After-Hours Hospital Maintenance Technician

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

The Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a multi-craft/maintenance role at the Blackpool site and associated estates. The post involves shift work from 4 pm to midnight and nights, with weekend hours as described, and working with the Estates team to maintain hospital plant and services.

You will undertake planned and reactive maintenance, support junior staff, and record readings while following CAFM procedures to ensure safe, reliable engineering and patient care

Responsibilities

• Carry out maintenance work at premises within Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre areas as well as organisations with Atlas contracts.
• Maintain ventilation systems, lift maintenance inspections, and medical gas system inspections.
• Respond to the shift maintenance bleep system and address situations accordingly.
• Support higher skilled grades across the Estates Department on maintenance work and repairs.
• Undertake unsupervised minor repairs appropriate to training/experience.
• Assist with testing of fire alarms, hot water temperature checks, and lamp changes.
• Record meter readings monthly and interpret any abnormalities.
• Maintain a safe working environment in workshops and engineering plant rooms.
• Record work information for CAFM management system.
• Occasionally work overtime at short notice.
• Undertake other work as required by Estates Supervisor/Estates Officer.

Job description

The Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a multi-craft/maintenance role at the Blackpool site and associated estates. The post involves shift work from 4 pm to midnight and nights, with weekend hours as described, and working with the Estates team to maintain hospital plant and services.

You will undertake planned and reactive maintenance, support junior staff, and record readings while following CAFM procedures to ensure safe, reliable engineering and patient care