Main area Estates Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The role includes on-call duties, occasional overtime and a return to work commitment for unplanned works) Job ref 357-PR-1756-24
Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Pilgrim Hospital Town Boston Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 12/01/2025 23:59
Maintenance Craftsperson Plumber - Band 4
Job overview
Your Hospitals Need You! Not all superheroes wear capes, some are even Hospital Engineers.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are seeking a highly motivated Estates Craftsperson (Mechanical/ Plumbing Bias) who will be based at Pilgrim Hospital. The post holder is required to play a proactive part within the Estates team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.
Post will commence after April 2025
Main duties of the job
* Ensure that maintenance activities are effectively recorded, signed and dated appropriately and evidence based.
* Support and encourage multi-disciplinary working.
* Encourage team working in all aspects of team focused department performance.
* Provide a role model for others to emulate, working alongside colleagues and exhibiting high standards of professional behaviour.
* Challenge traditional practice, seeking improved methods of task delivery which improve quality, safety and working practices.
* Carry out duties in a safe, clean and effective way in accordance with Trust Policies, Procedures, Legislative guidance, and best industry practice.
* Support the development of team roles through mentoring and shadowing, allowing the teams to learn from your skills.
* Maintain accurate records for reactive and planned activities.
* Work on own initiative, to act independently and seek advice as necessary within the parameters of the expected work activities able to plan, organise and manage own work activities.
* Comply with relevant policies, guidance and statutory regulations.
* Able to work to agreed timescales.
* Able to drive and have a Valid full UK driving License or applicable UK approved Driving License.
Person specification
Specific Requirements
* Good interpersonal skills
* Versatile and flexible in approach
* Physically fit
* Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
* Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
* Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
* Able to cross site travel
* Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
* Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
* Must have full UK driving licence for cars and access to own vehicle for work attendance
* Confident
* Imaginative outlook
Qualifications
* Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ3 or equivalent in an Engineering/ Plumbing related discipline
* Served an apprenticeship or other recognised training.
* Focused training such as Anglian Water Approved Plumber, Air Conditioning or chilled water systems training and experience.
* Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training
Previous Experience
* Experience in the maintenance of mechanical and electrical plant and services and fault finding within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation
* Experience of working in a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation
* Appreciation of other maintenance services
* Experience of maintenance in a hospital environment. In particular: Air conditioning, refrigeration, Plate Heat Exchangers, Calorifiers, Water Storage systems, Steam Boilers
* Good understanding of electrical regulations, and associated safety procedures
* Able to diagnose faults in complicated engineering and building plant and equipment
* Able to work safely and have a sound knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
* Demonstrable problem-solving skills
* Work co-operatively with colleagues
* Ability to work with minimum of guidance
* Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
* Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
* Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
* Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
* Be able to work within a pressured environment
* Evidence of self-advancement
* Able to act efficiently taking a ‘hands on’ role in an emergency
* Imaginative outlook
* Work on own initiative
* Confident
* Management of contractors
* Experience of working in a large organisation
* Experienced in working with safe systems of work process and permits to work
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