Mechanical Technician Property Maintenance

Band 5 Main area Mechanical Technician Property Maintenance (Estates) Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time – 37.5 hours per week (On-call requirement 1 in every five weeks.) Job ref 343-6695910-NN-FM-HM Site Trustwide Town Carshalton/Epsom Salary £34,521 – £41,956 per annum, pro rata inc HCAS (outer) Salary period Yearly Closing 30/12/2024 23:59

At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values.

Job overview

The successful applicant will have experience with complex systems and previous exposure to safe working methods, and the ability to work on a diverse range of plants. Additional training and development will be given as part of a formal training plan to ensure safe work systems are maintained at all times. This role will also require participation in the department’s on-call system to ensure that our service is delivered to our Hospital’s 24-hours a day, seven days a week. This is currently a one in six arrangement allowing for annual leave and standard working.

Main duties of the job

• The duties include highly complex fault finding and maintenance on all aspects of engineering plant and equipment throughout the Trust.
• The duties must be carried out within strict timescales and statutory guidelines.
• The post holder must participate in the pre-planned on-call rota as part of an approved structure (following suitable training).
• Planned and reactive maintenance tasks will take up a majority of this role, and an excellent all-around working knowledge of basic engineering systems is therefore essential.

Working for our organisation

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire. We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

Person specification Qualifications and Training Essential criteria

• C&G, NVQ or similar mechanical discipline

Desirable criteria

• Line management qualification, HNC or HND, Competent person, time served apprenticeship

Experience Essential criteria

• Experience of working with advanced plumbing and/or mechanical systems.
• Fault finding on mechanical with skills to isolate, keep running and fully repair.
• Experience of delivering safe water services tasks, temperature monitoring, cleaning and chlorination of taps/TMV’s and fault finding on systems.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in working within healthcare premises.
• Working with a PDA installed with CAFM, MICAD and Zetasafe.

Knowledge and Skills Essential criteria

• Sound knowledge of mechanical systems.
• In depth knowledge of the HaSaWA and other relevant acts, standards and guidance notes.
• Understanding of permit to work systems, risk assessments and good working practices.
• Ability to read and understand technical drawings and specifications.
• Knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role.
• Ability to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role.
• Able to provide a customer focused service.
• Strong team and personal organisational and time management skills to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment ensuring all paperwork, drawings and reports are correct.

Desirable criteria

• Sound knowledge in HTM, and HBNs.
• Basic understanding of asset management (PPM and reactive tasks, SFG 20).
• Qualified and certificated in IOSH Management.
• Ability to analyse complex problems and develop workable solutions to address them.

Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this – otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Disability Advice Line: SWL Recruitment Hub is committed to promoting equity and equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities. We believe that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even more positive impact on the people we serve. For support with job opportunities and reasonable adjustments contact our Confidential Disability Advice Line at: Telephone: 02082963786 Text: 07501066267

Our confidential answering service is available after 5pm.

Employer certification / accreditation badges Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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