Job summary
- Main area
- Maintenance
- Grade
- Grade B
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-AGHS6819543
- Employer
- AGH Solutions Ltd
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £26,351 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Estates Maintenance Assistant - GRADE B
Grade B
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
AGH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and provides Estates, Facilities and procurement services for the Trust.
We are looking for a Estates Maintenance Assistant to join our team.
We are looking for highly motivated and professional individuals capable of working well within our current Estates team.
Main duties of the job
To undertake, without supervision a variety of tasks which would include:-
- Lighting Checks
- Replacement of lighting tubes or bulbs
- Cleaning diffusers
- Fixing of notice boards, clocks, notices etc
- Replacement of damaged ceiling tiles
- Cleaning extract fans and ventilation grilles
- Replacement/re-fixing of toilet seats
- Replacement/re-fixing of hand/safety rails
- Inspection and first aid repairs to flooring
- Re-washering hot and cold water taps
- Temperature checks water services
- Care of curtain tracks, blinds etc
Assist Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineers and other staff groups in the repair, service and inspection of building, mechanical, electrical, associated systems. This would include plant and equipment in accordance with relevant legislative standards and operational procedures to ensure the fabric of the hospital to provide a safe environment for patients, public and staff.
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 NHS FT specifically
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standard of secondary education to GCSE level or better in Maths English and Craft Studies.
Desirable criteria
- Computer user and application skills
Skills & Competencies
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a flexible approach to problem solving and broad knowledge of the work requirements and patterns of other trades
- Able to use own initiative in relation to problem solving in order to resolve situations to a satisfactory conclusion
- Ability to work as an individual with a minimum of supervision or as part of a team.
Desirable criteria
- Has had some formal H&S training
- Has some form of formal qualification in a building service discipline
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate a reasonable knowledge of Health & Safety requirements in the workplace and how these should be applied in relation to particular tasks and situations
- Has knowledge with regard to the safe use of portable tools and access equipment and modern fixing techniques
Experience
Essential criteria
- To have recent relevant experience of working within a maintenance function aimed at ensuring the quality and standard of the built environment
- Able to substantiate at interview knowledge and experience in relation to the routine maintenance of building services and other relative experience claimed within the application form
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in a hospital\healthcare\care home environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Has a clean driving licence for a four wheeled vehicle and is able to drive to other trust properties when required
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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