Building Fabrication Craftsperson

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in London seeks a skilled Building Fabrication Craftsperson to join its Estates team. This role involves conducting repairs and maintenance across various healthcare facilities, ensuring safety, compliance, and high standards. Ideal candidates will possess experience in carpentry, painting, and maintenance, along with relevant qualifications. The position requires a proactive team player willing to participate in emergency on-call duties. The opportunity focuses on delivering excellent service to support patient care throughout the Trust's sites.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Inclusive workplace environment

Qualifications

• Must have proven post-qualification experience in a complex building services environment.
• Experience in NHS hospital settings or similar establishments is desirable.
• Knowledge of H&S legislation, including COSHH and HTMs.

Responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of painting, decorating, and maintenance tasks.
• Carry out statutory and planned maintenance as per regulations.
• Deliver immediate and effective repairs to the building fabric.

Skills

Carpentry

Painting and Decorating

Plastering

Problem-solving skills

Ability to work across multiple sites

Education

Recognised Apprenticeship (City & Guild 236/NVQ level 3 or equivalent)

Building Fabrication ONC/HNC or equivalent

Tools

Woodworking machinery

Hand tools

Job description

The Estates Hard FM Team plays a vital role in ensuring our hospitals remain safe, compliant, and fit for purpose. We are responsible for the delivery of day-to-day repairs, planned preventative maintenance (PPM), and operational testing across a wide range of building services and equipment throughout the Trust.

We are seeking a highly motivated and versatile Building Fabrication Craftsperson to join our multi-skilled Estates team at Mile End Hospital and Royal London Hospital Retained Estate, providing essential operational maintenance services across the Trust's hospitals and associated sites.

What we're looking for

A flexible and proactive team player with a strong trade background in carpentry and building fabric maintenance, complemented by experience in painting, decorating, and plastering.

Ability to work across multiple sites, demonstrating problem-solving skills, initiative, and a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards.

Willingness to participate in the Estates emergency on-call rota, which includes out-of-hours cover across all Barts Health NHS Trust sites.

This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled tradesperson who takes pride in their work and wishes to make a meaningful contribution to the upkeep and improvement of healthcare environments.

Main duties of the job

This is a varied and rewarding role requiring a strong background in building trades, ideally supported by a recognised carpentry/building services apprenticeship (or equivalent), along with proven post-qualification experience in a complex building services environment.

Key responsibilities will include:

Undertaking a wide range of painting and decorating tasks, including internal and external painting, wallpaper hanging, plastering, patch repairs, surface preparation, and finishing to a high standard.

Carrying out statutory and planned maintenance to ensure compliance with HTMs, HBNs, Health & Safety regulations, ACOPs, and Trust policies.

Skilled use of woodworking machinery and hand tools for the manufacture and repair of windows, doors, and access frames.

Installation of stud partitioning, ceilings, and other building fabric structures.

Maintenance and repair of building elements and associated equipment using timber, laminates, plastics, composites, and other suitable materials.

Delivering safe, immediate, and effective repairs to the building fabric with minimal supervision, while adhering to statutory obligations and operational specifications.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world‑class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high‑performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm‑free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To have served a recognised Apprenticeship. (To City & Guild 236/NVQ level 3 standard/ BTEC/ONC or equivalent).
• Qualified with Building Fabrication ONC/HNC and or HND level of education and or equivalent qualification.
• Competent Person Confined Space Certificate, as defined by the latest HSE Confined Spaces Regulation.

Experience

• In-depth relevant experience of NHS hospital environment or similar establishments.
• Experience of building maintenance and systems.
• Experience to follow detailed building drawings and specifications.
• In depth experience of healthcare building fabrication services and to lead on the maintenance of the building fabrication team.
• Detailed working knowledge of preventative and reactive building fabrication maintenance and associated HTM.
• Experience of lone working.
• Knowledge of information systems for the management of maintenance activity (Concept CAFM System).
• Experience of successfully leading a building fabrication team and contractors to meet agreed outcomes.
• Understanding Standing Financial Instructions in relation to procurement and commissioning of external contracting services.

Knowledge

• Good knowledge of H&S Legislation and some knowledge of COSHH.
• Working knowledge of H&S Legislation and hospital specifics (HTM's).
• Knowledge of Access Control Systems.
• Able to use IT for reporting and maintaining records.
• Ability to communicate in written and oral form.
• Knowledge of hospital Health Building Notifications (HBN).

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.