University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
The Estates Department are looking for a carpenter to provide a comprehensive maintenance, repair and installation service of the buildings, grounds, engineering services and associated equipment throughout the Trust.
The appointed candidate will need to be flexible in their approach to their working hours and where they are working in the Trust.
Base Location: Poole Hospital but cross site working will be required.
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Date posted
05 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
153-CO03790-A
Job locations
Poole Hospital, Poole, BH15 2JB
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Other
* Full car manual driving license
Qualifications
* Apprenticeship in relevant core trade with a minimum of a City and Guilds with advanced certificate or BTEC, ONC in relevant building maintenance trade.
Experience
* Minimum 3 years experience in general building maintenance, outside core trade of painting/decorating, carpentry and joinery.
* Have a good understanding of their relationship to other trades.
* Experience of maintenance carpentry and building in a range of settings.
* Minimum 5 years experience working in a complex building maintenance environment.
* Basic electrical safety training to be able to fulfil duties without support of other trades.
* Understand the working of the mechanical and/or electrical/or plumbing and/or gas systems in NHS buildings.
* Experience working in Healthcare environments.
* Joinery ability.
Skills
* Ability to fulfil a requirement to interpret and work from all instructions, drawings and specifications appropriate to original trade without supervision.
* Ability to fulfil a requirement to set out new work or set up new production appropriate to original trade using relevant instruments and machinery without supervision.
* Familiar with hand, power tools and fixed machinery.
* Ability to diagnose and repair faults in basic electrical systems i.e. fire doors, lighting circuits, power circuits.
* Ability to support and assist engineering emergencies using own initiative.
* Ability to fit and maintain various locking systems.
Knowledge
* Health and safety training.
* Excellent knowledge of carpentry and joinery techniques.
* Basic electrical training.
* Environmental health and safety training.
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 details
Employer name
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Poole Hospital, Poole, BH15 2JB
Employer's website
https://www.uhd.nhs.uk/careers
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