Estates Carpenter/Building Technician

jobs24.co.uk; Banbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a motivated individual to join their team in Banbury. This role involves undertaking both reactive and planned carpentry maintenance across various sites, ensuring compliance with safety standards and delivering high-quality workmanship. The successful candidate will prioritize work that impacts patient experience and contribute to the development of the Trust's Estates plans. If you have a passion for carpentry and the ability to work under pressure, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a difference in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance carpentry with a focus on high standards.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Support and undertake building trades operations and maintenance work.
• Plan and supervise maintenance works, ensuring compliance with standards.

Skills

Carpentry

Health and Safety Legislation knowledge

Problem-solving

Time management

Education

City and Guilds Crafts Certificate or equivalent

Job description

The primary purpose of this role is to professionally support and undertake Building trades operations and maintenance work across the Trust's sites as directed by line management. This includes activities that may be demanding and/or non-routine, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards, policies and procedures. Assist with the management and implementation of the planned engineering/building maintenance programmes for the Trust to ensure compliance with key standards, both legislative and performance related (as defined through Service Level Agreement) - also meeting where necessary the requirements of the NHSLA.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in accordance with the requirements of HTM's, HBN's, British Standards, Model Specifications and all Statutory Regulations, Codes of Practice and Trust Policies and Procedures, identifying and proposing changes for own work area to the Building Team Leader.
• Prioritise work requirements on essential facilities which could have a direct detrimental impact on the patient experience e.g. nurse call handsets, patient toilets/wash facilities and patient beds. The role involves prioritising and being able to react to changing workloads.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and review of the Trust's Estates plans and work closely with the other Estates Managers/team Leaders in the development of works programmes.
• Assist with the set up and Implementation/management of the Estates safe systems of work (e.g. Permit to Work, isolation procedures) under the guidance of AP's to ensure that all safe systems of work are carried out correctly.
• Plan maintenance works, including liaison with users and contractors.
• Supervise maintenance assistants and operational estates contractors, allocating tasks/re-prioritising where necessary, and ensuring the quality of specification and workmanship.
• Liaise with the Estates Helpdesk when receiving emergency works and service complaints.
• Act on own initiative and advise senior staff of implications of technical issues when attending site on call out.

The Estates and Facilities Management Directorate is seeking to recruit a highly motivated individual to undertake both reactive and planned maintenance Carpentry works across the Trust's sites and ensuring a high standard is achieved. The successful applicant will be expected to carry out all types of carpentry work such as doors, linings, frames and furniture etc. A City and Guilds Crafts Certificate or equivalent is required and you must have training within a maintenance carpentry role. You should be capable of working under pressure to tight deadlines, prove solutions using own initiative, have knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation and its applications.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.