Estates Multi-Skilled Craftsperson

Sussexcommunity; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading community health service as a Multi Skilled Craftsperson, where you'll maintain and improve facilities, ensuring a safe environment for patients and staff. This role offers flexibility in location and access to excellent NHS benefits, including training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Excellent training and development opportunities

Cost-effective workplace nurseries

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent with significant experience.
• Gas safe registration and experience with security systems and nurse call systems.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned, reactive, and preventative maintenance tasks.
• Respond to emergency breakdowns and ensure swift resolution.
• Participate in an on-call rota and provide out-of-hours support.

Skills

Problem Solving

IT Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Time Management

Education

Degree Level Mechanical Engineering

Gas Safe Registration

MGPS

Job description

Are you a hands-on problem solver with a passion for fixing, maintaining, and improving the environment around you? We're looking for a Multi Skilled Craftsperson to join our dedicated Estates team at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust.

In this varied and rewarding role, you'll use your skills and creativity to keep our buildings and facilities running smoothly--making a real difference for patients and staff across our community health services. If you're ready to apply your knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, and general maintenance in a role that offers both challenge and purpose, this could be the opportunity for you.You'll work in a supportive and friendly environment, with access to training, great NHS benefits, and the chance to contribute to meaningful work every day.

This vacancy offers flexibility to be based at eitherBognor Regis War Memorial HospitalorBrighton General Hospital, giving you the choice of location that works best for you.

Main duties of the job

Carry out planned, reactive, and preventative maintenance tasks across a range of Trust buildings, with a focus on carpentry, plumbing, and general repairs.

Respond to emergency breakdowns and ensure swift resolution to minimise disruption to services.

Undertake minor installation and improvement projects to enhance the safety and quality of our facilities.

Work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, liaising with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to prioritise tasks.

Ensure all work complies with relevant safety and compliance regulations, including health & safety standards.

Participate in an on-call rota and provide occasional out-of-hours support as required.

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Job responsibilities

For a comprehensive overview of the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Please note: Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules, this role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered. Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk websitebefore applying to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or professional registration

• Degree Level Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering or Building/Construction or equivalent vocational qualification with significant experience.
• Gas safe registration commercial
• MGPS (Medical Gases)

Experience

• To be able to work on security systems, comprising of door access, security tagging systems, intercom, BMS and CCTV across the Trust sites.
• To be able to work on nurse call systems
• To be able to work on fire alarm systems, to include scheduled maintenance for device testing, as well as overseeing the trusts monitoring system for trust wide.
• Carry out specialist installations and repairs on power, lighting, nurse call systems and intruder alarms BMS, including any programming that may be required.
• Carry out maintenance repair on power standby plant such as generators and UPS and be able to safely isolate from generators or local network in the event of a malfunction.
• To be conversant with and work on inverter drives and soft start systems.

Skills and knowledge

• The postholder must possess good IT skills
• To be conversant with domestic hot water, mains cold water, plumbing, high temperature hot water heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and heating systems.
• To be fully conversant with all types of pumps, circulation systems, belt drives, pulleys and direct drive systems.
• To be conversant with chemical dosing systems and water treatment plants and be aware of the latest Legionellae guidance.
• Replacing and repairing of Mechanical plant, e.g. fans, filters, condensate equipment, and plate heat exchangers.
• Carry out maintenance checks, tests and adjust for optimum performance on plant such as boilers, control systems.
• Design, install and test any electrical installation work as and when required and be able to diagnose and repair faults on these systems maintaining compliance with the IET Wiring Regulations for Electrical Installations (BS7671).
• To work on, diagnose faults and repair medical oil free and reciprocating control air compressors and vacuum plant (with relevant training and approval).
• To carry out electrical/building work, to a limited extent or assist where it is associated with mechanical installations (with relevant training and approval).
• In conjunction with Estates Management investigate the use of energy saving devices and methods and report back on issues arising.
• To be able to carry out inspections to fire dampers, test and inspect condition
• Work closely with Estates Management to manage the buildings infrastructure and systems effectively and safely in accordance with all legislation and HTM and HBN guidance.
• Carry out ironmongery repairs.
• Carry out repairs to fire doors, and other safety critical building items.
• To be able to carry out fire door inspections and carry out remedial repairs.

Other requirements

• Ability to work autonomously and be part of a team.
• To be prepared to participate in the Estates Out of Hours on-call rota.
• Access to own vehicle for work purposes.
• Reliable
• Ability to use own initiative and organise own workload.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good time management and organisational Skills
• Diplomatic, flexible and politically sensitive approach to work
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and Trust
• Commitment to personal development

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.