University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)
We have a fantastic opportunity for you to assist our hospitals as a Mechanical Craftsperson, supporting our busy Estates team. You will be assisting with a wide range of planned preventative maintenance and reactive calls.
To work as a part of the wider Estates team to achieve site-wide engineering compliance, maintaining all building systems and achieving the wider strategic aims as set out by the site Head of Estates.
We offer extensive training and development opportunities, with access to courses and certifications to help advance your career, alongside a comprehensive benefits package including the NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave, and health and wellbeing programs. You can also earn additional income if you qualify to participate in the on-call rota, increasing your earning potential.
This is a great opportunity to grow professionally while contributing to something truly meaningful.
Before applying for the position, please review the job description and person specifications to ensure your qualifications and experience meet the required criteria.
Note in advance:
The interviews will be held in person and a workplace-based assessment may be required.
Main duties of the job
* To maintain and repair a very wide range of plumbing, mechanical, and plant equipment and services.
* Deal with major incidents such as large water leaks, ingress of rainwater, and blocked drainage in critical areas.
* Unblock drains, roof gullies, guttering, down pipes, lavatory pans, urinals, macerators, basin wastes, and waste disposal machines.
* Carry out plumbing and mechanical pipework installations, including baths, showers, basins, etc.
* Attend to and resolve a loss of heating/cooling, hot and cold water services, and medical gases to critical areas.
* Assist to motivate, train, and develop the apprenticeship scheme.
About us
At UHSussex, diversity is our strength, and we want you to feel included to help us always put the patient first. Your uniqueness and experiences will be part of our creative and innovative community where everyone is encouraged to succeed. We have a range of staff networks to help break down barriers and can offer a buddy to help new members settle in. We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) and a Veteran Aware Trust.
We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We're here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in our Wellbeing Programme for staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it, including where possible, flexible working to support work-life balance.
As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching, and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career, we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do.
We look forward to receiving your application and the start of your journey with UHSussex.
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
* Carrying out planned preventative maintenance, new work, and repair of plumbing/mechanical plant & equipment.
* Plumbing, including showers, baths, basins, sinks, lavatories, macerators, waste disposals, etc.
* Low Temperature Hot Water Plant.
* Heating & Ventilation Systems.
* Air-conditioning Systems.
* Calorifiers and Hot Water Systems.
* Carry out plumbing/fitting installations and alterations.
* Medical Equipment.
* Medical Gas plant and Equipment.
* Environmental Computer controlled systems.
* To develop and maintain good working relationships with clinicians, departmental heads, risk management, statutory regulators, external consultants, and contractors.
* To ensure team communication is cascaded to all areas of the Estates Department.
* To assist the Development Team in the implementation of major services shutdowns and commissioning arrangements for new developments and in hand-over procedures for the engineering systems.
* Complex fault diagnosis skills required, interpreting technical issues and formulating technical solutions to improve performance and maintain the service.
* Understand and sympathise with issues relating to clinical staff where Estates works have an impact on clinical areas.
* Plan work so that it can be carried out in a safe manner.
Person Specification
Experience and Qualification
* Completed and passed a formal apprenticeship City & Guilds or NVQ level 3.
* Previous experience as Maintenance Craftsman.
Skills
* Provide and receive routine information to inform work colleagues, patients, clients.
* Communicates technical issues to maintenance staff and explains technical issues to other staff and patients.
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
* Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles (as appropriate to role).
* Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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