Maintenance Craftsperson Plumber - Band 4

Job overview

Your Hospitals Need You! Not all superheroes wear capes, some are even Hospital Engineers.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are seeking a highly motivated Estates Craftsperson (Mechanical/ Plumbing Bias) who will be based at Pilgrim Hospital. The post holder is required to play a proactive part within the Estates team to meet Trust objectives in a safe, cost effective, efficient manner in compliance with legislation and good practice.

Do you have the ambition to make your hospital a better place for the community? Do you want to learn new skills and become a true rounded plumber with skills in which some areas are only specialist in the Healthcare, if this sounds like the challenge you are looking for, then apply today.

Post will commence after April 2025

• Ensure that maintenance activities are effectively recorded, signed and dated appropriately and evidence based.
• Support and encourage multi-disciplinary working.
• Encourage team working in all aspects of team focused department performance.
• Provide a role model for others to emulate, working alongside colleagues and exhibiting high standards of professional behaviour.
• Challenge traditional practice, seeking improved methods of task delivery which improve quality, safety and working practices.
• Carry out duties in a safe, clean and effective way in accordance with Trust Policies, Procedures, Legislative guidance, and best industry practice.
• Support the development of team roles through mentoring and shadowing, allowing the teams to learn from your skills.
• Maintain accurate records for reactive and planned activities.
• Excellent Communication Skills, Written and Verbal
• Work on own initiative, to act independently and seek advice as necessary within the parameters of the expected work activities able to plan, organise and manage own work activities.
• Comply with relevant policies, guidance and statutory regulations.
• Able to work to agreed timescales
• Able to drive and have a Valid full UK driving License or applicable UK approved Driving License.

Working for our organisation

We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

What should you do next?

Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. your NHS needs you!

Person specification

Specific Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills
• Versatile and flexible in approach
• Self-starter
• Physically fit
• Capable of meeting manual handling criteria
• Able to work at heights, adverse conditions i.e., Heat, dirt, and cramped conditions
• Sympathetic when working in patient proximities i.e., working in operating theatres, wards and mortuaries
• Able to cross site travel
• Provide a commitment to return to work outside of normal working hours
• Will take part in the Estates On-Call Rota
• Must have full UK driving licence for cars and access to own vehicle for work attendance
• Confident
• Imaginative outlook

Qualifications

• Appropriate City and Guilds Qualification, NVQ3 or equivalent in an Engineering/ Plumbing related discipline
• Served an apprenticeship or other recognised training.

• Focused training such as Anglian Water Approved Plumber, Air Conditioning or chilled water systems training and experience.
• Additional Hospital Engineering related certified training

Previous Experience

• Experience in the maintenance of mechanical and electrical plant and services and fault finding within a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation
• Experience of working in a similar organisation or similar size and complexity organisation
• Appreciation of other maintenance services

• Experience of maintenance in a hospital environment. In particular: Air conditioning, refrigeration, Plate Heat Exchangers, Calorifiers, Water Storage systems, Steam Boilers

Knowledge, Skills & Aptitudes

• Good understanding of electrical regulations, and associated safety procedures
• Able to diagnose faults in complicated engineering and building plant and equipment
• Able to work safely and have a sound knowledge of Health and Safety legislation in the built environment
• Demonstrable problem-solving skills
• Work co-operatively with colleagues
• Ability to work with minimum of guidance
• Good manual dexterity Logical and systematic approach to work tasks
• Exchanges maintenance, technical project-related information with specialists, non-specialists; negotiates with contractors or suppliers
• Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
• Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework

• Be able to work within a pressured environment
• Evidence of self-advancement
• Able to act efficiently taking a ‘hands on’ role in an emergency
• Imaginative outlook
• Work on own initiative
• Confident
• Management of contractors
• Experience of working in a large organisation
• Experienced in working with safe systems of work process and permits to work