Specialist Craftsperson Mechanical

North Tees & Hartlepool Solutions; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

North Tees & Hartlepool Solutions is seeking a self-motivated, IT-literate craftsperson with strong engineering knowledge to join the estates team at a busy hospital. The role involves fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant, day-to-day planned preventive maintenance, general repairs and energy centre checks, ensuring service continuity.

You will provide technical guidance to estates staff and contractors while acting as the Competent Person for the LV electrical distribution system,

Qualifications

• BTEC/ONC/HNC in engineering or NVQ3 in engineering preferred.
• First aid knowledge for electric shock.
• Boiler/sterilizer and disinfection equipment knowledge.
• BOAS Boiler Operator Accreditation.
• EN15883 sterilizer testing knowledge.
• Medical gas pipelines knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Install, maintain, service and repair the full range of estates equipment, plant and infrastructure.
• Provide technical advice to staff and contractors to ensure safety standards.
• Act as Competent Person for Electrical Distribution (LV) system.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

IT literate

Fault finding

Education

BTEC/ONC/HNC in Engineering

NVQ 3 in Engineering

Job description

Advert may close early if sufficient volume of applications is reached*

We are looking to recruit a self motivated, I.T. literate craftsperson with excellent Engineering knowledge to join the estates team. The post holder will be responsible for fault finding on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment. The day to day duties will include planned preventative maintenance, general repairs, Energy Centre checks and responding to high priority emergencies to ensure continuity of service in a vibrant busy hospital. North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions is a wholly owned company, entirely owned by the Trust.

For further information please contact :-

Head of Estates [phone]

Main duties of the job

To install, maintain, service and repair the full range of estates specialist equipment, plant and infrastructure.

Provides technical advice to other estates maintenance staff and contractors to ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures.

Act in the role of Competent Person, as defined by Health Technical Memorandum, for the Electrical Distribution (LV) system.

About us

NTH Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, established in April 2018 to provide estates, facilities and support services.

Our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.

At NTH Solutions we work as a team, we support each other, learn from one another and have our patients at the heart of everything we do.

We are looking to employ honest, dedicated individuals to join our team, we recruit for values and together, we are North Tees and Hartlepool.

Job responsibilities

To install, maintain, service and repair the full range of estates specialist

Provides technical advice to other estates maintenance staff and contractors to ensure compliance with safety standards and procedures.

Act in the role of Competent Person, as defined by Health Technical Memorandum, for the Electrical Distribution (LV) system.

Patient and Client Care

Infection Control:

Ensure the risk of infection to yourself, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors is minimised by:

being familiar with, and adhering to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control

attending Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control

including infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development

taking personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleagues

Person Specification

Qualifications

• oBTEC, ONC and HNC engineering. NVQ 3 in Engineering or equivalent technical qualification
• oAdequate knowledge of and within the proceeding three years training for, first aid treatment for electric shock.
• oSterilizer (Porous Load) maintenance and testing to quarterly EN285
• oBOAS Boiler Operator Accreditation Scheme
• oWasher / Disinfector quarterly EN15883
• Medical gas pipelines Water supply regs.

Experience

• Completion of a structured training program in engineering for a minimum period of 4 years.
• 2 years site experience.
• Knowledge of low pressure hot water systems, steam raising plant, pneumatic systems and hydraulics
• Experience in working in an Acute Hospital environment.

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.