Maintenance Support Worker - Water

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; Harefield; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a Maintenance Craftsperson to support various maintenance tasks at Harefield Hospital. This role encompasses routine maintenance, assisting trades, and learning essential skills. It offers an opportunity to join a respected healthcare provider committed to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Several months on the job training or part qualified.
• Experience required to do the job based on previous employment.

Responsibilities

• Assist Maintenance Craftsperson’s in duties as instructed by the Maintenance Supervisor.
• Undertake routine maintenance and minor repair work across all trades.
• Maintain workshops and keep surrounding areas clean.

Skills

Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems

Operate electrical and mechanical equipment

Good understanding of P.P.E.

Education

G.C.S.E. in relevant subjects

Job description

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Harefield Hospital Town Harefield Salary £29,176 - £30,225 per annum inc HCA (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/06/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

To assist Maintenance Craftsperson’s (in all disciplines) in such duties as instructed by the Maintenance Supervisor, working under the supervision of a Maintenance Craftsperson.

To undertake unsupervised routine maintenance and minor repair work across all trades that does not justify the attention of a fully qualified craftsperson, related to his/her training and/or experience.

Main duties of the job

a) To assist other trades as required by the Maintenance Supervisor.

b) To develop an understanding of the relationship of other craftsperson’s work in relationship to his/her own.

c) To learn trades skills and techniques, with training as necessary.

d) To use all relevant tools and equipment.

e) To maintain the workshops, stores, switch rooms, boiler houses and plant rooms and keep the surrounding areas clean and tidy as directed by Supervisor.

f) To learn new techniques, with training as necessary, to attend training courses as may be required.

g) To carry out Planned maintenance checks and remedial works which will cover a range of mechanical and electrical disciplines including water hygiene. To learn how to use the QFM linked iPad.

h) To carry out repairs to a wide range of building services equipment.

i) To report all defects on all items of equipment and any potential hazardous risks, to their Supervisor.

j) To perform other routine work including labouring as necessary.

k) To check stores and prepare list of items required.

l) To change air filters, clean ductwork and glass traps.

m) To unblock sinks, toilets and macerators.

n) To re-washer taps.

o) To change lamps and tubes.

p) To hang fixtures and fittings.

q) Attendance on contractors as directed by the Supervisor.

Working for our organisation

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung center in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment, and research

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· Provide and receive routine information to inform Work colleagues, clients and patients.

· Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)

· Provides general estates related advice.

· Follows policies in own role.

· Responsible for repair and maintenance of assets. Maintaining equipment, requisition spare parts, repair and maintenance of plumbing, lighting and other equipment.

· People management

· Demonstrates duties to new starters.

· Information management

· Process own work records. List parts required to complete the job. Use of Facilities management system software and emails.

· Research and development

· To assist other estates staff in continuous development of estates processes and equipment

Person specification

Qualifications

• Understands a range of work procedures. Knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems and tools, several months on the job training or part qualified.
• G.C.S.E. in relevant subjects.

Experience

• Experience required to do the job as well as knowledge gained in previous employment

Skills

• Operate electrical and mechanical equipment, take and record measurements.
• Good understanding of P.P.E.

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.

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