Painter & Decorator

NHS; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust seeks a skilled Painter & Decorator to join their Estates team. The role involves providing high-quality painting and decorating services within healthcare settings, ensuring safety and maintenance while adhering to regulations. This position offers a full-time contract with competitive salary and benefits, promoting sustainability and staff wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Recognized apprenticeship in painting & decorating to NVQ level 3 or equivalent.
• Experience in a maintenance environment and working at height.
• Adequate training for PASMA and other relevant qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Provide painting and decorating service within healthcare premises.
• Deliver planned maintenance and repair services.
• Work autonomously managing decorating workloads and resources.

Skills

Painting and Decorating

Maintenance

Safety Regulations

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Painting & Decorating

Job description

Go back North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Painter & Decorator

The closing date is 20 June 2025

We are looking to recruit a Painter & Decorator to work within our Estates team, working full time 37.5 hours per week.

Band 4, £25,147 - £27,596 plus enhanced pay for on-call and overtime.

The Estates Team is part of the Corporate Directorate and supports all Directories in the Trust. We consists of approximately 25 staff and are a reactive service with frontline staff. The Facilities Team are much wider and work in conjunction with the Estates Team.

Main duties of the job

To provide a painting and decorating service within healthcare premises including maintenance ofexisting building fabric and full re-decorating works (lifecycle), to meet the needs of the Trust, byoperating an efficient and effective Estates Service within the Trusts healthcare facilities to ensurethe safe delivery of patient care; by

• Delivering a planned maintenance, repair & installations service which always represents quality and value for money.
• Providing a safe maintenance service to all building\construction related infrastructure.
• Assisting in the development of the Estates function into a customer focused range of services.
• Adopting a flexible, integrated working approach to the delivery of Estates Service

To work autonomously with estates colleagues, effectively organising and managing the decorating workload and resources with due regard to management requirements. To be prepared and willing to undertake other associated works as required.

About us

As a Trust, we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a painting and decorating service within healthcare premises including maintenance of existing building fabric and full re-decorating works (lifecycle), to meet the needs of the Trust, by operating an efficient and effective Estates Service within the Trusts healthcare facilities.
• Delivering a planned maintenance, repair & installations service which always represents quality and value for money.
• Providing a safe maintenance service to all building\construction related infrastructure.
• Assisting in the development of the Estates function into a customer focused range of services.
• Adopting a flexible, integrated working approach to the delivery of Estates Service.
• To work autonomously with estates colleagues, effectively organising and managing the decorating workload and resources with due regard to management requirements. To be prepared and willing to undertake other associated works as required.
• Apply the highest standards of painting and decorating in the process of maintaining, refurbishing and new build of a modern, complex health estate both internally and externally, under COSHH Regulations.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own resources and materials by reference to Estates Department standards through direct consultation with Estates management and the customer while working independently with appropriate management support and where necessary reschedule prevailing work to meet local service demands.
• Interpret and work from all instructions, drawings, and specifications appropriate to this trade, without supervision
• Painting and decorating all Trust property, internally and externally, to acceptable craft standards and using approved methods of working
• Assist and support other trade staff and contractors, as necessary.
• Transportation, erection, dismantling and use of scaffolding and access equipment as required under PASMA qualification/training, working from height as a major factor.

Person Specification

• Served a recognised apprenticeship in painting & decorating to NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience
• Experience of working in a maintenance environment
• Experience of working at height & PASMA
• Supporting evidence of any other relevant building services qualification
• Previous experience of working in healthcare environment
• Other relevant training

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

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust

Address

£27,458 to £30,162 a yearper annum. Enhanced pay for on-call and overtime

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

232-COR-6958501-A

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