City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE)
Formed in December 2013, CHoICE is the subsidiary company of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT). Working in partnership with the Trust, CHoICE provides a Managed Health Care Facility to facilitate patient care.
CHoICE delivers a range of services including both Hard and Soft FM, and it is the Hard FM element (Estates) that we are seeking to recruit. CHoICE currently delivers services across a number of premises within South Tyneside and Sunderland. We have a vacancy for a Mechanical Supervisor (South Tyneside based). The successful applicant will lead and supervise a highly motivated and experienced Mechanical team, offering an exciting opportunity for development and experience.
The Estates team provides a coordinated approach in delivering services in line with all statutory requirements, as well as delivering against Key Performance Indicators, by which CHoICE's effectiveness is measured and monitored. The workload is varied, challenging, and rewarding. Health Care premises have complex Building Services, which are managed and maintained to extremely high standards to deliver a suitable facility for providing health care. The satisfaction of supporting healthcare delivery cannot be understated.
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Main duties of the job
As Mechanical Supervisor, you will be required to lead and supervise maintenance staff and specialist contractors. You will need to plan, prioritize, and implement Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) as well as manage the team to support Reactive service requests.
PPM comes with obligations in terms of statutory requirements and contractual performance requirements (90%+). Similarly, response to Reactive requests, e.g., mechanical services breakdowns or requests, have performance requirements (90%+). Supported by a committed team of managers, these standards are currently attained and resourced to deliver against them.
Maintaining Clinical Service needs may require supporting overtime or working to suit access requirements. The team operates an Emergency On Call system to maintain support to patient care 24/7. The successful applicant will participate in the Emergency On Call (Engineer) rota as required.
To support the delivery of compliant systems, the applicant may need to be an Authorised Person (AP) in support of colleagues, with a Mechanical bias. AP roles are generally led by Estates Officers but supported by Supervisors. This offers an exciting opportunity for training and development, as well as experience working alongside Estates Officers.
About us
City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE - trading since 2014) is a wholly owned subsidiary company of South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust (STSFT). Based at Sunderland Royal Hospital, providing a full range of Facilities Management, Procurement, and Outpatient Pharmacy services. We employ around 650 staff in various functions, including cleaners, porters, engineers, procurement specialists, and pharmacists.
Commitment, Care, and Compassion - our Team contributes to the overall hospital environment, providing safe, secure, and comfortable facilities for access by patients, staff, and visitors. CHoICE is an exciting place to work that will provide you with an opportunity to grow and develop. We provide a range of benefits including a Fitness Centre (SRH), cycle to work scheme, and access to a Childcare Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements.
We welcome all applications regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity, particularly from under-represented groups.
Job responsibilities
To supervise, give engineering advice, and have overall responsibility for engineering maintenance at CHoICE managed properties with any combination of directly employed maintenance staff and contractors.
Authorised Person Mechanical and Pressure Systems (APMPS) ensuring high standards of safety at all times, including the supervision, management, and guiding of Skilled Persons (SPMPS).
Must be able to participate in the Engineering Management's Emergency On-call rota; training/site knowledge will be required ahead of participation.
To be responsible for the execution of allocated Minor New Works and small capital schemes as directed.
Participate in the annual estates stores stocktaking.
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE
Please note the Trust cannot offer Skilled Worker Sponsorship for this role as it does not meet the UKVI threshold requirements. Applicants are requested to consider this when making their application. Please visit Gov.UK for further information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Basic Numeracy & Literacy skills
* Knowledge & understanding of relevant engineering regulations and guidance
* BTEC ONC or City & Guilds Level 2 & 3
* Knowledge and experience of industrial mechanical systems
* Knowledge and experience of water and associated mechanical systems and the associated permit to work system
* Knowledge and experience of sterilisation (HTM01)
* Knowledge and experience of Legionella (HTM04)
Physical / Mental Abilities
* Highly developed accurate manual dexterity skills
* Logical thinker
* Ability to work on more than one project/task simultaneously
* Ability to adapt to the changing demands of the role
* Ability to develop & build effective team working and use own initiative
* Participate in Emergency On Call rota
* Ability to remain professional when faced with difficult situations
* Self-motivated, versatile, and flexible attitude to work
* Ability to work under pressure
Experience
* Completed a 4-year engineering/mechanical apprenticeship
* Significant post-apprenticeship experience in engineering
* Detailed knowledge of modern building services
* Knowledge of relevant H & S legislation gained through specialist training courses
* Certificate in Management Studies or equivalent
* Experience of NHS engineering
Skills
* Ability to cascade information to the internal and external customer
* Ability to manage & supervise tasks/working to deadlines
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.
Employer name
City Hospitals Independent Commercial Enterprises Ltd (CHoICE)
#J-18808-Ljbffr