Maintenance Skilled Tradesperson (Mechanical) in Chesterfield

Our people are our greatest strength and through our people we strive to make continuous improvements. We are looking for a Skilled Tradesperson with a background in heating and/or plumbing to join the Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd estates team to work within our mechanical team in the estates workshop. The workshop provides a maintenance service to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and external clients.

You will need to demonstrate strong team working skills; have good experience of working in a maintenance role and be comfortable in working to targets and working on your own. The post-holder will be required to work on the tradesperson on-call rota for which additional payments will be made on top of the stated salary. The post-holder will be required to support the building and electrical workshops as required and within the capabilities of their skills.

Main duties of the job:

• Completing all plumbing, heating and ventilation Planned Preventative Maintenance and reactive work in accordance with industry best practice and statutory requirements.
• Willing to undertake training as required to be appointed as a boiler house operator.
• Willing to undertake training as required to carry out work on the hospital’s hydrotherapy pool.
• Able to undertake cross discipline work that typically falls under building and electrical trades such as safe isolation from a rotary isolator, boarding up of a broken window when on-call, careful replacement of faulty locks etc.
• Ensuring that all work is carried out in a manner that complies with all Health and Safety legislation, HTMs and other relevant codes of practice and policies.
• To have awareness of relevant standards affecting installation work and to recognise where knowledge may be insufficient, and advice needs to be sought.
• Effectively supervising more junior staff whilst working on jobs.
• Delivering good customer service and able to always act as an ambassador for DSFS.
• Contributing to the estates on-call rota as required.
• Ensuring that the estates department delivers to its customers a service that is responsive, reliable and meets statutory and mandatory requirements.
• Dealing with any other duties as may reasonably be required - this job description should not be considered an exhaustive list.

Qualifications & Training:

• NVQ3 in Plumbing/Heating (or equivalent experience).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant post qualification training in plumbing, heating, ventilation or medical gas.

Experience:

• Able to demonstrate significant experience in working with commercial heating, plumbing and ventilation systems, both in terms of maintenance and installation work.
• Experience of working as part of a team, supervising personnel when required.
• Experience of using Computer Aided Facilities Management software to manage and complete jobs.
• Experience working as a Medical Gas, Ventilation or Water Competent Person.
• Significant heating and/or plumbing experience.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Able to utilise trade background to quickly learn new skills.
• Able to source information to understand how to correctly install materials and carry out installation work.
• Knowledgeable with regards to the statutory requirements that apply to installation work and able to find relevant information in documents when required.
• Able to use hand and power tools to produce work to an excellent standard.
• Able to read and understand engineering drawings within area of expertise.

Personal Attributes:

• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and able to determine priorities and achieve them using initiative and with minimal external input.
• Able to communicate effectively with customers in other departments and with hospital and RPC colleagues.
• Committed to continuous improvement and learning.
• Able to operate with high integrity in the work environment.
• Flexible and able to adapt to change quickly.
• Able to work tactfully to resolve difficult conversations or matters.

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services ('DSFS') is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.