Maintenance Skilled Tradesperson (Mechanical)

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Nest Pension with up to 8% employer 2

Job summary

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Maintenance Skilled Tradesperson (Mechanical) to join the Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd estates team. You will perform plumbing, heating and ventilation maintenance, and support on-call duties as required, ensuring safe, compliant service delivery for hospital facilities.

You will be involved in multiple workshops, liaising with hospital staff and external clients, with opportunities for training and professional

Qualifications

• NVQ3 in Plumbing/Heating or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
• Significant post-qualification training in plumbing, heating, ventilation or medical gas.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out plumbing, heating and ventilation Planned Preventative Maintenance and reactive work in line with industry best practise and statutory requirements.
• Willing to train to operate boiler house and hydrotherapy pool tasks.
• Supervising junior staff and ensuring safe, compliant work practices.

Skills

Read engineering drawings

Use hand & power tools

Learn new skills quickly

Understand installation standards

Education

NVQ3 in Plumbing/Heating

CPD evidence

Significant post-qualification training

Tools

Computer Aided Facilities Management software

Job description

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Maintenance Skilled Tradesperson (Mechanical)

The closing date is 23 November 2026

We are looking for a Skilled Tradesperson with a background in heating and/or plumbing to join the Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd estates team to work within our mechanical team in the estates workshop. The workshop provides a maintenance service to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and external clients. You will need to demonstrate strong team working skills; have good experience of working in a maintenance role and be comfortable in working to targets and working on your own.

The post-holder will be required to work on the tradesperson on‑call rota for which additional payments will be made on top of the stated salary.

The post-holder will be required to support the building and electrical workshops as required and within the capabilities of their skills.

Nest Pension with up to 8% employer contributions making it one of the most generous private sector pensions.

Main duties of the job

Completing all plumbing, heating and ventilation Planned Preventative Maintenance and reactive work in accordance with industry best practise and statutory requirements.Willing to undertake training as required to be appointed as a boiler house operator.Willing to undertake training as required to carry out work on the hospital's hydrotherapy pool.Able to undertake cross discipline work that typically falls under building and electrical trades such as safe isolation from a rotary isolator, boarding up of a broken window when on‑call, careful replacement of faulty locks etc.Ensuring that all work is carried out in a manner that complies with all Health and Safety legislation, HTMs and other relevant codes of practise and policies.To have awareness of relevant standards affecting installation work and to recognise where knowledge may be insufficient, and advice needs to be sought.Effectively supervising more junior staff whilst working on jobs.Delivering good customer service and able to always act as an ambassador for DSFS.

Contributing to the estates on‑call rota as required.Ensuring that the estates department delivers to its customers a service that is responsive, reliable and meets statutory and mandatory requirements. Our key customers include Chesterfield Royal Hospital and offsite locations such as GP surgeries, community clinics etc.

Dealing with any other duties as may reasonably be required - this job description should not be considered an exhaustive list.

About us

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that's 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just under 1000 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the 'Chesterfield Royal family', DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that's dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone's abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Job responsibilities

For details of this exciting role, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

• NVQ3 in a Plumbing/Heating (or equivalent experience).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant post qualification training in plumbing, heating, ventilation or medical gas.

Experience

• Able to demonstrate significant experience in working with commercial heating, plumbing and ventilation systems, both in terms of maintenance and installation work.
• Experience of working as part of a team, supervising personnel when required.
• Experience of using Computer Aided Facilities Management software to manage and complete jobs.
• Experience working as a Medical Gas, Ventilation or Water Competent Person.
• Significant heating and or plumbing experience

Skills & Knowledge

• Able to utilise trade background to quickly learn new skills.
• Able to source information to understand how to correctly install materials and carry out installation work.
• Knowledgeable with regards to the statutory requirements that apply to installation work and able to find relevant information in documents when required.
• Able to use hand and power tools to produce work to an excellent standard.
• Able to read and understand engineering drawings within area of expertise.

Personal Attributes

• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and able to determine priorities and achieve them using initiative and with minimal external input.
• Able to communicate effectively with customers in other departments and with hospital and RPC colleagues.
• Committed to continuous improvement and learning.
• Able to operate with high integrity in the work environment.
• Flexible and able to adapt to change quickly.
• Able to work tactfully to resolve difficult conversations or matters.

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.

Employer name

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£27,343 to £34,616 a yearpro rata per annum