Healthcare Engineering Specialist Technician Apprentice

Job summary

We are offering an exciting collaborative opportunity to be part of the future modern healthcare estate maintenance service across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, delivering suitable, sustainable and compliant hospitals, clinics and health associated buildings accompanied by their embedded engineering and technology systems with the principal aim of ensuring safe access and use by patients, staff and local communities.

Healthcare Estates is a unique and constantly evolving space and offers diverse opportunities to learn and develop your career supported and mentored by experienced engineers and managers in a world-renowned service environment.

If you have a passion for the practical world and problem solving and want to influence the future of the built environment, where better than the NHS?

Solent NHS Trust are working collaboratively with Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to recruit two apprentices working across either of their sites. Please indicate in your personal statement whether you have a preference of which Trust you would like to be considered for. Applicants will be interviewed jointly by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and a decision regarding work base will be made upon successful application and interview.

Main duties of the job

This opportunity provides a 4-year apprenticeship learning programme with either a mechanical or electrical primary bias, graduating ultimately at NVQ 3 level with supporting BTEC technical certification. Upon completion you will achieve estate specialist technician competencies in a multi-disciplinary maintenance role with skills and knowledge transferrable across the entire NHS.

The apprenticeship will cover a variety of established engineering and building maintenance techniques used across the existing estate but will also adopt innovation and current thinking as the NHS works to align with its 2040 Net Zero Carbon target threshold.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.