Senior Electrical Craftsperson

The post holder will be responsible as the senior and lead electrical craftsperson within the in-house electrical maintenance team and to liaise and or coordinate directly with electrical contractors in the day to day running of the Estates service delivery within the Mile End Hospital and or Royal London Hospital Retained Estates within Barts Health Estates & Facilities Services. Under direction of the Estates Supervisor and or Estates Manager ensure all buildings, plant and equipment are electrically serviced and maintained throughout Mile End Hospital and or Royal London Hospital Retained Estate in accordance with Statutory & Mandatory requirements in a timely manner. Including Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) and Reactive Maintenance (RM), minor works, major overhauls and replacement. In addition, the Senior Electrical Craftsperson will be required to be a self-starter who is able to work on his/her own initiative.

Main duties of the job:

• Lead the estates electrical team and maintenance contractors to ensure statutory, critical and routine tasks are completed, recorded, and fully documented for the Estates Management Team.
• Support the in-house electrical team and contractors by ensuring adequate spares and materials are available for efficient completion of works.
• Implement improvement plans where poor performance is identified within the electrical team, escalating concerns to the Estates Supervisor or Estates Manager if progress is not achieved.
• Review completed electrical works to ensure quality, timeliness and cost-effectiveness, addressing any issues directly with staff or contractors.
• Provide technical support and leadership to resolve electrical faults.
• Promote and uphold health and safety requirements for staff, patients, visitors and contractors through safe systems of work, site inductions, and risk/COSHH assessments.
• Work with the Estates Supervisor or Estates Manager, alongside the BHT contract performance team, to support effective auditing and ensure full compliance in delivering Trust electrical services across in-house and PFI/outsourced provision.
• Ensure adherence to all relevant legislation, safety alerts, HTMs, NBNs, safe systems of work, approved codes of practice, and associated policies.

About us:

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers. The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients. Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together. We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities:

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.

Qualifications:

• To have served a recognised apprenticeship in an electrical engineering discipline or have equivalent experience.
• Qualified with Electrical ONC and or HNC level of education and or equivalent qualification.
• A good working knowledge of Health & Safety principles within electrical engineering and building systems.
• Knowledge of electrical maintenance to meet relevant HTM 06.01 and HTM 06.02 standard.

Experience:

• In depth experience of healthcare electrical building services and to lead on the maintenance of the electrical team.
• Detailed working knowledge of preventative and reactive electrical maintenance and associated HTM.
• Experience of allocating planned and reactive work to the in-house electrical team and contractors.
• Experience of successfully leading an electrical team and contractors to meet agreed outcomes.
• Understanding Standing Financial Instructions in relation to procurement and commissioning of external contracting services.
• Knowledge of information systems for the management of maintenance activity (Concept CAFM System).

Skills:

• Ability to lead and motivate Estates electrical team.
• Able to work on own initiative and within a team.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Supporting the electrical team and organisation through environmental change and impact through legislative and organisational impact.
• Ability to provide advice to service end users, on a wide range of maintenance issues.
• Ability to maximise the use of allocated resources in the achievement of set objectives.

Other:

• Good inter-personnel skills, managing an electrical team and individuals.
• Good influencing and motivation skills.
• Able to work under pressure and meet demanding deadlines.
• Ability to build relationships with all staff groups.
• Proven performance orientated and customer focused measured service delivery.
• Ability to present service developments to Estates management.
• Ability to deal with complaints and resolve difficult service related matters.

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.