Maintenance Fitter

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is advertising a full-time Band 5 Maintenance Fitter role at Salford Royal Hospital. You will deliver a comprehensive mechanical service across wards and departments, ensuring adherence to safety standards and procedures.

The post involves maintenance, repairs and installations with minimal supervision within a multi‑disciplinary estate team. You will work across a wide range of equipment, from steam plant to medical gas systems and nurse call

Qualifications

• Maintenance/engineering background in mechanical building services.
• Ability to carry out maintenance, repairs and installation with minimal supervision.
• Experience with calibration, fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive mechanical service to all wards and departments in a multi‑disciplined environment.
• Act as Trust representative in the absence of Estates Officer/Supervisor when required.
• Work on a full range of estates building services equipment and systems including steam, medical gas, nurse call, fire detection, and HVAC controls.

Job description

We are pleased to advertise a full time, Band 5 Maintenance Fitter to work at Salford Royal Hospital which is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

You will provide a comprehensive mechanical service to all wards and departments in a multi-disciplined environment, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.

As a Maintenance Technician (Mechanical), you will have a mechanical or building services engineering background and will be able to carry out maintenance, repairs and installation with minimum supervision throughout estate. You will be expected to complete first fixes of other trades, for which suitable training for shall be provided to ensure an efficient service is provided to our Trust sites. You will also act as the Trust representative in the absence of the Estates Officer/Supervisor when requested to do so as and when the need arises by line management.

You will be working on the full range of estates building services equipment which require comparison of complex facts requiring analysis to resolve technical issues on multi-faceted equipment/situations many of which have a direct impact on patient safety and the built environment. You will be responsible for calibration, maintenance and fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment including steam raising plant and associated equipment, steam sterilisers, medical gas systems, nurse call systems, fire detection, building services controls, standby generator plant, heating and ventilation control systems and refrigeration and a range of other mechanical plant and equipment.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dave Emmens Job title: Estates Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 206 4501

Contact times are 0800-1600, Monday to Friday