Engineering Tradesperson – (Core Trade Electrical)

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

Cwm Taf Morgannwg are seeking an Engineering Tradesperson (core electrical) to join our Estates team supporting the Prince Charles Hospital to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for our patients, visitors and staff.

This role will attract shift and on call allowances.

We are looking for a skilled individual with a track record of carrying out maintenance tasks to the appropriate levels of quality required, the ability to diagnose and repair faults, and to calibrate a range of engineering plant and equipment.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

To provide a safe and comfortable environment for patients, staff and visitors by:

• Providing multi-skilled engineering expertise across various electrical and mechanical equipment and fabric.
• Ensuring all essential services are maintained to support clinical departments in their prime task of treating patients whilst ensuring all statutory legislation is complied with.
• Ensure maintenance tasks are fulfilled to appropriate levels of quality in a compliant manner.
• Perform engineering maintenance work including activities, which are complex and/or non-routine.
• Responsible for fault diagnosis, repair and calibration on a wide range of engineering plant and equipment.
• Maintenance and repair on a range of Industrial, Commercial, Domestic, and Plant equipment.

Typical areas of work include:

• Power/Lighting circuits
• Low voltage switchgear
• Fire alarm systems
• Emergency Generators and associated switchgear
• Battery systems and uninterruptable power supplies
• Air conditioning equipment and controls, including theatre handling units
• Heating controls, boiler controls and associated equipment
• Lift release
• Portable equipment
• Nurse call and cardiac arrest systems
• Catering equipment
• Medical vacuum and compressed air plant

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

• Completed an accredited Electrical apprenticeship training course to a minimum level 3 vocational qualification or equivalent plus relevant training or equivalent experience, plus additional training and developed skills e.g. air conditioning

• Evidence of significant CPD

Knowledge

• High level of knowledge and understanding of electrical/ mechanical services/systems and a working knowledge of other associated trades. Familiarity with approved guidance documents

• JIB Registration

Experience

• Experience with Fire Alarm Systems Generators Lifts BMS engineering maintenance Completion of a structured training programme

• Previous experience of working within the NHS

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.