Maintenance Supervisor (Princess of Wales Hospital)

We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.

Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.

We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed

Job overview

WIthin Cwm Taf Morgannwg, you will manage, at supervisor level, the effective, efficient and safe operation of the Health Boards mechanical, electrical and building infrastructure and associated craftsmen. Providing technical advice, training and support where necessary.

The post holder will be responsible for the undertaking of maintenance repairs, minor works and planned preventative maintenance. Supervision of a multidisciplinary team of Engineering and Building craftsmen and semi skilled staff and contract staff to ensure compliance with the Health Boards standards, policies, procedures and health and safety requirements.

Main duties of the job

There is a vacancy within the Estates Department for a Maintenance Supervisor to manage and take charge of a busy multi skilled engineering and building workforce.

The candidate will preferably have a mechanical bias but this is not essential for the role.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking risk assessments and safe systems of work for all staff and areas under their control, also annual PDR's and will be expected to work at various bases as the workload demands.

They will be required to have undertaken and successfully completed an apprenticeship in an engineering discipline with sufficient post apprenticeship experience preferably in a hospital/health care environment.

Working for our organisation

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac

Person specification

Qualifications

• Time served apprenticeship / modern apprenticeship

• ONC / HNC/ Certificate

Experience

• Significant experience within a maintenance environment, post apprenticeship

• Hospital Experience

Skills

• Good negotiation and influencing skills.

• Able to produce and interpret reports.

If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.