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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Bank Multi-Skilled Maintenance Craftsperson
Closed for applications on: 19-Jun-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 19-Jun-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- North Tyneside
- Postcode
- NE27 0QJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Ad hoc as and when)
Salary
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 PA Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Estates
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management (NHFM) provides specialist project management, estates maintenance and a full range of facilities services. Please note that NHFML is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The successful applicant will be an employee of the subsidiary and not the NHS. Please note the terms and conditions are closely aligned to that of the NHS.
We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Multi-Skilled Maintenance Craftspeople to join our bank to work within our hospital and community sites, with shifts available n Berwick, Alnwick, Ashington, Blyth, Cramlington, North Tyneside and Hexham - you can chose shifts at sites that suit you. In return you will can offer you:
- Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
- Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
- Paid annual leave
- Pension scheme
- A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
- Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
- Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
- Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
- Option to block-book shifts in a set period
- SMS notifications of shift availability
- Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
- Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
- Free uniform, where applicable
Advert
· To provide a multi-skilled Mechanical & Electrical service provision for the Estates Department to all Client departments and Directorates
· Ability to organise and prioritise own workload, where required, and work unsupervised.
· Must demonstrate total commitment, versatility and flexibility whilst undertaking all tasks and delegated work as instructed by Operations and Project Officers and Supervisor.
· To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Working for our organisation
Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management (NHFM) covers a large geographical area, providing safe and high-quality care in both hospital and community settings. As such we need to be able to respond quickly to meet demands caused by an increase in patient activity, staff holidays or illness. This is where our staff bank plays a vital role, providing service support 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.
There are many reasons why people join the staff bank, some to supplement earnings, or to work around commitments such as childcare or studying, while others may wish to develop their skills and work experience. So, if having the flexibility to pick and choose your hours is important, then this may be your opportunity, Bank workers are expected to work a minimum of 2 shifts per month but if you want to work more you can. To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank
Please note that it is a requirement of NHFML that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certificate if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Essential to have served a recognised EITB qualification/apprenticeship, and would be desirable to have previous relevant experience of working within an Estates Healthcare environment having demonstrated total commitment to versatility and flexibility.
· Must hold/working towards a BTEC Higher National Certificate, or have an equivalent level of knowledge and experience. In addition, must also hold a BTEC/City & Guilds or equivalent in an engineering discipline.
· Experience of working on a broad range of complex life critical systems undertaking maintenance and testing of healthcare plant and equipment to all relevant standards.
· To ensure routine planned preventative maintenance (PPM) of plant and equipment is carried out to the required levels and all associated paperwork kept up to date, including ordering spare parts as required.
· To activate changeover of plant and or its safe isolation in the event of a malfunction or breakdown where instructed.
· Computer literacy and working knowledge of ESTATES Building Management System (BMS), computer I.T. skills. Data input, and computerised testing and validation equipment.
· Knowledge of procedures/ability to assemble, install and commission new work and diagnose and rectify faults on items of engineering plant, alarm systems, complex equipment and participate in design where required.
· Have experience of working on domestic heating, hot water, LPHW heating and domestic, steam systems and associated steam raising plant.
· Have some experience of 400V emergency standby alternator sets.
· To be in attendance and carry out preparation work to facilitate inspections carried out by the Trust’s pressure vessel insurers.
· To be able to work on all types of refrigeration & air-conditioning plant.
· Experience in hydraulic and pneumatic control systems.
· To interpret and work from instructions, drawings and specifications appropriate to the trade, without supervision.
· Hold, or be prepared to accept with relevant training, Competent Person (CP) responsibilities in such areas as Medical Gas Pipeline Systems (MGPS), Electrical High & Low Voltage Systems (HV/LV), Legionella; and Test Person responsibilities for Washer Disinfectors, Sterilisers and CORGI registration.
· Supervise maintenance assistants and apprentices whilst on shift involving planning and organisation of work and assessment of job.
· Ability to learn new techniques with training and instruct others on all aspects of his/her work.
· The ability to develop procedures to ensure effective and efficient working practices within the Estates Department workforce team.
· The ability to form good working relationships, and to work successfully both alone and as part of a team in order to achieve quality performance and results.
· The ability to work under pressure in order to meet tight deadlines. This may include an element of cross-site working to suit the needs of the service.
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Minimum BTEC ONC/City & Guilds in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, or have an equivalent level of knowledge and experience
- Recognised EITB Apprenticeship Mechanical & Electrical Engineering.
Desirable criteria
- BTEC HNC.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dave Ballantyne
- Job title
- Area Head of Estates & Facilities
- Telephone number
- 07887737132
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