Engineer (Ingatestone)

Facilities Engineer – Plumbing

Springfield Hospital – Chelmsford

Full Time – 37.5 hours per week

Springfield Hospital is one of Essex’s leading private hospitals with an excellent reputation for delivering high quality private hospital treatments and services. The hospital opened on this site in 1987 and currently has 49 bedrooms including three twin-bedded rooms all with en-suite facilities to ensure complete privacy throughout your stay.

The role

We have an exciting opportunity for a multi-skilled Facilities Engineer to join our hardworking and committed facilities team. You will be an expert in plumbing and heating in addition to having skills in other trade services and will work as part of a team to deliver maintenance services to the hospital units. Predominantly based at Springfield Hospital, the successful Facilities Engineer will provide support and assistance to Oaks Hospital in Colchester and have a basic knowledge of Eastern Sterile Services Centre in Braintree to assist in an emergency. You will participate in an on-call rota working 1 week in 5 where you will need to be available to support Springfield and Oaks. There is an enhancement rate payable for any on-call duties.

What you will bring

• City & Guilds Qualifications or equivalent (for example: Plumbing – C&G 6035, Craft, C&G 6189, Plumbing and Heating and C&G 3345 water regs and unvented systems)
• Full driver’s license and access to a car is essential
• Previous Hospital Facilities experience is desirable
• Logical and practical approach to challenging situations whilst always putting the safety of Patients and colleagues at the forefront of everything

If you are looking for your next move and want to join a friendly team with a real sense of community within the working environment, then look no further.

Benefits:

• 25 Days Leave + Bank Holidays
• Private Pension
• On-site parking if applicable
• Enhanced Competitive Parental Leave Policies
• Private Medical Cover with option to add partner & dependants
• Life Insurance – 3 X Salary
• Free Training and Development via the Ramsay Academy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle2Work scheme available, in partnership with Halfords
• The Blue Light Card Scheme

About Us:

Ramsay Health Care UK is a well-established global hospital group with over 50 years’ experience. We are a global provider operating in 8 countries, with 88,000 staff who treat 8 million patients each year. It is well respected within the healthcare industry and is one of the leading providers of independent hospital services in England. We are well known for our strong, long-standing relationship with the NHS.

We love people with a positive, “can do” attitude who want to make a difference in their work. Our employees are Ramsay. The skills and commitment of our employees forms the basis for our success. We are able to support training and development to our employees, to deliver a high standard of clinical care whilst ensuring patient safety, dignity and confidentiality. We are a progressive and caring facility and support the Ramsay vision “People caring for People”. We know our people are our greatest asset, our business is growing and we would like you to join us.

We are proud of our ‘Speak Up for Safety’ programme and ensure that the patient is at the heart of everything we do. Join us and have more ‘Time to Care’. We care. It’s more than what we do, it’s who we are. Everything we do is about striving to deliver the best care. And it’s a belief that’s as true today as it was when we welcomed our first patients in 1964.

“The Ramsay Way” culture recognises that our people are our most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success. We are proud to support the UK’s Armed Forces and Reservists and have already achieved the Silver Award as part of the MOD’s Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. The scheme recognises employers who actively support Defence while encouraging other organisations to adopt the same behaviours in their workplace. As a company we are committed to supporting the wider Armed Forces community and this includes our staff as well as our patients.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. This position is subject to background and DBS checks.