Maintenance Fitter

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job description

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will provide a mechanical service to the Engineering Department and other directorates within Guy's and St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT). They will demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by the engineering team.

Ability to organise and prioritise own workload where required and work unsupervised and independently.

The post holder will be held to account for effective performance and will need to manage and balance competing priorities.

Main duties of the job

• Carries out the responsibilities of a CP for:
• Ventilation Systems
• Confined Spaces
• When working on call have delegated responsibility for all Trust engineering assets
• Works with complex workings of all mechanical/electrical building services plant and equipment located in NHS buildings.
• Responsible for calibrating and maintaining highly specialist equipment associated with standby emergency generators and large industrial boiler plant, programmable logic controllers and other computerised building control systems
• Install, service, test, diagnose and repair mechanical/electrical plant and equipment
• Implements interruptions of engineering services in close liaison with both engineering and clinical managers
• Carries out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all of the Trust asset and engineering systems
• The duty holder (authorised person) takes responsibility for the engineering services on site whilst on duty.
• Deputises for the Team Manager in their absence
• Responsible for the personnel management when deputising for the team manager

About us

Effective management and co-ordination of all non-clinical services, within the Essentia Directorate is crucial to the Trust functioning effectively, economically and safely. The Engineering Department's management of engineering services plays a crucial contribution to this service provision. It demands a total professional approach and commitment from all Engineering staff. The role of the post holder within this crucial position is to carry out day to day maintenance of the engineering building services plant and equipment.

What We Offer

We offer a dynamic challenging job in an exciting, fast moving, flexible working environment. We have a strong commitment to your personal and professional development.

In addition, we offer excellent benefits, including:

• The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Long Term Service Awards
• Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
• A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme
• Ride to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Free stop smoking service

Our Trust values are Put patients first, Take pride in what we do, Respect others, Strive to be the best, Act with Integrity.

If you would like to join the team, please apply online.

Job responsibilities

4.2 Management and Leadership

There is a regular responsibility for ongoing training and teaching of apprentices and trainees in their core subjects, i.e., Electrical/Mechanical trade practices, and other staff specialisms, i.e., decontamination, medical gases, welding, etc.

• Coach and mentor for other junior staff, i.e., apprentices and maintenance assistants

Responsible for the installation, repair and maintenance of the building fabric, physical assets and machinery throughout the Trust.

• Accountability for appropriate use and allocation of stock issued.

Information Management

Make professional judgements involving a range of facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.

• Produces engineering plant reports using computer software, including the management and storage/retrieval of information and records.
• Reviews all capital schemes with respect to compliance and maintainability.
• Communicates technical information with specialists and non-specialists.
• Communicates technical issues to non-clinical staff in emergency situations.
• Communicates instructions, directs, mentors and guides junior staff to support their personal development.
• Works from technical specifications and drawings associated with building services plant and equipment.
• Interprets and works from instructions, drawings and specifications without supervision.
• Carries out complicated analysis of test results to ascertain if the equipment meets its operating parameters during plant annual validations.
• Ensures all policies are complied with and knowledge is translated to the staff and monitored effectively.
• Implements revised or newly introduced operational procedures for plant and equipment.

Education and Professional Development

Undertake training as and when required to obtain, maintain and develop skills and knowledge base.

• Be able to learn and adapt to new techniques, embrace training and provide written and verbal instruction to staff and colleagues on all aspects of their work.

Note:

This job description is intended as an outline of the general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of the changing needs of the organisation. To be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder.

• Staff may be asked to work reasonable additional hours (voluntary) and may be required to participate in an on-call rota (voluntary) which could necessitate them being asked to return to deal with emergency situations which could arise outside of normal working hours.
• This post will be Trust wide and may involve working on either site.
• Work independently when on-call throughout night and weekends. There is a requirement to act independently, deciding when to call independent contractors.

The post holder is required to follow Trust policies and procedures which are regularly updated including:

Confidentiality / Data Protection / Freedom of Information

Post holders must maintain the confidentiality of information about patients, staff and other health service business in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 1998. Post holders must not, without prior permission, disclose any information regarding patients or staff. If any member of staff has communicated any such information to an unauthorised person those staff will be liable to dismissal. Moreover, the Data Protection Act 1998 also renders an individual liable for prosecution in the event of unauthorised disclosure of information.

Following the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) 2005, post holders must apply the Trust's FOI procedure if they receive a written request for information.

Information Governance

All staff must comply with information governance requirements. These include statutory responsibilities (such as compliance with the Data Protection Act), following national guidance (such as the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice) and compliance with local policies and procedures (such as the Trust's Confidentiality policy). Staff are responsible for any personal information (belonging to staff or patients) that they access and must ensure it is stored, processed and forwarded in a secure and appropriate manner.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised full apprenticeship in relevant trade / NVQ level 3 / BTEC national certificate or equivalent training.
• Demonstrable experience working within this trade.
• Certified person (CP) in their current trade or associated trade.

Experience

• Experience of working on a broad range of plant and services, including air / water / gas / steam and oil / heating and cooling plant.
• Able to communicate technical information to specialists and non-specialists.
• Has good experience in health and safety and the ability to lead on this.
• Has worked in a Hospital / health care environment before.

Skills

• Knowledge of other trades and ability to work with them.
• Excellent oral and communication skills.
• Proactive, versatile and problem solving.
• Experience with Microsoft Word / Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to evaluate the needs of other colleagues.

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.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

£31,944 to £34,937 a year inc HCA + overtime payment