Community Maintenance Staff - Mechanical

The role will support the delivery of a safe and effective mechanical and general maintenance service across 13 community sites, and at the acute hospital site when required. You will carry out the repair, maintenance or installation of all plant, equipment, systems and building structure/fabric associated with all Trust properties. This will consist of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), testing and calibration, fault finding, emergency response, defect correction and New works.

Required to have excellent communication skills, ensuring good working relationships are maintained with Estates Department staff at all levels and other staff disciplines internal and external to the department in the course of carrying out their duties. Must possess training skills to undertake the training and/or instruction and evaluation of users of job specific systems and equipment. Be capable of explaining operational and technical issues to estates staff and trainees, clinical/nursing staff, departmental managers and patients in respect of ward and department building and engineering systems and equipment. To have completed a recognised trade apprenticeship and hold a BTEC HNC/diploma in Engineering or equivalent City and Guilds qualification with practical and professional theoretical engineering knowledge acquired through a diploma plus significant equivalent experience in their specialist field. Must complete recognised Btec Hospital Competent Persons accredited courses, and be appointed in writing, for work on Specialist healthcare systems as required.

Required to complete specialist accreditation courses for some of the following:

• IEEE Wiring Regulations
• Inspection and Testing
• Portable appliance testing
• Pressure Systems
• L114 Safe Use of Woodworking Machinery
• HTM Authorised Person in appropriate discipline
• Electrical
• Ventilation
• Decontamination
• Medical Gases
• Water Systems

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.