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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Estates Maintenance Craftsperson - Building
Accepting applications until: 05-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 05-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Harefield Hospital
- Address
- Hill End Road
- Town
- Harefield
- Postcode
- UB9 6JH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 per annum inc HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Maintenance
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
To diagnose and repair faults in carpentry, joinery and building fabric defects across
the buildings that the Trust own on the Harefield site and own or lease locally off
site. To carry out interior and exterior painting and decorating to a high standard,
either alone or working as part of a multi skilled team.
To have flexibility in working with allied materials using basic building skills, i.e. floor covering repairs, painting, wall protection, ceiling tiles. Repair bed curtain rails and bedside lockers and other ward furniture, hang pictures, mirrors etc. Manufacture and repair Fire Doors.
Repair and maintain Sash windows. Repair wooden floors that may be defective. Undertake form work for concreting. Fix signs and notice boards to wards and offices. Install kitchen units and worktops in conjunction with other trades. Manufacture and repair Fire Doors. Select and set out timber for partitioning or other wooden structures. Carry out duties of a locksmith both in fitting and maintaining magnetic, digital and mechanical locks of all types and cut, programme or supply keys for same. Repair and/or replace site boundary wooden fencing.
Carry out routine duties and Planned Preventative Maintenance of fire doors, windows, internal doors, fixtures and fittings, etc as required.
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1. To undertake planned preventative maintenance or emergency work as demanded by a Hospital of this type and use all skills and knowledge to ensure safe methods of working and to carry out maintenance tasks in a safe and cost effective way for the Trust.
2. To understand the workings of engineering services and systems and building structures in NHS/Trust premises. Ensuring that they are maintained to a high standard and that all plant and equipment are utilised in a safe and efficient manner.
3. To carry out work as requested by management/supervision using the appropriate current works electronic docket/request system and ensuring that all associated paperwork is completed as required.
4. To work as part of a departmental team and where necessary to support/assist the work of colleagues, and to be able to work with staff of all levels and disciplines throughout the trust.
5. To provide maintenance service to all Trust buildings, and off site properties and be able to work unsupervised. To have a flexible approach to the work and be able to work beyond the normal hours of duty if required and to carry out other tasks from other disciplines should circumstances so dictate.
6. To ensure work undertaken is completed in a timely manner and that appropriate records are updated through the requisite system.
For remaining duties please see attached JD
Working for our organisation
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung center in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment, and research
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Communication
Provide and receive complex information to inform Work colleagues, patients, clients and contractors with barriers to understanding.
· Patient/customer care (both direct and indirect)
Provides general advice to clients on use of equipment after repair or installation of that equipment.
· Policy & Service development
Follows policies in own role. Comment on policies relating to the department and proposes changes.
· Resource management
Responsible for installation, repair and maintenance of assets. Maintaining equipment, requisition spare parts, repair and maintenance of physical assets, property, fixtures and fittings.
Maintain all department stock levels and re-order when necessary.
· People management
Demonstrates activities to new starters. Supervises maintenance support workers.
· Information management
Complete timesheets, information of job cards, parts required to complete the job and maintenance records.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of a recognised and registered Apprenticeship in City & Guilds Certificate (NVQ Level2), Construction Industry Training Board (C.I.T.B.) or equivalent experience in Trade
- City & Guilds Accredited Fire Door Inspection Certification
Desirable criteria
- City & Guilds Craft Certificate Advanced Craft (NVQ Level3)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post apprenticeship training and be able to demonstrate competence in Building Services Maintenance, including fault finding
- Previous experience in a similar role
Desirable criteria
- good understanding of COSHH regulations
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound knowledge of carpentry and joinery including both 1st and 2nd fixing and be skilled at maintenance of same.
- Ability to read technical drawings and technical manuals
Desirable criteria
- Ability to requisition spares from catalogues
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bradley Crathern
- Job title
- Estates Officer Electrical
- Email address
- [email protected]
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