Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Thomas'
Town: London
Salary: £31,944 - £34,937 inc HCA + overtime payment
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 08/05/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Job overview
The post holder will provide a mechanical service to the Engineering Department and other directorates within Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). They will demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by the engineering team.
Ability to organise and prioritise own workload where required and work unsupervised and independently.
The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.
Main duties of the job
* Carries out the responsibilities of a Certified Person (CP) for:
* Ventilation Systems
* Confined Spaces
* When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets
* Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
* Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with standby emergency generators and large industrial boiler plant, programmable logic controllers and other computerised building control systems
* Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment
* Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers
* Carries out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all of the Trust asset and engineering systems
* The duty holder (authorised person) takes responsibility for the engineering services on site whilst on duty.
* Deputises for the Team Manager in their absence
* Responsible for the personnel management when deputising for the team manager
Working for our organisation
Effective management and co-ordination of all non-clinical services, within the Essentia Directorate is crucial to the Trust functioning effectively, economically and safely. The Engineering Department’s management of engineering services plays a crucial contribution to this service provision. The role of the post holder within this crucial position is to carry out day to day maintenance of the engineering building services plant and equipment.
What We Offer
We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.
In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including:
* The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK.
* Interest free Season Ticket Loan
* Long Term Service Awards
* Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
* A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme
* Ride to work scheme
* Employee assistance programme
* Free stop smoking service
Our Trust values are Put patients first, Take pride in what we do, Respect others, Strive to be the best, Act with Integrity.
If you would like to join the team, please apply online.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management and Leadership
There is a regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects. i.e Electrical/Mechanical trade practices and other staff specialisms, i.e. decontamination, medical gases, welding etc.
* Coach and mentor for other junior staff, ie apprentices and maintenance assistant
Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust.
* Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.
Information Management
Make professional judgements involving a range of facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
* Produces engineering plant reports using computer software, including the management and storage/retrieval of information and records.
* Reviews all capital schemes with respect to compliance and maintainability.
* Communicates technical information with specialists and non-specialists.
* Communicates technical issues to non-clinical staff in emergency situations.
* Communicates instructions, directs, mentors and guides junior staff to support their personal development.
* Works from technical specifications and drawings associated with building services plant and equipment.
* Interprets and works from instructions, drawings and specifications without supervision.
* Carries out complicated analysis of test results to ascertain if the equipment meets its operating parameters during plant annual validations.
* Ensures all policies complied with and knowledge translated to the staff and monitored effectively.
* Implements revised or newly introduced operational procedures for plant and equipment.
Education and Professional Development
Undertake training as and when required to obtain, maintain and develop skills and knowledge base.
* Be able to learn and adapt to new techniques, embrace training and provide written and verbal instruction to staff and colleagues on all aspects of their work.
Note:
This job description is intended as an outline of the general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation.
* Staff may be asked to work reasonable additional hours (voluntary) and may be required to participate in an on-call rota (voluntary) which could necessitate them being asked to return to deal with emergency situations which could arise outside of normal working hours.
* This post will be Trust wide and may involve working on either site.
* Work independently when on-call throughout night and weekends. There is a requirement to act independently, deciding when to call independent contractors.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Recognised full apprenticeship in relevant trade / NVQ level 3 / BTEC national certificate or equivalent training.
* Demonstrable experience working within this trade.
* Certified person (CP) in their current trade or associated trade.
Experience
* Experience of working on a broad range of plant and services, including air / water / gas / steam and oil / heating and cooling plant.
* Able to communicate technical information to specialist and non-specialists.
* Has good experience in health and safety and the ability to lead on this.
* Has worked in a Hospital / health care environment before.
Skills
* Knowledge of other trades and ability to work with them.
* Excellent oral and communication skills.
* Proactive, versatile and problem solving.
* Experience with Microsoft Word / Excel and PowerPoint.
* Ability to evaluate the needs of other colleagues.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.
Your e-mail address is important to us - We communicate to all job applicants via the e-mail address which has been provided on the application form. Please ensure that you check your e-mail on a regular basis.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.
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