Estates Maintenance Craftsperson Carpenter Joiner - Grimsby (Band 4) - Estates - Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust – Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire
The Estates department at the Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby has an exciting opportunity for an individual to join the onsite maintenance team.
The Estates team is a support service vital to the smooth running of the hospital. The team works behind the scenes to keep the hospital operational. The working environment is very diverse, and the equipment is highly specialised and unique to healthcare. No two days are alike, and when you work within an acute hospital setting knowing that you have contributed to maintaining a positive patient environment is very rewarding.
This role is diverse. The nature of the work could see you playing a key safety role maintaining fire doors, windows, roofing, facias, soffits as well as carrying out first fix joinery and 2nd fix carpentry. The role also supports our other trades and craftspersons maintaining our building services infrastructure. The estate is significant, and your skills & knowledge will be utilised in assisting with the upkeep and maintenance of complex water systems, specialised heating, refrigeration & ventilation systems, complicated drainage and waste systems and specialised plant and equipment areas.
A Maintenance Craftsperson Carpenter / Joiner position plays a key role within the Estates Engineering Maintenance Services. The post supports the wider maintenance team in the delivery of maintenance programmes that will contribute to a safe, cost-effective, efficient, and compliant hospital site.
The post holder will undertake works relating to the maintenance and repairs of Trust properties, equipment, grounds & gardens ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, health technical memorandum’s, trust policies and procedures to ensure a clean, safe and functional environment for patients, public and staff to support the delivery of patient care. The post also holds a significant patient, staff and visitor safety function maintaining the sites vast fire door and window asset portfolio. This post has an additional pay element through on-call support overnight and at weekends on a rota basis throughout the year and particularly during the winter months when de-icing and snow clearing is required.
The NHS has definitive career progression pathways, training opportunities, with career advancement. There are various ways to continuously develop you and your career along with a great work-life balance, teamwork and working to support your local hospital. In addition to this you will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, access to an excellent pension scheme, staff benefits including staff discount and lottery schemes.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
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