Maintenance Technician - Plumbing

NHS; Bedford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare facilities management provider seeks a Maintenance Technician - Plumbing based in Bedford. This role involves delivering building maintenance services across NHS properties, ensuring compliance with safety standards. Candidates should have NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing and a full UK driving licence. The position offers a salary starting from £39,000, plus on-call allowance, with 27 days holiday and additional benefits. The role requires addressing complex technical issues and maintaining accurate log books.

Benefits

On-Call allowance

Company van and tools

27 days holiday

Training and development opportunities

NHS Bluelight discounts

Qualifications

• Driving license is essential.
• Must be comfortable using technological devices to log jobs.
• Industry experience is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with NHS health, safety & wellbeing policies.
• Deliver scheduled, reactive, and remedial maintenance services.
• Maintain effective site log books at all premises.

Skills

BTEC City & Guilds plus relevant experience

NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing & Heating Engineering

Ability to assess technical issues

Education

NVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

Job description

The key function is to support NHS Property Services in delivering building services maintenance and repairs across the NHS to ensure buildings are maintained to the highest standards and to provide a safe and secure environment for visitors, customers, and employees.

Main duties of the job

Ensure compliance in line with all processes/procedures and policies that meets organisational standards/requirements including but not limited to our Health & Safety Policy/HTMs (Health Technical Memoranda) and SFG20. Ensuring new or revised policies are implemented within own work areas. Deliver planned and reactive maintenance services from the PPM planner, ensuring that operational standards are maintained at all times. Duties may include (but not limited to) fault finding, minors repairs or installations and maintaining services and equipment within critical environments. Ability to assess problems to determine the best course of action, this would include complex technical issues. To maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner. Work with and support the Projects/Construction team and Technical Supervisor in identifying, scoping, and delivering minor capital works for NHS premises. Able to plan and organise a number of complex activities and adapt within a changing and challenging work environment.

About us

Established in April 2013, the company is a limited company but also part of the wider NHS family. Having inherited responsibility for the facilities and property management functions previously managed by NHS primary care trusts and strategic health authorities, we own and run properties that range from listed buildings and former workhouses through to award-winning, state-of-the-art integrated health campuses. Our aim is to deliver a fit for purpose estate in partnership with NHS organisations, generating cost efficiencies that will benefit our tenants, patients and the wider health economy.

Job responsibilities

We have a great opportunity for a Maintenance Technician - Plumbing. This will be to join our team based in Bedford‑ Steppingley Hospital. The salary for this role is from £39,000 (depending on experience) plus on call allowance. This a permanent, full time position working 37.5 hours per week. Monday‑Friday 8am‑4.30pm. This is a mobile role covering Bedford & Milton Keynes.

• BTEC City & Guilds plus relevant experience and training.
• NVQ Level 3 in Plumbing & Heating Engineering or equivalent.
• Formal apprenticeship or craft trained equivalent.

Additional Requirements:

• Driving licence is essential.
• Must be comfortable using technological devices to log jobs.
• On‑Call availability.
• Desirable to have industry experience.
• Ability to work alone and/or as part of a wider team as this role will require you to work cohesively with other Technical Disciplines.
• Please note, DBS Checks & DVLA checks will be required for this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance in accordance with all NHSPS Health, Safety & Wellbeing Policies, relevant NHSPS Technical Guidance, Process and Procedures, Statutory Regulations, Approved Codes of Practice and any applicable aspects of HTMs.
• Ensure that new or revised practice and policies are implemented within own work areas.
• Deliver Scheduled, Reactive and Remedial maintenance services as directed by the PPM planner (CAFM), helpdesk or Technical Services Supervisor, ensuring that operational standards are always maintained.
• Duties may include (but not limited to) fault finding, minors repairs or installations and maintaining services and equipment within critical environments.
• You may be required to undertake tasks in disciplines other than your own.
• Ability to assess problems to determine the best course of action, this would include complex technical issues and be able to communicate technical and or complex information to various stakeholders.
• To maintain effective site log books at all NHS premises where required, ensuring that they are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

Benefits

• On‑Call allowance (rota dependent).
• Company van and tools provided.
• 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays on top).
• Access to group personal pension plan including SMART contributions into which the company will contribute up to 6% towards your savings.
• Training and development opportunities.
• NHS Bluelight discounts.

Who are we?

We are part of the NHS family with 6,000 professionals supporting over 3,000 healthcare properties across England. Our purpose is to enable excellent patient care by being the best property and facilities provider to the NHS. Our services include estate strategy and optimisation, property management, facilities management, property development and construction project management. We help support millions of patients and NHS colleagues in collaboration without 7,000 customers who range from Integrated Care Systems, health providers, charities and more. Our culture and values seek to place our NHS colleagues and their patients, at the heart of everything we do. We celebrate diversity, and we are working hard to create an inclusive environment where people love to work and can fulfil their potential. We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. Best of luck with your application!

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BTEC City & Guilds plus relevant experience and training.
• NVQ Level 3 Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Formal apprenticeship or craft trained equivalent.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Experience

• Previous experience working within a buildings maintenance environment.
• Working within the requirements of method statements or permit to work.
• Experience maintaining services to SFG20.

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.