Electrician Technician - Estates Maintenance

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mileage allowance

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting an Electrician Technician to maintain and install building services across Trust sites, with minimum supervision and a focus on reliability.

The role requires an electrical background, on-call duties (1 in 5 weeks) and the ability to travel between hospital sites. A mileage allowance is paid if using your own vehicle, and staff are encouraged to work flexibly where service needs allow.

Qualifications

• Electrical background essential.
• Experience with building services in healthcare is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and repairing faults on healthcare building services including hot water boilers, sterilizers, washer disinfectors, electrical distribution, motors, heating and ventilating plant and controls, fire and nurse call systems; perform planned preventive maintenance.
• Order engineering spares, materials and equipment needed to undertake the works.
• Understand working layout and operation of healthcare Building Services including engineering, plumbing and electrical systems and instruct others on maintenance and inspection.
• Travel between hospital sites; mileage allowance paid for own vehicle.
• Pass on knowledge to others.

Skills

Electrical background

Job description

We are recruiting for an Electrician Technician who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a technician with an electrical background and will conduct, with minimum supervision, maintenance and installation work on all facilities, plant, and equipment throughout East and North Herts NHS Teaching Trust.

They will provide reliable technical engineering advice and support for the maintenance of equipment, fabric, and utility services for the trust.

This role will involve an On Call rota of 1 in 5 weeks.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and repairing faults on Healthcare Building Services which includes the following equipment: hot water boilers, sterilizers, washer disinfectors, electrical distribution services, motors, heating and ventilating plant and controls, fire, nurse call and panic/intruder alarms, heating and ventilating plant and controls and carry out planned preventive maintenance tasks on the said equipment.
• To be responsible for ordering engineering spares, materials and equipment needed to undertake the works.
• To understand the working layout and operation of healthcare Building Services including engineering, plumbing and electrical systems on all the Trust's properties and instruct others on maintenance and inspection.
• To be able to travel between various hospital sites. A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility if own vehicle is used.
• To deal with new situations as they arise and pass on knowledge to others.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

Hospitals

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

Benefits

• A mileage allowance will be paid for this facility if own vehicle is used.
• We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ceri Harris Job title: Business Systems Manager Email address: [e-mail]