship or recognised formal period of training of at least three years duration in a mechanical/electrical engineering/building services environment.
- Attainment of a formal qualification in building services/mechanical/electrical engineering to the level of:- HNC/HND (NVQ 4)
- Relevant experience to graduate. Professional level or equivalent training and experience
- Awareness of current Health & Safety Legislation and related issues such as PPE, Safe Use of Tools, Confined spaces, Manual Handling etc.
- Awareness of specific safety regulations as these may apply to building services or major items of equipment.
- Willingness to undertake further skills/competence training as may be required to fulfil the required the changing demands of the post
Desirable criteria
- Supplementary specialist training building services or mechanical systems such as:- Water Regulations Boiler Operators Certificate Industrial Gas Safety and safety issues such as:- COSHH Risk Assessments PUWER Asbestos Regulations Legionella Precautions
- Knowledge and effective use of up to date test/diagnostic equipment..
- Degree in Mechanical or Electrical or Building Services Engineering
- Formal Gas Training and CORGI registration
- Safe use of access equipment training
- Manual Handling/lifting training.
- Basic First Aid – Dealing with Electric Shock
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have considerable post qualification experience in a maintenance environment which involves building services/mechanical plant.
- Able to demonstrate current knowledge regarding the safe operation of steam boiler plant; the principles of effective combustion and water treatment regimes
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate experience of subsidiary building systems such as BMS controls, pneumatic systems, domestic hot water etc
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a good knowledge of a range of complex mechanical and electrical building services plant and equipment including pumps, fans, compressors, air conditioning etc, and relevant fault finding techniques in relation to that plant
- Must demonstrate knowledge and experience of a range of mechanical installations, operating methods and systems including heating, ventilation & boiler plant etc
- Awareness of safe systems of work, risk assessment techniques and safe working practices in connection with major plant and building systems including Permit to Work systems
- Is familiar with approved modern methods of installation and testing in relation to mechanical services and systems including water, heating, compressed air and steam
Desirable criteria
- A wide knowledge of plant and equipment used within a building services environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sue Bennett
- Job title
- Estates Helpdesk & Mobility Engineering Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 294827
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