Employer Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Salisbury District Hospital
Town Salisbury
Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata if part time
Salary period Yearly
Closing 28/02/2025 23:59
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for an Estates Mechanical Technician - Water to join our busy, hardworking estates team.
As an Estates Mechanical Technician you will assist the Senior Estates Officer (Operations) and be responsible for assisting in the provision of a high quality, efficient, responsive, flexible & effective estates service.
You will plan, manage and deliver PPM’s in relation to Water Safety, ensuring action plans are developed and delivered in relation to all incidents related to water safety e.g., system temperature excursions, elevated counts.
Main duties of the job
To be part of the Estates escalation process and assist other estate staff at all levels with technical works and technical problem solving where requested, including the supervision of Estates Trade Staff teams and contractors as appropriate. There is a requirement to participate in Estates on-call rota to ensure that emergencies and major problems occurring out of hours are attended and resolved.
To carry out inspections, tests, repairs, installations, as directed on Trust property, plant and infrastructure reporting any faults found.
To undertake work as identified on allocated works dockets, completing the works and updating the Trust CAFM system in a timely manner. Organising and coordinating your own workload, and manage assigned trade staff work load as required.
Carry out duties and apply specialist skills in at least one of the following areas:
• Water Safety (core role)
• Ventilation / HVAC
• Building Management Systems
Learn new techniques to develop your own skills as appropriate to ensure that the most effective methods are used in the course of your work, demonstrating your own activities to new or less experienced employees, providing advice, training and technical support.
Deal with major incidents such as loss of services to critical areas, loss of medical gas to critical areas, loss of heating and hot water services to critical areas. Providing emergency assistance to the PFI Facilities Provider and other contracted services when required.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we’re driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated “Good” by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
* HND in Mechanical or Electrical or Electronic engineering or Construction
* Experience of working within, and developing a ‘safe system of work’
* Experience supervising and leading other members of your team.
* Knowledge of the application of: Health and Safety legislation, ACOPs, guidance and rules, NHS technical standards (e.g. Health Technical Memoranda) and Trust policies, basic life support and emergency aid and where required a readiness to train.
* Skill in maintenance, fault finding and diagnostic procedures, test & repair work on a very wide range of complex engineering services & equipment, with the ability to work unassisted in varying, often technical environments whilst complying with Health & Safety / environmental regulations and standards.
* Commitment to customer care.
* Ability to be part of an out of hours on call rota.
* IT literacy or willing to train to ECDL level 2 standard (use of Microsoft Office suite). Knowledge of/readiness to undertake training on and use of the Trust’s computer based asset and condition based maintenance management system.
* Ability to Plan and organise in coordination with contractors unsupervised routine and complex maintenance, analysis, solution finding and repair work.
* Ability to make sound judgements with regard to operational safety when in lone worker situation or when put under pressure by the situation or other workers.
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
* Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
* Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
* An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
* Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
* Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
* An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
* Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
* Cycle to work scheme
* Uniform provided (where required)
* On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
* On site health and fitness club
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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