Estates Maintenance Assistant Band 3

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Boston; Presencial; GBP 26.000 - 27.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) is seeking a Maintenance Assistant based at Pilgrim Hospital to join the Estates maintenance team. You will help deliver safe, cost-effective maintenance across the site, supporting hospital operations and patient care.

The role covers reactive and planned maintenance, basic electrical and plumbing tasks, ventilation and lighting works, and collaboration with housekeeping and other teams.

Formación

• Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2 or equivalent in an Engineering related discipline.
• Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training or equivalent
• Demonstratable extensive experience of basic maintenance in a similar size organisation

Responsabilidades

• General reactive and planned maintenance both internally and external to the site.
• Basic Lighting, sockets and small power circuits repairs.
• Emergency Lighting testing and checks.
• Passenger Lift Entrapment release.
• Basic Repairs and Maintenance of Ventilation systems.
• Basic plumbing repairs and maintenance.

Educación

City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2 or equivalent in an Engineering related discipline

Hospital Engineering related certified training or equivalent

Demonstrated extensive experience of basic maintenance in a similar size organisation

Descripción del empleo

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are seeking a highly motivated Maintenance Assistant who will be based at Pilgrim Hospital. The post holder is required to play a proactive part within the Estates maintenance team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.

There is no better time to join the team at ULHT, we are developing our operational Estates Team in order to support the Trust on its continuous development plan, our aims and ambitions are set high and we want you to be part of the developing journey with us.

Do you have the ambition to make your hospital a better place for the community? Do you have the passion about Engineering and Building Maintenance. Do you want to learn new skills, in which some areas are only specialist in the Healthcare,

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

• General reactive and planned maintenance both internally and external to the site
• Basic Lighting, sockets and small power circuits repairs
• Emergency Lighting testing and checks
• Passenger Lift Entrapment release
• Basic Repairs and Maintenance of Ventilation systems
• Basic plumbing repairs and maintenance
• Unblocking foul water and surface water drainage systems
• Grounds & Gardens maintenance including litter picking, snow clearing, gritting, grass and hedge cutting, tree maintenance, road sweeping, emptying bins, signage repairs, line marking and painting
• General building fabric maintenance such as basic painting, decorating, window repairs, flooring and joinery repairs
• Any other activity deemed appropriate for skill and competency level
• Assisting Housekeeping teams undertake their duties such as removing vent grills to allow suitable cleaning etc
• General Maintenance of Beds and Wheelchairs

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Person Specification

Qualifications (Academic, Professional & Vocational)

• Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ2 or equivalent in an Engineering related discipline
• Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training or equivalent
• Demonstratable extensive experience of basic maintenance in a similar size organisation

Previous Experience (Nature & Level)

• Experience in the maintenance of buildings, electrical and mechanical plant and services, and grounds and gardens.
• Experience of maintenance in a hospital environment. In particular: Air conditioning, refrigeration, fire alarms, building maintenance, electrical and or mechanical specific experience

Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes

• Good understanding of general regulations, and associated safety procedures
• Able to work safely and have knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues
• Ability to work with minimum of guidance
• Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
• Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
• Be able to work within a pressured environment
• Evidence of self-advancement
• Able to act efficiently taking a 'hands on' role in an emergency
• Imaginative outlook
• Work on own initiative
• Confident.
• Management of contractors
• Experience of working in a large organisation
• Experienced in working with safe systems of work process and permits to work

Specific Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills.
• Versatile and flexible in approach.
• Able to cross site travel
• Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
• Must have full driving licence for cars to enable use of Trust vehicles
• Ability to undertake the physical duties of the role
• Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
• Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
• Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
• Imaginative outlook.
• Work on own initiative.
• Confident
• Able to cross site travel
• Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
• Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
• Must have full driving licence for cars to enable use of Trust vehicles and have the ability to attend site and across site working .

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.

£25,760 to £27,476 a yearper annum, pro rata