Building Craftsperson

Overview

The successful applicant\’s primary duties will be to mostly undertake building and minor improvement tasks across the Trust\’s properties and for its contracted customers, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.

The Estates Department is looking for a Building Craftsperson (carpentry bias) with a background preferably gained in a building services or healthcare environment. Works will also include minor painting tasks, lock maintenance and drainage clearance and inspections.

Responsibilities

• Undertake building and minor improvement tasks across the Trust\’s properties and for contracted customers, ensuring compliance with Trust safety standards and procedures.
• Carry out carpentry-related maintenance and repairs as part of the Building Craftsperson role.
• Assist with minor painting tasks, lock maintenance and drainage clearance and inspections.

Qualifications and requirements

• Must have the physical ability and agility to carry out manual handling.
• Must have a current full UK driving license.
• Additional training will be provided for a successful applicant where they do not fully meet the person specification.
• Happy to Talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Other information

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
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• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.
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Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire. Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.