Job overview The Estates department at the Scunthorpe General Hospital, has an exciting opportunity for an individual to join the onsite maintenance team.
The Estates team is a support service vital to the smooth running of the hospital. The team works behind the scenes to keep the hospital operational. The working environment is very diverse, and the equipment is highly specialised and unique to healthcare. No two days are alike and when you work within an acute hospital setting knowing that you have contributed to maintaining a positive patient environment is very rewarding.
This role is diverse. The nature of the work could see you playing a key safety role maintaining fire doors, windows, roofing, facias, soffits as well as carrying out first fix joinery and 2nd fix carpentry. The role also supports our other trades and craftsperson’s maintaining our building services infrastructure. The estate is significant, and your skills & knowledge will be utilised in assisting with the upkeep and maintenance of complex water systems, specialised heating, refrigeration & ventilation systems, complicated drainage and waste systems and specialised plant and equipment areas. Main duties of the job An Maintenance Craftsperson Carpenter / Joiner position plays a key role within the Estates Engineering Maintenance Services. The post supports the wider maintenance team in the delivery of maintenance programmes that will contribute to a safe, cost effective, efficient, and compliant hospital site.
The post holder will undertake works relating to the maintenance and repairs of Trust properties, equipment, grounds & gardens ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, health technical memorandum’s, trust policies and procedures to ensure a clean, safe and functional environment for patients, public and staff to support the delivery of patient care. The post also holds a significant patient, staff and visitor safety function maintaining the sites vast fire door and window asset portfolio. This post has an additional pay element through on call support overnight and at weekends on a rota basis throughout the year and particularly during the winter months when de-icing and snow clearing is required.
The NHS has definitive career progression pathways, training opportunities, with career advancement. There are various ways to continuously develop you and your career along with a great work life balance, teamwork and working to support your local hospital. In addition to this you will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, access to an excellent pension scheme, staff benefits including staff discount and lottery schemes. Working for our organisation Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community. Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role. Person specification Education and Qualifications Essential criteria • City & Guilds Craft Certificate or NVQ level 3 equivalent in Carpentry & Joinery
• Time served or an advanced modern apprenticeship in carpentry & Joinery. • Relevant Carpentry & Joinery construction
• Relevant Carpentry & Joinery construction experience with demonstrable experience to meet the requirements of the role.
• GCSE /Level 2 or equivalent standard in English & Maths.
• Be able to demonstrate effective standard of written & spoken english and use of mathematics.
• Computer Literate including being able to use software programmes like word, excel and outlook. Desirable criteria • Possess demonstrable knowledge of NHS procedures for the operational maintenance of acute hospital sites
• Knowledge of relevant Trust policies, health and safety and other legislation relevant to the position, such as HTM05 Fire Safety.
• Level 3 or higher leadership qualification or willing to work towards
• IOSH Working Safely
• IOSH Managing Safely
• CSCS Card. or Construction Safety Passport Occupational experience and abilities Essential criteria • Able to plan, organise and manage own work activities.
• Experience maintaining all types of doors, windows, fire doors, door closures , hold open devices with integrated fire alarm system interfacing.
• Able to accurately interpret information relating to H&S, legislation Mandatory requirements.
• Proven relevant experience of planned preventative maintenance regime in a FM or Hospital environment.
• Able to understand Risk Assessment processes and carryout work utilizing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Work Instruction (WI). Desirable criteria • Able to plan, organise and manage work related to projects, including liaison with contractors, staff and members of the public Personal Qualities Essential criteria • Able to work independently and make decisions based on analysis of information.
• Must be able to demonstrate a clear understanding of core trust values and be able to articulate in practice.
• Excellent effective communicator, using verbal, oral or written skills.
• Able to organise and prioritise workloads.
• Proactive approach to learning and developing new skills in order to meet service demands and changes (CPD) Desirable criteria Able to develop and create drawings, reports, documents either using IT or manually Employer certification / accreditation badges
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